The Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi Zilla Parishad Md Nuruzzaman has been released from Chapainawabganj jail today eleven days after he was detained because he was carrying banned phensidyl in a government vehicle.

Awami League candidate Kaziul Islam has been elected unofficially in the Kurigram municipality election.

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Authorities in India’s northern state of Punjab are investigating whether protesting farmers were disrupting power supply to hundreds of telecom towers amid protests over new farm laws.

Department of Environment (DoE) today fined 13 businesses including two shipbreaking yards Tk 10.12 lakh for violating the Environment Conservation Act.

A Saudi court sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison in a trial that has drawn international condemnation as Riyadh faces renewed US scrutiny.

The brother and nephew of former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha today testified in a case against him and 10 others for allegedly embezzling Tk four crore from the then Farmers Bank and laundering the money abroad.

The Committee for the Protection of Fundamental Rights today demanded transparency and accountability in the procurement and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

Chairman of JKG Healthcare Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury has sought bail from the High Court in a case filed on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

The supporters of a councillor candidate of Dhamrai municipal elections staged demonstrations today bringing allegations of vote irregularities and rigging in a polling centre.

A photo of an under-construction hanging bridge at Nafakhum waterfall, a popular tourist attraction in Bandarban district, has gone viral on social media, with netizens protesting the “development”, claiming that it is detrimental to the natural beauty of the area.

Department of Environment (DoE) (Chattogram region) demolished five illegal brick kilns in Chattogram’s Fatikchari upazila today.

China expressed anger on Monday after US President Donald Trump signed into law measures to further bolster support for Taiwan and Tibet, which had been included in a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package.

A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged.

A total of 1,776 Rohingyas, including women and children, are going to Bhasan Char in the second phase from camps in Cox’s Bazar today.

Twenty-seven 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).

Incoming passengers from the UK will have to stay in institutional quarantine for 14 days.

Another 161 passengers from the United Kingdom landed in Bangladesh today amid the spread of a new strain of Covid-19 in that country.

Another 250kg bomb was found buried at the construction site of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport's 3rd terminal today.

French Ambassador to Bangladesh Jean-Marin Schuh and Project Officer-in-charge of the water and sanitation sector of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Dhaka Fanny Nesen have visited the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) headquarters.