The High Court today stayed for six months the education ministry's decision to remove the name of late president Ziaur Rahman from the titles of two high schools in Bogura.

Three people including two teenage boys were killed as a truck hit a motorcycle they were on in Ghatail upazila of Tangail this morning.

A bus helper has been arrested in a case filed over attempt to rape in a moving bus in Sunamganj.

The Saudi Arabian government today said citizens of other countries will be able to leave the country from now on by air.

A journalist was assaulted, allegedly by a presiding officer, when he went to cover municipality elections at a centre in Dhamrai today.

An employee of a non-government organisation at Benapole land port was found dead early today.

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” her lawyer said.

Syed Mahbub-e-Khuda Dewanbagi, known as Dewanbagi Pir, died at a hospital in Dhaka this morning.

A Dhaka court today deferred the charge framing hearing of a case filed against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee and five others -- on charges of embezzling Tk 1.27 crore from Islamic Foundation's Zakat Fund -- to January 11.

Police recovered body of a government official from Dhaka’s Mogbazar area this morning.

A US Army special forces sergeant based in Florida has been charged in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three wounded, authorities said Sunday.

The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday.

Voting in 24 municipalities started this morning, using electronic voting machines (EVMs).

Saudi Arabia interior ministry on Monday extended a ban on entry to the kingdom by air, land and sea for another week amid new coronavirus variant fears, the state news agency reported.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making.

Tribunal judges, prosecutors and police officers of cases filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act are not abiding by its provision of explaining reasons for not completing trials within 180 days, the Supreme Court administration said in a notification today.

A man was killed this evening in an altercation over sharing the money of a shrine in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila.

Eleven noted citizens in a joint statement have said Kushtia Superintendent of Police SM Tanvir Arafat’s recent statement, about the vandalism of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and revolutionary Bagha Jatin’s statues, was in favour of the spirit of the Liberation War.

Department of Environment (DoE) (Chattogram region) fined two people Tk 12 lakh in connection with filling up a 30,000 square feet canal in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila today.

A German pilot has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometers to remind people about the start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Europe.