Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for a concerted global action to ensure a safe and secure environment for students during the coronavirus pandemic.

When Imtiaz Hossain Rocky -- younger brother of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny who was tortured to death in police custody in 2014 -- heard the verdict, he was stunned into silence. As people prodded him, he whispered, barely audibly, “I’m satisfied, sir” over and over again.

Five contracting agencies, who were working under Max JV Company Limited, were fined a total of Tk 25 lakh for razing a huge swaths of hills inside a forest at Chakaria of Cox's Bazar today.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Belarusian opposition politician Maria Kolesnikova is being detained under suspicion of state treason, as part of a criminal case involving an attempt to seize power, the Russian news agency RIA cited her lawyer as saying today.

Safety of a prospective vaccine for COVID-19 comes “first and foremost”, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Wednesday, as a trial of a candidate from AstraZeneca was paused, at least temporarily, due to concerns over side effects.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that he doesn’t know how the probe report on the investigation into the murder of Major (retd) Sinha was published in a newspaper.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three policemen -- including former sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station Jahidur Rahman -- to life imprisonment and two other accused to seven years' jail in the case filed over the custodial death of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny in 2014.

The United States military has announced that it would be reducing its presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalising a move that had been long expected.

Six persons have been killed as an ambulance collided head on with a covered van in Ujirpur upazila of Barishal.

A court in Jamalpur today sentenced a man to death and five others to life imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of one Momin in Sadar upazila of the district in 2007.

A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the second time he has put forward the US president for the honour.

Dhaka Customs House officials today seized over 15 kilogrammes of amphetamine powder from a flight of Biman at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record last year -- down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990 – but Covid-19 could reverse decades of this progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, global health and welfare agencies warned today.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad today told the parliament that the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers returning from abroad due to the global coronavirus pandemic is not “alarming”.

Forty-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).

Four accused in Major (retd) Sinha murder case gave confessional statements in front of a Cox's Bazar court today.

A tribunal in Dhaka has set September 15 to decide whether it will frame charges against all the 25 accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case filed last year.

The High Court today directed Titas Gas Ltd to give Tk 5 lakh as initial compensation in seven days to each family of the victims, who died and suffered injuries in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

At least 10 people including women and children drowned while 10 other passengers remained missing in a collision between two trawlers in a river at Netrakona's Kalmakanda upazila today.