A father and his son die of electrocution in a pond where its owner allegedly set up an electric trap to protect fishes from thieves in Nandigram upazila of Bogura.

Adventures Overland, the company formed by Indian duo Tushar Agarwal and Sanjay Madan, has so far focused on arranging driving trips across long distances, but their latest addition to the extended travel experience involves a modified luxury bus that will carry 20 people across a scenic route from Delhi, India, to London, UK, reports CNN.

Officials of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) claim to have arrested a top member of Neo-JMB from Dhaka’s East-Bashabo area under Sabujbagh Police Station.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to resign for health reasons. He is to announce his resignation at a press conference.

Rajshahi University teacher Kazi Zahidur Rahman was freed on bail on Thursday evening, after an imprisonment of 11 weeks for his Facebook post allegedly involving late Awami League veteran leader Mohammed Nasim.

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from an NGO office/residence in Dhaka's Nakhalpara area this morning.

3G and 4G mobile services at the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar resumed today. Sources in the telecom companies said the BTRC sent the instruction to them at 10am to restore the services. The decision to lift the restrictions -- imposed over a year ago -- was made on Sunday at the meeting of a national taskforce chaired by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

A defiant President Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination for a second term with a blistering attack on Democratic rival Joe Biden, asserting that a Biden victory in November would only exacerbate the racial strife and coronavirus pandemic besieging the nation.

Nigerian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp today marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

South Korea has pledged to provide $800,000 worth of test kits to help curb the further spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

A Russian national has reportedly died of alcohol poisoning at a private hospital in Rajshahi, police said.

New details on Bangladeshi MP Mohammed Shahid Islam’s dealings and businesses in Kuwait have surfaced, a daily Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas reported according to Gulf News.

The bank accounts of Shamima Nasrin, chairman of online shopping platform Evaly.com and its Managing Director Md Rassel have been frozen.

The government has reduced the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on International Terrestrial Cable (ITC), International Internet Gateway (IIG) and Nationwide Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) to five percent.

Bangladesh has won the People's Choice Award at Stockholm Junior Water Prize for using naturally produced polyglutamic acid along with moringa to purify water.

Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu today said JP would not accept any decision taken by the Election Commission that would curtail the rights of political parties or people's voting rights.

The Election Commission (EC) is going to file a case against JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury for having acquired dual National Identity Cards (NIDs) with fake information.

Two employees of Savings Department of General Post Office (GPO) in Chattogram were detained by the authority and handed over to the police on charge of embezzling Tk 45 lakh from clients which was deposited at GPO.

A parliamentary body today recommended that the government set up a specialised institute similar to Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute to carry out dope tests for those who want to join public services, police department and take admission in universities.

The High Court today asked for the case records and summoned two investigation officers in order to examine how three accused gave confessional statements on the rape and killing of a girl even though she was found alive in Narayanganj.