Police have foiled an attempt by Hefazat-e-Islam-led ‘Somomona Islami Dal’ -- a platform of Islamist parties -- to besiege the French embassy in Dhaka.

Eight out of 22 public holidays will fall on the weekends next year.

The local administration last night seized two trucks loaded with 40 tonnes of urea fertiliser on Bogura-Dhaka highway in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila.

Better Bangladesh Foundation recently held the Digital Bangladesh Summit 2020 virtually, focusing on digital transformation to support small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh.

Vehicular movement from Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque to Bijoynagar intersection remained suspended since this morning as several hundred activists of Hefazat-e-Islam staged protest against the recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Several thousand Malaysia-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers started demonstrating in front of the foreign ministry since today morning, demanding that the government takes immediate measures to review their visa so that they can return to their workplaces in Malaysia.

A 17-year-old girl from Bogura was held in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir for allegedly hurting religious sentiment during a Facebook live yesterday.

In the United States, the winner of a presidential election is determined not by a national vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots “electoral votes” to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on their population.

Five more people have been arrested in connection with the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat.

A Dhaka court today rejected bail petitions of seven bodyguards of GK Shamim, a top contractor of government projects, in a money laundering case.

Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk has died of a suspected stroke at the age of 74, BBC reports.

Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a covered van in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj early today.

The recent floods in three phases damaged standing crops on 42,055 hectares of land causing production losses of 1,49,416 tonnes of crops worth Taka 499.16 crore this year in Rangpur agriculture region.

A man has been executed at Kashimpur Central Jail-2 for killing his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter.

Rescue efforts continued in eight buildings in western Turkish city of Izmir, authorities said, as the death toll from Friday’s powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea region rose to 81.

The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for Covid-19, but stressed he had no symptoms.

The government today urged the country’s people not to pay heed to any rumours or any provocative speech.

A 21-year-old, who was severely burned in Friday’s fire at Notun Bazar slum in Kalyanpur in the capital, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka today.

A journalist of a local news portal in Chattogram, who went missing on Thursday morning, was found in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila this evening.

Expatriates sent home USD 2.11 billion in remittances in October this year, which is 28.62 percent higher than the same month last year, a top official of Bangladesh Bank has said. With this, the total remittance earnings from first four months of the ongoing fiscal year have been USD 8.83 billion, which is 43.42 percent higher compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year.