Ferry service on the Padma river at Paturia-Daulatdia has been hampered over the last three days due to shortage of ferries.

A BBC report published hours ago says that leaked documents show a British bank moved money that may have been linked to terrorist financing.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved five projects involving Tk 1,266 crore, including a Tk 246-crore one to develop hilsa resources in the country.

28 die, 1,557 infected, 2,073 recover in 24 hours

Activists of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad staged a demonstration in Dhaka city today, protesting “false cases, detention and police action” against them including former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur.

In light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Economics Study Center, University of Dhaka, launched its report titled “Assessing the Fault lines of the Health Sector: Implications for Future Policy Response” at the 3rd Bangladesh Economics Summit on the 19th of September 2020. A subsequent panel discussion was held to discuss the findings of the report, which was chaired by Dr Rumana Haque, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and attended by the chief guest, Mr M.A. Mannan, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Planning, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

Manhattan's district attorney says he might have grounds to investigate President Donald Trump and his businesses for tax fraud, as he seeks to persuade a federal appeals court to let him obtain Trump's tax returns.

A Dhaka court has ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze two bank accounts of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid, in connection with a case filed for amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond known sources of income.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from a canal in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.

The High Court has directed the government to take necessary steps to recognise the people who had received training inside the country for the purpose of participating in 1971 Liberation War, as freedom fighters.

Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up.

In a rare incident, a farmer from Ratidhar Dewti village of Lalmonirhat has bought an elephant worth Tk 16.5 lakh in order to obey “divine instructions received by his wife in her dreams”.

Several thousand migrant workers demonstrated in front of Saudi Airlines office in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning, due to shortage of tickets to Saudi Arabia.

Former vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur was sued in another case filed with Kotwali Police Station last night.

Another person, who suffered burns in the Narayanganj mosque blast incident, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka today.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines finally got permission from Saudi Arabia to resume commercial flights to the kingdom from October 1.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for not allowing geopolitical rivalries to weaken the United Nations as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that both developed and developing nations need the UN more than ever.

Majeda Begum, mother of Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim, passed away at a hospital in Khulna last night. She was 73.

The health condition of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who has been receiving treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for Covid-19 infection, deteriorated again tonight.

Riaz Uddin Jami of dainik Janakantha and Jabed Rahim Bijon of the daily Manabzamin were elected the president and general secretary respectively of Brahmanbaria Press Club today.