A parliamentary body today recommended formation of a national commission to hold trial of those involved in the brutal killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 17 of his family members on August 15, 1975.

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has said the ministry is working towards facilitating the production of locally manufactured motor vehicles.

Newspapers, television channels and radio stations will need government approval to run their online news portals as per the draft amendment of online media policy that has been approved at the cabinet meeting.

A doctor has died of coronavirus at Khulna Medical College Hospital.

The government is yet to take any decision on an application that sought extension of its order through which BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was released for six months, Law Minister Anisul Huq said today.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das today described Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the founder of modern Bangladesh and one of the most influential and courageous leaders of the 20th century.

Thirty-three 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).

Body of war hero and commander of Sector-4 during the country's Liberation War, Bir Uttam CR Dutta, has reached Dhaka from the United States where he died at a Florida hospital last week.

The trial on an arms case filed against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman has begun at a tribunal in Dhaka with deposition of a prosecution witness.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) signs a contract with a Chinese joint-venture firm to procure 125 railway luggage vans to boost transportation of agro-based products.

Nandadulal Rakshit, an accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, was giving his confessional statement before a Cox's Bazar court this morning.

Regent Group Managing Director Masud Parvez has been shown arrested in two fraud cases filed with Uttara Paschim Police Station in July this year.

The Election Commission has filed a case against JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on charge of having two National ID cards.

A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of the charges against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over the recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his residence in Dhaka.

India has accused China of “carrying out provocative military movements to change the status quo” along the tense border in eastern Ladakh two days ago and said Indian troops “pre-empted” the Chinese troops’ move on the southern banks of Pangong Tso lake.

SM Shafiullah, superintendent of Khulna police, and three of his family members have been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Democrats accuse President Donald Trump of trying to inflame racial tensions and incite violence to benefit his campaign after he praised supporters who clashed with protesters during a deadly night in Portland, Oregon and announced he will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid anger over the shooting of another Black man by police.

At least three migrants, two men and a woman, died when a fire broke out on a boat carrying around 20 of them close to the southern coast of Italy on Sunday, police and health officials said.

Lebanon’s ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion.

Qatar has announced changes to its labour laws, raising the minimum wage by 25 percent to 1,000 riyals ($275) a month and scrapping a requirement for workers to get permission from their employers to change jobs.