Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the government has taken an initiative to upgrade nearly 20 kilometers (Gabtoli to Nabinagar) of Dhaka-Aricha highway from four-lane to 10-lane.

An elderly woman and her daughter were killed allegedly by her son-in-law in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila today.

A Chattogram court today granted two-day remand for six members of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested in a case for abducting a man from Anowara and extorting money and threatening to kill him.

A Bogura court today sentenced two people to death and three others to life in prison in a case filed for killing a youth at a temple in Shajahanpur upazila in 2016.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today rejected the claim by opposition Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during his visit to Visva Bharati in Bolpur last month.

Horseshoe bats carrying coronaviruses very similar to the one that causes Covid-19 have been found outside China, so the pandemic may not necessarily have originated in the country, say scientists in a new study.

A Hungarian opposition radio station lost an appeal against the removal of its licence today, cutting by one the already dwindling ranks of media outlets critical of the country’s nationalist government.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh and a joint venture of Changjiang Yichang Waterway Engineering Bureau (CYWEB) and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) today signed a deal on the expansion of Cox’s Bazar Airport’s runway.

The High Court today issued a status quo on the termination of three teachers of Khulna University (KU).

A Joypurhat court today sentenced a man to life in prison in a case filed for raping a child in 2015.

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki today inaugurated a training course at Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre (BKTTC) for returning female migrant workers without the certainty of an income source, who were forced to come back to Bangladesh when the pandemic broke out last year.

A Dhaka court today placed Ashim Kumar Mistry, nephew of PK Halder's lawyer Sukumar Mridha, on a three-day remand in a case filed over amassing and laundering Tk 20.7 crore.

Customs Intelligence officials today arrested 8 US-Bangla Airlines employees after recovering 60 gold bars from a flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Johnson & Johnson is interested in manufacturing its COVID-19 vaccine in India, a government official told a news conference on Tuesday.

The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organization team has concluded, an expert said Tuesday as the group wrapped up a visit to explore the origins of the virus.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today directed the National Board of Revenue (NBR) not to demand or collect any income tax from private universities across the country until further orders.

A court in Pabna today sentenced a man and his son to death and three others to life term imprisonment for killing a youth in the district town in 2008.

A court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing a technician in Kurigram's Roumari upazila in 2010.

Indian authorities should investigate and prosecute newly alleged abuses by its Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border, said Human Rights Watch in a statement today.

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