Rights organisation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today expressed deep concern over the recent incidents of rape and sexual assault in different parts of the country.

In order to make the transition from feature phones to smartphones easier, Samsung has launched a new 4G smartphone, Galaxy M01 core, with Tk. 1,000 off for everyone and additional Tk. 1,000 off when consumers exchange their feature phone.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologised today for the shooting to death of a South Korean man to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the South's national security adviser said, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked Bangladeshi diplomats to reinforce economic diplomacy for expanding trade and business to achieve economic self-reliance for the country.

Twenty-one people died from Covid-19 and 1,383 new infections were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A teenage girl was sexually harassed in public by a group of unruly young men in Puniyaut of Brahmanbaria municipality.

A British police officer has been shot dead by a man who was being detained at a custody centre in south London.

The government has appointed Md Nazrul Islam, currently serving as the Director General of Multilateral Economic Affairs Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new ambassador to Ethiopia.

The body of a college student who went missing four days back was recovered from near a paddy field at Aushia village in Shoilakupa upazila of Jhenaidah last night.

A total of 1,340 police personnel including eight officers-in-charge (OCs), 29 Inspectors and constables are going to join in Cox’ Bazar district police.

Due to excessive rainfall in country’s north-eastern region and India’s Meghalaya, river water level is rising, increasing the possibility of a flood situation being triggered in Sylhet and Sunamganj.

The water level of the Jamuna River crossed the danger level (DL-16.73) at the Mathurapara point and is flowing 3cm above the danger level in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila today due to heavy rainfall.

Around 30 thousand families of nearly 100 chars, islands and villages of the river basins in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts remained stranded and in waterlogged conditions as a result of the ongoing flood, as the water of the Dharla River flowed 39cm above danger level.

A Chinese pharmaceutical company says the coronavirus vaccine it is developing should be ready by early 2021 for distribution worldwide, including the United States.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today placed a five-point recommendation to protect the planet and save people from the adversities of the climate changes.

After several days of a dispute centering the eviction of an indigenous community in Madhupur in Tangail, the community’s people and the forest department reached a consensus to resolve the issue.

A parliamentary standing committee has recommended enlisting coconut products -- coco-peat, coir fibre, basket, and mattress -- as exportable agricultural items since the country produces a huge amount of coconuts.

The Dhaka University student, who had filed two separate cases against former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur and few others with Lalbagh Police Station and Kotwali Police Station, today filed a case against eight respondents, a Facebook group and over a hundred unidentified people saying they harassed her on social media posts.

A tea stall owner was hacked to death in Bagerhat’s Morrelganj last night. His body was later dumped in a canal.

Forty-two police officials posted in Cox’s Bazar have been transferred out of the district.