Former vice president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur has been formally released around midnight.

Apprehending the second wave of coronavirus in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today instructed the authorities concerned to take all-out preparations up to the field-level as part of the precautionary measures to fight any possible resurfacing of Covid-19 in the approaching winter.

Police have recovered the bodies of two tourists from two separate residential hotels at Kuakata beach.

Government primary school assistant teachers will get their salaries in a higher grade soon as the upgradation process is in its final stage, according to a press release by the education ministry.

Bahrain’s move to establish ties with Israel was not directed against any entity or power but aimed to bring about a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government’s firm conviction to global peace, justice and harmony

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 stone coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry of tourism and antiquities says.

Bangladesh has sought immediate action from the UN Security Council to ensure that Myanmar refrains from escalating the situation targeting the Rohingyas under the pretext of security operations, which may lead to a further influx of Myanmar nationals into Bangladesh.

The Cabinet today approved the draft of Sheikh Hasina Medical University, Khulna Bill-2020 to set up a medical university in Khulna division, aiming to expand facilities for medical education, research and healthcare services in the region.

A Dhaka court today placed Abdul Malek, a driver of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS), on a 14-day remand in two separate cases filed on charges of possessing an illegal firearm and trading fake currencies.

Newly appointed chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission Md Sohorab Hossain was sworn in today.

The High Court has stayed for six months the government decision that cancelled the freedom fighter status of 192 retired members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), and also directed the government to give them benefits as freedom fighters.

A top official of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) has died in a road accident in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

Customs House at Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Dhaka seized alcoholic beverages from a consignment imported by giving a false declaration.

A Dhaka University student, who was raped in the capital's Kurmitola area, narrated the incident on camera before a Dhaka tribunal today.

A rape case has been filed with Lalbagh Police Station against six people, including vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur.

The High Court today acquitted all the eight accused, among whom six were sentenced to death and two were sentenced to life imprisonment by the lower court concerned, in a murder case filed in 2006.

Forty people have died and 1,705 new Covid-19 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 Narayanganj court has granted bail to eight officials -- suspended over the blast at a Narayanganj mosque -- of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

The wealthiest one percent of earth’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth, according to a press release issued by Oxfam.