Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) fined a vessel owner Tk one lakh for illegally dismantling a vessel on Patenga beach.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today arrested actress Rhea Chakraborty after questioning her for three consecutive days in connection with drugs-related allegations in the Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

A fire at Mymensingh city’s Kewatkhali Power Grid has snapped power supply in the entire Mymensingh division since this noon.

Civil society members have condemned and protested an attack on a photography exhibition on extrajudicial killings organized by Drik Gallery on September 4.

Two Myanmar soldiers have been taken to The Hague after confessing to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims during a 2017 crackdown, two news organisations and a rights group reported on Tuesday.

India’s Border Security Force today said they have apprehended a Bangladeshi national when he was allegedly trying to smuggle cattle through a river route in Malda district of India’s West Bengal.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the secretary to the ministry of housing and public works to reopen Ramna Park in Dhaka in 24 hours so that people can walk and move about in the park.

The UN rights chief called Tuesday on Moscow to conduct or cooperate with a "thorough, transparent, independent and impartial investigation" into the alleged nerve agent attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Parliament today passed a bill aimed at forming Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurements to provide chemical metrology services across the country.

Thirty-six 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).

The High Court today summarily rejected a writ petition that sought its directive upon the government to form a high-standing committee to conduct an inquiry into the deaths of 84 wild elephants in Chattogram region in the last 19 years.

Another doctor who was diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Dhaka today.

The High Court will pass an order tomorrow on a writ petition seeking its directive upon the authorities concerned to give Tk 50 lakh each as compensation to the families of the victims, who died and suffered injuries in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

To encourage engineering research in the country, a bill is passed in the parliament.

A tribunal in Dhaka has concluded recording the statements of witnesses in an arms case against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman.

Arunrung Phothong Humphreys, ambassador of Thailand to Bangladesh, has handed over swab testing units to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) and icddr,b.

Nine year-old Zinia, who used to sell flowers at Dhaka University’s TSC area and was abducted a week ago from the campus, was rescued from Narayanganj last night.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenage boy in Jashore’s Chaugachha upazila yesterday.

A bill titled 'Gazipur Unnayan Kartripakkha Bill 2020' was passed in the Parliament today to turn the fast-growing Gazipur city into a planned, livable and environment-friendly urban area.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi launched her re-election bid on Tuesday ahead of polls set for November, vowing victory at a scaled-down ceremony in the capital after her original plans were scuppered by a surge in coronavirus cases.