Mirpur police arrested a Bangladesh Chhatra League city unit leader and a woman after a girl filed a case against them yesterday on charge of rape and abetting it.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for focusing on “future sustainability” while making investment as she placed a four-point proposal to save the planet from the adverse impacts of climate change.

A Cox’s Bazar court has ordered for the charges to be framed against 101 drug dealers, who had surrendered before the home minister in 2019, in a narcotics case.

Bangladesh will observe a one-day national mourning tomorrow to honour the memory of Kuwait’s emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Jaber Al-Sabah, who breathed his last on Tuesday. He was 91 years old.

The High Court has formed a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the allegations of illegal sand extraction from Surma and Kushiara rivers in Sylhet’s Bianibazar area and to identify the persons responsible in this connection.

A Russian court has abruptly handed Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes, a 13-year jail term after overturning an earlier sentence on charges that his supporters say were fabricated to punish him for his work.

Saudi Arabia plans to cut spending by 7.5% in next year’s budget to 990 billion riyals ($263.94 billion) but expects the economy to return to growth as its management of the coronavirus crisis improves.

India’s National Human Rights Commission today issued a notice to the Home Ministry over rights group Amnesty International deciding to halt its operations in the country after alleging “witch-hunt” by the government, officials said today according to our New Delhi correspondent.

Schools and colleges across India will be allowed to reopen from October 15 as the government tonight announced a fresh phase of lifting of Covid-19 curbs.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said that the government will look out for the interests of the business community even if there is some loss to the banks at the moment.

According to a Bangladesh Bank notice issued today, there is no cash incentive on investment in three types of bonds for non-resident Bangladeshis.

About three decades after the 16th century Babri mosque was razed, a special court in India today acquitted all the 32 people, including Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, in the case saying “there is no conclusive and enough proof” against the accused.

The ruling Awami League has picked Habib Hasan for Dhaka-18 and Tanvir Shakil Joy for Sirajganj-1 to contest the upcoming by-polls constituencies.

Flemish liberal leader Alexander De Croo will be Belgium's new prime minister at the head of a seven-party coalition government, it was announced Wednesday -- 16 months after an inconclusive election.

Dhaka today urged the countries which host migrant workers, to consider the interests of Bangladeshi expatriates sympathetically in the present context of Covid-19 pandemic.

Bishop Bejoy D’Cruze OMI has been appointed the new Archbishop of Dhaka, as Cardinal Patrick D Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka Catholic Archdiocese, has retired from the post.

A local court today placed the key accused on a two-day remand in two cases filed over gang-rape of a Chakma girl and robbery in Khagrachhari on September 24.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has filed an unnatural death case with Bagerhat Sadar Police Station over the death of a man in custody.

Bangladeshis consider air travel to be the safest mode of transportation in the country amid the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, said a consumer survey.

Keeping the coronavirus pandemic situation in mind, DNCC is going to run “Vitamin A-plus” campaign at 1,905 centres for 14 days in all its wards, targeting 8,71,019 children.