President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day, just as Democrat Joe Biden takes the oath of office in an ever-more-extraordinary end to the defeated president’s tenure in the White House.

Around mid-February in 2019, a Bangladesh Biman pilot felt something hit his aircraft while taking off from Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Consumer rights groups and business operators today demanded an end to the government's interference in the price fixing process of liquified petroleum gas (LPG).

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said Bangladesh has the capacity to preserve 14 to 15 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses.

Bangladeshi-American Zayn Siddique has been named by President-elect Joe Biden for a key position in the office of the White House deputy chief of staff.

The High Court today directed the Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Tribunal of Chandpur to send a 17-year-old girl and her two-and-a-half-month-old daughter from a safe home in Tongi to her husband Kamal Uddin.

All trial proceedings of lower courts in Dhaka were suspended today due to the death of Dhaka District and Sessions Judge's Court Public Prosecutor Khandaker Abdul Mannan.

The squalid and oppressive conditions imposed on some 600,000 Rohingya have amounted to crimes against humanity of persecution, apartheid, and severe deprivation of liberty, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday.

Most of the accused of 25 rape cases, filed between 2012 and 2016, are out on bail though bail is not applicable for punishable offence under Women and Children Repression Act 2000, according to findings by Manusher Jonno Foundation.

Six more foreign airlines -- Garuda Indonesia, Korean Air, Iran Air, Iraqi Airways and two airlines from India -- have expressed interest to operate flights to Dhaka due to favourable regulatory policy, vibrant market and high profitability.

Direct train services from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar will be launched by December next year, Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan said today.

The second impeachment of President Donald Trump by the US House of Representatives, for inciting last week’s deadly rampage at the Capitol, could set off a bitter Senate fight that entangles the early days of President-elect Joe Biden’s term.

The government has not only contained militancy but is also working to bring militants back to a normal life, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.

Miscreants have damaged 11 idols in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj.

The first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, produced by Serum Institute of India (SII), will reach Dhaka on January 25 or 26, health minister Zahid Maleque said this afternoon.

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

Two people were held in connection with the gang-rape of a teenager in Lalmonirhat’s Sadar upazila this afternoon.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today, seeking its order on the government to amend the relevant law treating the violation of males as rape.

Police recovered the body of councillor candidate Alamgir Khan Babu, of ward-8 under Jhenidah's Shailakupa upazila, hours after brother of the rival candidate was hacked to death last night.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has so far frozen around Tk 1,058 crore in accounts of 62 persons in connection with Tk 10,000 crore allegedly laundered by Proshanta Kumar Halder and his associates.