The incident of gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali's Begumganj upazila has embarrassed the nation, Chattogram Range Deputy Inspector General of Police Anwar Hossain said today.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern thanked New Zealanders on Saturday (Oct 17) for delivering her party a landslide general election victory on the back of her government’s success fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.

India is in the process of finalising a top priority list of nearly 30 crore people, including health workers, police personnel, sanitation workers, the elderly and people with co-morbidities for getting an estimated 60 crore Covid-19 vaccine shots.

All kinds of programmes on the occasion of 130th death anniversary of Baul king Fakir Lalon Shah this year have been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Ahead of the announced three-hour internet shutdown across the country every day from tomorrow, internet service providers and cable operators are going to sit with Post and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar at 6pm today to resolve the issue.

Bangladesh records 23 Covid-19 deaths and 1,209 new cases overnight.

Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque was admitted to a hospital in the city today.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is headed for a landslide win and a second term in office in New Zealand’s general election.

A housewife was gang-raped, allegedly by three people, in a remote char area under Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali last night.

A long march by anti-rape protesters from Dhaka to Noakhali came under attack in Feni earlier today.

On October 15, 1985, the roof of Dhaka University's residential Jagannath Hall collapsed. The tragedy claimed the lives of as many as 40 people, including 26 students and 14 guests. Since then, October 15 is observed as a day of mourning for the university.

The total number of declared deaths from the new coronavirus has topped 1.1 million around the world, according to an AFP tally from official sources at 1500 GMT Friday.

The condition of the baby girl -- declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday but found alive before burial hours later -- is critical. She is under treatment at the Neonatal Intensive Care unit at the hospital.

Local administration imposed Section 144 in Faridpur Sadar Upazila Headquarters today, effectively imposing curfew out of fear of clashes as supporters of Faridpur-4 MP Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury -- popularly known as “Nixon” -- and his rival group called rallies and counter rallies at the same venue and time.

The by-election of Dhaka-5 constituency with participation of the two major political parties -- Awami League and BNP -- started at 9:00am.

For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has been admitted to a hospital in Dhaka with coronavirus infection.

Azerbaijan says 12 civilians were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the city of Ganja due to shelling by Armenia.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has said they arrested four persons for raping a 14-year old girl in Cox’s Bazar over one and a half months.

A former union parishad member was arrested by police this afternoon for allegedly raping a woman in Rangamati’s Barkal upazila after promising to marry her.