The investigation of the case filed in connection with the incident where a man was allegedly tortured to death on Sunday night in Sylhet city's Bandarbazar police outpost, has been transferred to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI).

Planning Minister MA Mannan has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and hospitalised today.

Speakers at a webinar have said Bangladesh has been able to avert a big disaster caused by coronavirus due to the timely intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

President Md Abdul Hamid today issued an ordinance on the amendment of Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Ain (Women and Children Repression Prevention Act), incorporating the provision of capital punishment for rape.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has been appointed as the Chair of Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana, which works for the settlement of the Guyana-Venezuela territorial dispute.

The air quality in Indian capital Delhi slid into the “very poor” category today for the first time this season as gentle wind and low temperatures allowed accumulation of pollutants.

The youth, whose body was recovered from Hatirjheel area yesterday, was a private university student. He arrived in Dhaka from Chattogram for a job interview.

Police recovered the body of a young man from a sand trading point in Dhaka's Khilkhet area early today.

The Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court will go on a vacation from December 20 to December 31.

Describing rapists as “beasts”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government has to induct the death sentence in the relevant law to save girls from these beasts.

The authorities of National University have suspended four students who are accused in a case filed over the gang rape of a woman at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un became visibly emotional during a speech at a military parade over the weekend as he thanked troops for their sacrifices and apologised to citizens for failing to improve their lives.

The government has imposed a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from midnight (October 14) to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period.

The family members of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after being brutally assaulted and allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district of India’s Uttar Pradesh, has told the Allahabad High Court that they want the trial in the case to be moved out of the state.

A late-stage study of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate has been paused while the company investigates whether a study participant’s “unexplained illness” is related to the shot.

A 70-year-old man was killed after a bus hit him at Dhaka's Kuril Bishwa Road area early this morning.

A man was arrested on charges of raping two minors -- sisters -- in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj yesterday, police said.

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Italy has agreed to include Bangladeshis in their Farm Workers programme responding to a request from Bangladesh.

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to sanction Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and other senior officials over an August 9 election the West says was rigged, citing worsening police violence against protesters.