Five people were accused in a case filed in connection with the gang-rape of a college girl in Tangail’s Gopalpur upazila last night.

Supply chain issues, such as monitoring and deficit in good governance, remain major challenges to ensuring a strong sustainable food system in Bangladesh, according to speakers at a discussion today.

Executive Magistrate Nilufa Yasmin Chowdhury’s driver was injured as miscreants hurled a crude bomb at the vehicle in front of a polling centre in Chattogram’s Lohagara upazila this afternoon when the Union Parishad polls was in progress.

Two people who were arrested in connection with their involvement in the gang-rape of a teenage girl in Feni’s Dewanganj upazila have confessed to their crimes.

A court in Cox’s Bazar today fixed November 10 for the next hearing on the revision petition challenging the legality of the Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case filed by his sister Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today stressed the need to redouble efforts to find solutions for the stateless and displaced Rohingya people.

Civil society groups based in Cox’s Bazar have called on the international community to redouble efforts for quick repatriation of Rohingyas, saying Bangladesh is facing multiple challenges induced by climate change and Covid-19 pandemic.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four projects, including a Tk 567 crore one, to develop the runways of three domestic airports -- Jashore, Syedpur and Rajshahi -- to ensure the safe landing and take-off of aircraft.

North South University has announced that they would waive 20 percent of tuition fees for the upcoming Fall-2020 semester, in the wake of students’ demo.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today said the list of freedom fighters will be published on December 16 (Victory Day).

A leader of Pahari Chhatra Prishad (PCP), student front of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS- MN Larma), was shot dead by a group of unknown criminals in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati this afternoon.

The Dhaka Medical College authorities today said it is their failure they could not protect a newborn who was declared dead by the authorities of the hospital on Friday but was later found alive right before the burial.

Giving in to the pressure of businessmen, the Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM) has reset the price of potato at Tk 35 per kg at retail markets.

In an historic first visit by a Gulf Arab nation, a United Arab Emirates delegation arrived in Israel on Tuesday to cement the normalisation deal signed last month.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and three others in a corruption case.

Britain said on Tuesday it would back human challenge studies to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines by exposing volunteers to the virus after they had received a vaccine candidate.

The health ministry has nominated 10 private Covid-19 rt-PCR testing labs in Dhaka city for issuing coronavirus infection-free certificates today.

A suspended constable was arrested today in connection with the death of Rayhan Ahmed after allegedly being tortured in police custody.

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

The Dhaka University (DU) authorities decided to curtail admission test marks, hold division-wise tests and not to hold online admission tests for the 2020-2021 academic session.