The High Court today summoned Faridpur's Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Mainul Islam for not properly following the relevant rules in recording confessional statements from three accused in a school student murder case.

Md Sohorab Hossain has been appointed as the new chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC). He is a former senior secretary to the government.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today blamed a section of unscrupulous traders and panic buying by a section of consumers for sudden abnormal price hike of onions in the local markets.

A special court in Lucknow will pronounce judgment in the 28-year-old case relating to the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on September 30.

A Barguna court has set September 30 to deliver its verdict in Rifat Sharif murder case.

Four hundred and fifty-nine people were killed and 618 injured in road accidents across the country in August, a report said today.

Twenty-one 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).

Electronic government procurement (e-GP) system can be implemented effectively if political leaders demonstrate honesty to withdraw themselves from government procurements, Transparency International Bangladesh Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman said today.

Regional rights body Fortify Rights has called for Malaysia to immediately release the final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the human trafficking and mass graves of Rohingya and Bangladeshis discovered in Wang Kelian, Perlis in 2015.

Despite repeated calls by animal rights groups to not relocate stray dogs of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh’s instructions to relocate canines have been carried out over the last two days.

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed today claimed himself innocent and demanded justice after a Dhaka tribunal read out charges to him from the statements of prosecution witnesses in an arms case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh’s economy is more or less in good shape now although the Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow around the world.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says only an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories can bring peace to the Middle East, as the UAE and Bahrain signed normalisation accords with the Jewish state.

Foreign students can return to Malaysia to resume their studies provided that they apply beforehand and their universities are open.

Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, the state minister for shipping, has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) resumed passenger train operations at full capacity this morning, three and a half months after it began services on a limited scale.

Runner Automobiles, a newly listed company with stock exchange, is going to set up a three-wheeler manufacturing plant in Bangladesh with the association of Indian automobile giant Bajaj Auto Ltd.

Monowar Hossain Dipjol, one of Dhaliwood's prominent actors, underwent surgery at Dhaka's Bangladesh Specialized Hospital on Tuesday.

The Myanmar military has said it is investigating "possible wider patterns of violations" before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims.

Two Bangladeshi migrants have been shot dead in Athens, Greece.