A ten-year-old boy was killed today after an auto-rickshaw hit his bicycle in Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area.

A man has been arrested in Rajbari’s Goalanda for allegedly trying to rape his step-daughter, an eighth grader.

A Russian court ordered Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be kept in jail after rejecting an appeal against his detention, a decision that Navalny called predictable.

A Dhaka court today sentenced seven people, including a former deputy managing director (DMD), of then Oriental Bank (now named ICB Islamic Bank Ltd) to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed over embezzling of Tk 1.61 crore.

The High Court today cleared the way for the lower court concerned to resume the trial proceedings against two sons of Partex Group’s former chairman MA Hashem and six former officials of Rajuk in a corruption case filed on charge of illegally obtaining land in Purbachal.

Europe’s fight to secure Covid-19 vaccine supplies sharpened when Britain demanded that it receive all the shots it paid for after the European Union asked AstraZeneca to divert supplies from the UK.

Three Dhaka University teachers have been demoted on charge of plagiarism in their research papers.

Kuwait’s Criminal Court today sentenced Bangladeshi lawmaker Kazi Shahidul Islam Papul to four years in jail, reports Kuwaiti newspaper Alqabas.

China toughened its language towards Taiwan, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that “independence means war” and that its armed forces were acting in response to provocation and foreign interference.

Terming the latest Chattogram City Corporation election a model of polls irregularities, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder said the authorities concerned need to find a way out to hold future elections in a more fair and credible manner.

Two workers were killed when an under-construction wall collapsed on them at Deundi Tea Garden in Habiganj's Chunarughat this afternoon.

Bangladesh today sought flexibilities in the visa regime and urged India to ease registration requirements for Bangladeshi patients going for treatment at various hospitals in India, at the second consular dialogue between Bangladesh and India held in New Delhi.

Mayor-elect to Chattogram City Corporation Rezaul Karim Chowdhury today said the polls were held in a “free and fair environment” except for a few isolated incidents.

I took the first shot of the vaccine today at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

Over 850 Rohingyas have left for Chattogram from Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia refugee camp today. They are among around 3,000 Rohingyas who are set to be relocated to Noakhali’s Bhasan Char tomorrow.

A mobile court of the Department of Environment (DoE) in Rangpur has demolished seven illegal brick kilns in two upazilas of Rangpur.

India said on Thursday it had curbed an increase in Covid-19 infections, with a fifth of its districts reporting no new cases for a week, even as its immunisation campaign has covered 2.4 million people.

Bangladesh Awami League’s initiative “Career Workshop” has attracted the country’s youth and has been receiving a huge response since its inauguration on January 9.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today emphasised on the implementation of the (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) BIMSTEC Master Plan for transport connectivity for the greater benefit of this region.

Some “aggrieved” journalists publish “incorrect” news over public hassles while availing services regarding national identity card, Law Minister Anisul Huq informed the parliament today.