Four people were killed and 17 others were injured as two buses collided head-on in Magura’s Sadar upazila today.

The National Technical Advisory Committee formed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, has advised the government to go for an advance payment in a bid to procure the Covid-19 vaccine quickly.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has said that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalisation deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed accords.

Shah Ahmad Shafi, amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, who was on life support and was flown to Dhaka just hours back, died while he was being treated at Asgar Ali Hospital this evening.

Twitter on Thursday said it is tightening security of high-profile politicians, campaigns and journalists as a “critical preventative step” ahead of the US presidential election.

Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Amid the uncertainty that looms over the movie business, Modhuban Cineplex in Bogura is planning to reopen. The cinema theatre, which is set to be a multiplex, has been closed since 2017 for reconstruction and renovation purposes.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who has tested positive for Covid-19, was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) early this morning after his condition deteriorated.

A wedding programme turned into a tragedy after one of the groom’s friends died from electrocution in Dhaka’s East Badda area early today.

Dhaka has not made it to the list of 109 smart cities in the world, according to the 2020 Smart City Index.

Four strike forces have been formed to ensure security of the Kashimpur Central Jail at the directive of the prison administration.

The World Health Organization’s European director warned national governments Thursday against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, even as he acknowledged that COVID-19 “fatigue” was setting in with growing public resistance to the measures needed to control the pandemic.

Police have arrested an agent of a bKash fraud gang following a case filed against him with Pirojpur Sadar police station for passing on people’s bKash accounts details to the gang.

A garment worker has died after four of his co-workers pumped air into his body through the rectum in Manikganj said the local police.

Shah Ahmad Shafi, amir of Hefazat-e-Islam, resigned from the post of Director General of Al Jameyatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari madrasa, amid the student unrest over the last two days.

The people of Dharla River shoal in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts are badly affected by the fourth phase flood as the water flows above the danger level.

A Kuwait court has rejected Laxmipur-2 lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul’s plea for release and decided to postpone the trial of the accused in the case until October 1 after the hearing of a case accusing him of human trafficking, money laundering, bribing and threatening the state security.

Negligence of the mosque's committee was behind the explosion at Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on September 4, found a probe committee formed by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited.

Renowned Bangladeshi neurologist, academic and neuro-medicine specialist Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohammad, also the founding director of National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka, has placed himself in quarantine.

While a good number of candidates has become frustrated as many of them had crossed maximum age limit for government job during the lockdown period, the latest directive from Ministry of Public Administration (MoPA) brings a ray of hope.