Rajshahi Medical College campus and areas around the hospital premises have turned into a haven for birds, with hundreds of Asian openbill (locally known as shamukkhol), night heron, and cormorants nesting and breeding there.

A Dhaka court today placed Nishan Mahmud Shamim, president of Faridpur district unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on a three-day remand in connection with a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Jack Sherman, the guitarist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) who worked for the band’s debut album and contributed to its rise over the time, has died. He was 64 at the time of passing.

Terming extra judicial killings as unacceptable, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said it cannot be supported in any manner.

Four people were held last night in connection with the gang-rape of a woman in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni yesterday.

Regional migrant rights groups Migrant Forum in Asia and Lawyers Beyond Borders today called upon the Bangladesh government to release the 255 returnee Bangladeshi migrant workers who have been detained in jail, accused of “suspicious activities”.

A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house said.

Three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) were taken into Rab custody from jail today for interrogation, in a case filed in connection with the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Forty-six people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, reads a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Migration of Bengalis from South Asia to the outside world started with taking up jobs as lascars (sailors) in the British East India Company's ships which carried precious goods from the Indian subcontinent, such as spice, tea and cotton. In addition, from the second half of the nineteenth century, Bengali educated and wealthy gentlemen began travelling to England mainly to pursue higher education.

The seventh-grader who was abducted allegedly by her rapist and his family members in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram two days ago, is yet to be rescued.

Exporters and importers went on strike on Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat today after port authorities allegedly doubled parking charges without giving any prior notice.

An epoch-making change in the development of Rajshahi city’s road network is likely to happen within the next couple of months as the city corporation has been elevating its four major roads into four lanes simultaneously.

At least 1,000 fish enclosures were washed away by tidal waves in Bagerhat in the last four days.

Three Bangladeshi men, allegedly with no travel documents, and a female private taxi driver are arrested at a roadblock in Jalan Napoh, Changlun, near Jitra in Malaysia.

Six people have been killed when a bus crashed into their private car on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.

Rayhan Kabir’s parents’ wait is finally over. The young Bangladeshi, who was arrested in Malaysia, has returned home.

Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands M Riaz Hamidullah has presented his credentials as permanent representative of Bangladesh to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine.

Health authorities in China’s capital Beijing have removed a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, further relaxing rules aimed at preventing the spread the novel coronavirus after the city reported 13 consecutive days without new cases.