Over 100 Dhaka-bound passenger buses from different districts of the northern region were sent back from the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj today as they were travelling in violation of the ban on inter-district public transport.

A woman was killed in a gas cylinder explosion at Khulna today.

The Primary and Mass Education Ministry today extended the closure of primary schools and kindergartens till May 29, as a preventive measure against further spread of coronavirus.

Twenty-five people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

An operative of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam confessed to a Dhaka magistrate yesterday (Saturday) that he was planning to attack Jatiya Sangsad on May 5 as per instruction of its leader Ali Hasan Osama, known as "Banglar Osama".

A mild heatwave is sweeping over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna and Barishal divisions, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).

Grameen America, the leading microfinance nonprofit organization providing business capital to low-income minority women in the United States, on May 13 announced plans to accelerate its commitment to racial equity through its new ‘Elevating Black Women Entrepreneurs’ initiative. The dedicated programme, which will offer loan capital, financial training, asset and credit building tools to black women entrepreneurs, aims to expand to $1.3 billion in loans to more than 80,000 Black women entrepreneurs by 2030.

To the outside world, the scenes of rocket fire, bombing raids and angry protests in the Middle East this week may have looked familiar. To the people of Israel and especially the Gaza Strip, they were anything but routine.

India will have 51.6 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine procured by the end of July this year, including the 18 crore doses already administered among people, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Mango cultivators began harvesting the fruit from today following the scheduled date as instructed by the local administration.

In this Eid special, we talked life and experience with Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdousi Mazumder, the evergreen couple.

Residents near Ekhtiyarpur canal in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj can now finally breathe a sigh of relief after a factory in the vicinity was shut down for polluting the environment with industrial waste.

Myanmar's army battled local militia fighters in the northwestern town of Mindat on Saturday, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in the Southeast Asian country in February.

An Israeli air raid on a densely populated refugee camp in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians from an extended family, mostly children, early Saturday in the deadliest single strike of the current battle with Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

One person died and 20 others were injured after a bus lost control and fell into a ditch on the east side of the Bangabandhu Bridge’s connecting road.

The West Bengal government today announced a two-week complete lockdown from tomorrow to check the spread of Covid-19 infections.

Hundreds of city dwellers are leaving the capital today for their homes even on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The government will issue a circular tomorrow on extending the ongoing countrywide "lockdown" till May 23 in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19, state minister for public administration Farhad Hossain, said.

Three labours were killed and six others were injured after a truck hit a human hauler in Nachole upazila of Chapainawabganj this morning.