Prof Abdul Bari resigned from the post of registrar, Rajshahi University, today.

This year saw more incidents of rape and violence against women than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated that the government will not allow reopening of educational institutions unless the COVID-19 situation improves -- for the sake of students’ and teachers' safety.

The two city corporations of Dhaka today officially took charge from Wasa to maintain 26 canals and 10km box culverts with the hope to reduce the city’s long-standing waterlogging issue.

Awami League’s Faridpur town unit organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Haroon Mandal was shown arrested today in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Road communication of Pabna with 22 districts has been suspended since this morning following an indefinite transport strike.

Indian authorities clamped night curfew and other curbs in Delhi and Mumbai cities and Odisha state to prevent public gatherings for New Year celebrations in order to check the spread of Covid-19.

Two operatives of the banned group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh (Huji) were arrested with a huge amount of books on Jihadi philosophy in Rajshahi city yesterday.

Speakers at a discussion urged for necessary steps to protect all remaining open waterbodies and reclaim lost ones in Sylhet city area for a better and sustainable environment-friendly future.

Mongla Port Authority yesterday signed a deal with a Chinese company to dredge the inner bar of the Mongla Port channel to allow the anchoring of container ships with 10-metre draught.

Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.

A sub-inspector of police was killed after a vehicle hit his motorcycle in Dhaka airport area last night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina donated Tk 10 crore to Dhaka Shishu Hospital to provide free treatment to the children who are born with cardio diseases.

61pc of project funds misappropriated: TIB report

Returning officer of Savar municipality Md Munir Hossain Khan today asked local journalists to avoid writing all kinds of negative news regarding upcoming Savar municipality elections.

Police arrested three Jubo League activists in Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur in a case filed against them for assaulting a medical officer, nurse and an office assistant during the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination programme.

Amid the coronavirus situation, the government will hand over new books -- free of cost -- to about 4.5 crore students at the beginning of the new year.

With an aim to reach policing at the peoples’ doorstep and lessen the gap between plaintiff and police, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) today introduced a Short Message Service (SMS) based complaint and response management system.

Prof Lutfar Kader Lenin, joint director of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, died with Covid-19 today.

Radwan Mujib Siddiq, trustee of the Centre for Research and Information (CRI), has pointed out people’s reluctance in wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing, and encouraged all to maintain those mandatory rules reminding them that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet.