A new survey by South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) and ActionAid Bangladesh conducted on four selected districts found that digital devices required to participate in online education was absolutely unavailable for 70.35 percent of students in Kurigram.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today said three people suspected to be Rohingya robbers were killed in a gunfight with Rab members at Shalbagan Hill near a Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Noted columnist, researcher and writer Syed Abul Maksud today breathed his last at Square Hospital in Dhaka. He was 74.

A man died today in a landslide while he was allegedly cutting a hill on his own land in Ramgarh upazila under Khagrachhari.

An elderly couple marked their 66th marriage anniversary with a ceremonial wedding function in a remote village of Biral upazila of Dinajpur.

A Dhaka court today asked the complainant to withdraw a sedition case filed against four people including Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist and Netra News Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil and Hungary-based entrepreneur Zulkarnain Saer Khan alias Sami over Al Jazeera’s report titled "All the Prime Minister's Men".

Twenty-four Bangladeshis returned home through Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf border today after serving jail for different terms in Myanmar.

Police arrested two youths on charge of rape in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila this morning.

Thailand may scrap its two-week mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors with proof of Covid-19 vaccination as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to revive its pandemic-hit tourism industry, according to an article published on Bloomberg.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines got a new managing director and CEO as the government today appointed Dr Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal in the post.

About 60 acres of crop land in Sohagpur village has been submerged as a dam on a canal collapsed in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria today.

Australian High Commissioner in Dhaka today said his government has taken the decision to amend the existing policy and lift the ban on operating cargo flights to the country.

Afghanistan began its first Covid-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, administering doses initially to security force members, health workers and journalists, in a campaign that may face challenges from a sharp rise in violence.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said 155 buses would run under a single company on the proposed Kanchpur Bridge-Ghatarchar pilot route in the capital.

Malaysia’s immigration department said on Tuesday (Feb 23) it had carried out a repatriation programme involving 1,086 Myanmar nationals, despite an earlier court order staying the deportation.

Three garment factories - Kwun Tong Apparels Limited of Adamjee EPZ, Lenny Fashions Limited and Lenny Apparels Limited of Dhaka EPZ -- that had shut down due to Covid-19 pandemic – have paid dues to their workers.

BNP today alleged that the government is making a list of “fake” freedom fighters, comprising of Awami League supporters and their relatives who did not take part in the Liberation War in 1971.

Body of a three-year-old boy was recovered from a rooftop water tank in Dhaka’s Shyampur area this morning.

Eighteen people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In accordance with the recent decision by the education ministry, Dhaka University dormitories will not open and no major examinations will be held before May 17, VC Professor Akhtaruzzaman said today.