An endangered Asian elephant was found dead at a forest in Katabari village of Sherpur’s Nalitabari upazila this morning.

Two BNP lawmakers came down heavily on the government today in parliament, for what the MPs termed "ongoing extrajudicial killings", and demanded that the Home Minister give a statement in the House on whether the country’s citizens would get equal scope to take shelter under the law.

The High Court today upheld the death penalty of three convicts in a murder case filed in 2008 in Mymensingh.

The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country’s interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats said, in response to an August 9 election that the West says was rigged.

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given an October 15 deadline for a post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union, brushing off fears about "no-deal" chaos if talks fail.

Six people, including two members of a family, were killed and two others injured in lightning strikes in Kushtia and Bogura today.

Robotic Process Automation or RPA has emerged as the starting point for digital transformation in the financial sector as well as other sectors.

Owners of 52 onion warehouses kept those closed in Chattogram city from this morning, protesting a drive conducted by the district administration yesterday -- following a sharp rise in onion prices.

37 die, 2,202 infected, 3,298 recover in 24 hours

Awami League has announced the names of its candidates for the Dhaka-5 and Naogaon-6 by-elections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Bangladesh regional office of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) for South Asia on Tuesday.

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has said that the government has adopted a zero-accident and zero-pollution policy to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the industrial sector.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has started a drive to evict construction material kept illegally on footpaths and roads, creating obstacles to pedestrian movement.

The ‘Sunamganj Science and Technology University Bill 2020’ was placed in parliament today, allowing the authorities concerned to establish one more science and technology university in the country.

The Bangladesh Travel Agency (Registration and Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was placed in Parliament keeping a provision of maximum six months’ imprisonment or Tk 5 lakh fine or both in the case of violation of any provision under the proposed law.

Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province early on Monday, Indonesian authorities say.

The probe committee conducting the enquiry into the killing of Major (retd) Sinha submits its report to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at his ministry.

The number of vehicles at Paturia Ghat has increased as ferry services on the Shimulia-Kanthalbari waterway has been suspended due poor navigability.

Liberation War Museum trustee Ziauddin Tariq Ali has died with Covid-19 at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital.