Throwing the ball in the government's court, Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Professor AKhteruzzaman today said the final decision to reopen the university’s residential halls amid Covid-19 would depend on the directives of the Health Ministry.

The Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram region fined 15 businesses Tk 8.51 lakh for violating the environment conservation act.

Police today arrested three persons, including two students, with 1.46 lakh yaba tablets from Anwara upazila of Chattogram.

The kidnap of 344 schoolboys in northwest Nigeria had the appearance of an Islamist militant attack. There was even a video purporting to show some of the boys with members of Boko Haram, the extremists behind the 2014 kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the northeast.

Former state minister and former member of the parliament AKM Jahangir Hossain today died of Covid-19 infection while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). He was 66.

The High Court has observed that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) can issue notice to any citizen in question, asking him or her to appear in person to the commission's office to place statements over corruption allegations.

Police have expressed “no confidence” in the final report submitted by Rab in the drug case filed against Shipra Debnath, a colleague of slain (retd) Major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan.

Transport leaders today reiterated their demand to change several sections of the Road Transport Act 2018 which came into force partially from November last year.

Anti-tobacco group Knowledge for Progress today condemned the government’s decision which has allowed a tobacco company to set up a new manufacturing plant in the country.

Bangladesh has made a jump from 73rd to 65th place in the global cyber security index compiled by the UK-based National Cyber Security Index (NCSI).

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad today said the government is trying to find ways for expatriate Bangladeshis to invest in the country.

The Election Commission today outright rejected the corruption allegations against it, calling those “baseless and motivated”.

State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali today said there will be no compromises with the country’s airport security as that is connected to the country’s image and those who why try to disrupt airport security will have to deal with the consequences.

At least 20 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official told Reuters.

The government has extended the appointment of Ahmad Kaikaus, principal secretary to the Prime Minister, for the next two years.

Nineteen people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked members of Bangladesh Army to stand beside people to improve their living standards.

China will suspend flights to and from the UK, joining a growing list of countries who have instituted travel bans, in light of a new variant of the coronavirus, its foreign ministry announced today.

Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) rescued a volunteer of Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society early today, 10 hours after he was abducted from a Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camp.

The government today appointed Biman Managing Director and CEO M Mokabbir Hossain as the new secretary to the railways ministry.