A Dhaka court has sent Abzal Hossain, a suspended accountant of the medical education department under Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), to jail in connection with two money laundering cases filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A woman who came to Dhaka for treatment dies after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw hit her in front of Gonoshasthaya Kendra Hospital in Dhanmondi.

The High Court today questioned the authorities' failure to refund Tk 3.05 crore to a depositor of unipay2u Bangladesh Limited, in line with a trial court verdict.

A Dhaka court has placed Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed on a six-day remand in a case filed against him on charges of misappropriating over Tk 45 lakh from a house owner.

A tribunal in Dhaka has framed charges against Md Majnu, the lone accused in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola area.

A case has been filed against Officer-in-Charge of Ukhiya Police Station and three other policemen for allegedly torturing a college student at the police station.

Three people were shot, one of them fatally, as gunfire broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the third straight night of unrest sparked by the police shooting of a Black man, the New York Times reports citing law enforcement.

Launch services on the Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes remain suspended since this morning due to rough weather and strong currents at the Padma and Jamuna rivers.

Two sisters have reportedly been gang raped by five people at Boalia village in Chuadanga Sadar upazila.

Kazakhstan has signed a deal to get supplies of Russia’s first potential Covid-19 vaccine once clinical trials are complete, the Central Asian nation’s government says.

A Dhaka court has granted bail to two former teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in a case filed over provoking suicide of ninth-grader Aritry Adhikary in December 2018.

Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar, after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence.

First lady Melania Trump offered sympathy for victims of the coronavirus pandemic and a plea for racial understanding in a Republican convention speech on Tuesday aimed directly at the women voters who have abandoned US President Donald Trump.

The father of slain three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited him in the next life and it would be more severe than prison.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warns that distributing a Covid-19 vaccine under special emergency use guidelines before it has been proved safe and effective in large trials is a bad idea that could have a chilling effect on the testing of other vaccines.

A video of a bride driving a motorcycle to her holud ceremony recently went viral on social media triggering mixed reactions.

Bangladesh has urged US investors to set up Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing plants in Bangladesh to ensure its availability at lower cost for people of the country.

The crew of a lighter vessel have rescued 18 fishermen from a sinking fishing trawler at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port.

Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are readying for a third night of unrest after arsonists have torched much of the city’s Black business district following the shooting of a Black man in the back by police.

Police have arrested six Rohingya men in possession of arms from a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.