Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee this evening and assured that the Centre will continue to extend all possible support to the West Bengal Government to fulfil people's aspirations and also to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

The High Court today questioned the legality of allocating 912 plots at Purbachal New Town Project in Gazipur on charge of irregularities and corruption.

“Eta Banglar joi. Banglar manusher joi. Bangla gota Bharat-ke Baanchiyechey,” West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee declared today after her party’s landslide victory in the state assembly elections.

A murder case was filed against Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun, son of Awami League lawmaker and parliament whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury, in connection with the death of a young woman at a flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area on April 26.

Detective Branch (DB) of police today arrested three in connection with note forgery from Kamrangichar area of Dhaka.

Transport workers today brought out a procession in the city’s Sayedabad area to press home their 3-point demand including resumption of public transport services maintaining health protocols.

Sixty-nine people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Failing to get expected job even after paying bribe, a jobseeker along with three others killed a woman at Mushuriapara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Thursday.

A High Court bench today refused to entertain a writ petition that sought its directive on the government to formulate comprehensive national short, mid- and long-term plan in order to prevent spread of Covid-19 and to vaccinate all vulnerable citizens -- irrespective of age.

Police recovered the body of a young man from a village in Sadar upazila of Jhenidah last night.

Two men were killed after a truck rammed into their motorcycle on the Patuakhali-Kuakata highway in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali last evening.

The sister of a college student whose body was recovered from a rented flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area on April 26 and also plaintiff of a case over the death filed a general diary (GD) with Cumilla Kotwali Police Station after receiving threats from various mobile numbers.

A construction worker died after falling from an under-construction minaret in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur today.

A seventh grader was allegedly raped at a village in Alfadanga upazila of Faridpur yesterday afternoon.

The economic shock induced by the pandemic has pushed 2.45 crore people into poverty in one year. The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) run this survey and found that the number of new poor people is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

India has received 150,000 Sputnik-V vaccine doses from Russia, a spokesman for India's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Treatment cost for Covid-19 patients is abnormally higher at private hospitals than at public healthcare facilities, revealed a study.

Sixty people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Eight Covid-19 patients, including a senior doctor, of a hospital in Delhi died due to oxygen shortage, a hospital official said today.

ABM Aminul Islam Liton, Jamalpur correspondent of The Daily Star, died of brain stroke at the intensive care unit of a hospital in Delhi this morning, family sources said quoting doctors. He was 52.