At least 275 out of 456 local newspapers (60.31%) -- published from the different upazilas, districts and divisional cities across the country -- have shut down completely amid the fallout from Covid-19 pandemic.

Residential hotels, motels, cottages, restaurants and tourist spots in Cox's Bazar, the country's main tourist destination, will remain closed before Eid-ul-Azha.

A housewife is reportedly gang-raped by four youths in Mugrakanda area of Savar, on the outskirt of the capital Dhaka.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda today said by-elections have to be held due to constitutional obligation.

Twenty-one civil society organisations working on migration and development expressed deep concern over the Malaysian government’s “harassment of journalists and migrant workers”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has requested the print and electronic media in Bangladesh not to publish news that may impact the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Italy.

A human hauler driver is killed after his vehicle turned turtle on the Khulna-Mawa highway in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat.

Dr Senjuti Saha, a microbiologist working as a scientist at the Child Health Research Foundation in Bangladesh, has been appointed to the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the World Health Organization as a member.

A Bangladeshi citizen has been “shot dead” and another injured inside Indian territory near Utma border in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone on Friday, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

Police have arrested another brother of a local ward councillor in Cumilla Sadar upazila in a murder case filed against 10 people, including the councilor.

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has called for Covid-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them most, not to the “highest bidder,” saying relying on market forces would prolong the deadly pandemic.

Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are lying empty despite the country struggling with a rising caseload as people are too scared to enter hospitals, officials and sufferers say.

Abdus Salam, a supervisor of the Moyur-2 launch, is sent to jail after a three-day police remand for his interrogation was completed in connection with a case filed for the death of 34 people in Buriganga launch capsize that took place on June 29.

Hundreds of chars and low-lying areas along the Teesta and Dharla Rivers have been inundated as Teesta waters began flowing above danger level since yesterday afternoon, leaving around 70,000 people of 17 unions of Lalmonirhat district marooned.

The flood situation in Sunamganj and Sylhet have worsened a week after improving following a previous bout of flash floods, as the most important river flowing through the districts -- the Surma -- was overflowing.

The prime accused in a case filed for the gang-rape of a mentally challenged girl in Noakhali was killed in a gunfight earlier today, police say.

Maj (retd) Khaled Akhtar, chairman of HM Ershad Trust and former presidium member of Jatiya Party (JP), dies after a battle with Covid-19.

Former home minister Sahara Khatun was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in Dhaka today.

Regular flight operations between Dhaka and Barishal will resume tomorrow while ensuring health guidelines, officials inform The Daily Star.