Cyber police have arrested a youth from Dhaka’s Mugda area on charge of child pornography for allegedly blackmailing an Indian minor by threatening to leak her videos online.

Vandals have targeted the homes of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with graffiti, fake blood and a pig's head, US media said.

A Dhaka court today again asked the ACC to submit by February 16 the probe reports of two graft cases filed against Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and several others over misappropriating Tk 4.22 crore from two banks.

The High Court today directed the Department of Environment (DoE) to lodge a case against 30 washing plants in Keraniganj area in 30 days for polluting the water of Buriganga river in the area.

State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali today said that no decision has been taken to suspend air communication with any country.

Twenty-seven people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The birth of a baby is a wonderful and very complex process. Many physical and emotional changes occur for both mother and baby. A baby must make many physical adjustments to life outside the mother's body. Leaving the uterus means that a baby can no longer depend on the mother's blood supply and placenta for important body functions. Before birth, the baby depends on functions from the mother which include breathing, eating, elimination of waste, and immunity.

India's drugs regulator today approved Serum Institute’s Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the country’s first indigenous jab, for restricted emergency use, paving the way for their roll-out soon.

Seven people, including a newborn, were killed when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, drug abuse, gang activities and repression of women and children.

The High Court today granted bail to a union parishad member in a case filed for gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj in September last year.

Stock market surged 190 points, or 3.50 percent, within three hours of trading today thanks to the news of approval of Covid-19 vaccine in India.

At least 464 people were killed and 513 were injured in 402 road accidents throughout the country in December last year, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation.

Police have rescued a school student -- who was abducted from Dharla River shoal area of Banagram village under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila on December 16 -- from a house in Chattogram last night.

Four mega projects including Padma Bridge and Dhaka's metro rail will open to public by June next year, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.

An elderly man died after being hit by a train in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.

Saudi Arabia has announced to resume all international flights from 11:00 am today, amid strict precautions against the new Covid-19 strain.

A huge fire that broke out at Konka Electronics factory in Narayanganj's Sonargaon area this morning is now under control.

A man’s body was recovered from the Buriganga river last night, four days after he went missing from Narayanganj Sadar.

Mexican authorities said they are studying the case of a 32-year-old female doctor who was hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.