Facebook Inc has said it is updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

Two people were killed and five others injured after two buses collided on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Munshiganj's Louhajang upazila today.

A case has been filed in connection with the death -- allegedly in police custody -- of Rayhan Ahmed at Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet city early Sunday. The authorities also suspended four policemen, including the in-charge of Bandarbazar Police Outpost Sub-Inspector Akbar Hossain, in this connection.

Three prominent schools of Dhaka face each other tonight in the battle of knowledge. Who will falter, and who will qualify? Join us, with quizmaster Ashraful Haque Emu, to find out.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today arrested another accused in connection with the torture and gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.

Air Arabia authorities have given an opportunity to 112 Bangladeshi expatriates, who were sent back from Abu Dhabi airport earlier, to fly back to the United Arab Emirates without paying any airfare.

The 22-day ban on catching and selling hilsa is set to start from October 14 and will continue to November 4. The government imposed the ban in a bid to protect mother fish during peak breeding season.

Around 45 percent of the people in Dhaka city have already been exposed to the coronavirus infection, said a study by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Italy won’t allow Bangladeshi citizens in till December 31, due to the “previous behaviour” of Bangladeshi expatriates and fear of a possible second wave of Covid-19, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today.

Dr Ehsan Hoque, founder and executive director of Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI), was recently honoured with a Humanitarian Award by Rajshahi Government College in recognition of his outstanding contributions to humanity through his extraordinary dedication, leadership, and commitment to underprivileged people throughout the world.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said an ordinance will be promulgated tomorrow on the amendment of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, incorporating the provision of death penalty for rape so that the law can be applied quickly.

Bangladesh will raise the Rohingya issue during a visit by US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun and seek stronger global support, especially from the United States, for the quick repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

We have come across news in media about misappropriation of relief rice, corrugated iron sheets, other relief items and government financial support for the poor. There are many tricks to embezzle cash support and one of them is using ghost beneficiaries when they are distributed manually. As a result, these incidents are less visible. There has not been much media coverage about the misappropriation in the distribution of cash support.

Senior military officials of India and China today held their seventh round of talks with the sole agenda of finalising a roadmap for disengagement of troops from all the friction points in eastern Ladakh as the border standoff entered the sixth month with an early resolution to the row appearing dim.

The High Court today directed the authorities of electricity suppliers to cancel the inflated electricity bills from February to June and to prepare customised bills based on actual metre-reading for each consumer.

Police arrested a man and his elder sister on charge of raping a 20-year-old girl in Ashulia of Savar.

The High Court today asked the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) not to continue relocation of stray dogs from its area until further hearing of the writ petition filed to this effect.

Two accused -- Saiful Islam and Nazmul Huda -- were placed on a two-day remand each after detectives arrested them in a case over rape of a Dhaka University student. The case was filed on September 20.

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

US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says.