Investigators today began their probe into the crash of the Air India Express plane with 195 people on board to Kozhikode in Kerala as the plane’s Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder were recovered from the aircraft, Civil Aviation officials said.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) finds Aedes mosquito larvae in 87 houses and establishments during the first day of a combing operation to destroy breeding grounds of the mosquitoes.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib made immense sacrifices to create scope for Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to fully devote himself to the country.

Fourteen Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh's relations with India and China should not be compared, adding that Bangladesh emphasises its development through cooperation and collaboration.

Thirty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Police have recovered the bodies of two motorcyclists beside Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

Two people were killed in a head-on collision between a human hauler and a motorcycle on the Hemayetpur-Singair regional highway in Singair upazila of Manikganj last night.

A housewife was gang raped by some people at a village in Jhikargachcha upazila of Jashore.

Six people have been killed and nine others injured when a night coach rammed a number of vehicles and pedestrians all within a distance of half a kilometres in Chuadanga Sadar upazila.

More than 160,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States, a Reuters tally showed on Friday, as President Donald Trump said he would unilaterally grant financial relief to Americans after talks with congressional Democrats stalled.

The death toll in the Air India Express plane crash at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport rises to 18 with one more passenger succumbing to injuries.

Roberto Vargas was heading to buy flour with his children in Caracas on Thursday when he lowered his face mask to wipe sweat from his face, he said. A National Guard officer noticed and ordered him to spend 50 minutes sat on the roadside with several dozen others, the builder recounted.

Lebanon’s president has said its investigation into the biggest blast in Beirut’s history would examine whether it was caused by a bomb or other external interference, as residents sought to rebuild shattered homes and lives.

Requiring health ministry’s permission on each occasion to conduct drives at hospitals by law enforcers is a challenge in unearthing corruption in the country’s health sector, Transparency International Bangladesh Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has said.

A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and rescue workers were searching for more than 50 people thought to be trapped under soil and debris, officials say.

Seven policemen arrested in connection with the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan have been suspended.

Two youths including a student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) today died after drowning in a river at Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha.

At least 17 people, including the pilot and co-pilot, have been killed and 112 injured after an Air India Express Boeing 737 aircraft with 195 people on board from Dubai skidded off the runway while landing amidst heavy downpour at the Kozhikode airport in the southern state of Kerala, police say.

Education Minister Dipu Moni has underscored the need to build tech-based skilled human resources and said that enrollment rate in technical education will be raised to 50 percent by 2050.