The government has decided to send Tk 25,000 as “subsidy” for the hotel quarantine fee for Saudi Arabia-bound migrant workers to their bank accounts.

The government has revoked the state gallantry awards of four convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A Dhaka court today rejected bail petitions of five university students and sent them to jail in connection with a case filed for possessing the hallucinogenic drug LSD.

The Health Directorate has decided to test Covid-19 samples of Bangladeshi citizens going abroad at the Bangladesh Army Stadium from now.

Despite repeated assurances from the authorities concerned on ending waterlogging, parts of Chattogram city witnessed severe waterlogging today as in previous years.

The medical board -- of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) -- formed for physical check-up of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who suffered in custody from May 2 to May 4 last year, did not find any signs of torture.

Multiple critical embankments in Koyra upazila are damaged because of Cyclone Yaas' impact, leaving thousands of people waterlogged. As there were no immediate and effective initiatives from the administration, the locals themselves are now working hard to repair those embankments.

BTRC has fixed the maximum tariff for broadband internet connection today. A customer now has to pay Tk 500 a month for using a broadband connection with a minimum internet speed of 5 Mbps.

Thirty-eight 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).

Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general (planning and development) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today made an official visit to Chapainawabganj amid alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the district.

Seventeen more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Thakurgaon district in 24 hours, till this morning -- showing a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.

Two cousins died after lightning hit them in the front yard of their house in Feni.

A senior Awami League lawmaker came down heavily on the government in the parliament for corruption and money laundering in the country.

Residents in Kurigram’s Bajra union now below poverty line after losing all to erosion by Teesta river.

The head of Israel’s domestic security service issued a rare warning of possible violence during one of the most politically charged periods in decades, with the country on the verge of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its longest serving leader.

An explosion near a petrol station in the Yemeni city of Marib killed at least 12 people on Saturday, a medical source said.

Gas supply will remain suspended for four hours -- from 1:00pm to 5:00pm -- at different areas in Dhaka today.

The first cruise ship to leave Venice since coronavirus restrictions were eased set sail on Saturday, but some local residents protested over the return to normal, unhappy about the passage of giant liners through the historic lagoon city.

Thousands of Hungarians, some of them holding banners declaring "Treason", protested on Saturday against a Chinese university's plans to open a campus in Budapest.

Both Amazon and Facebook will fall under new proposals for a global minimum corporation tax agreed by the Group of Seven on Saturday, United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.