A woman is killed and her four-year-old child injured during a ‘’gunfight between a group of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity and patrol teams of Bangladesh Army’’ in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban yesterday, according to a regional press release from army.

A journalist of The Daily Star has been named the winner of the “Family Planning Media Award 2020” arranged by the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) today.

Thirty 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.

Internationally acclaimed historian Professor Abul Bashar Mosarraf Hossain of Rajshahi University (RU) passed away at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in Dhaka, Prof Fazlul Haque, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at RU, says.

A local journalist has been physically assaulted by an assistant sub-inspector under Shajahanpur Police Station in Bogura.

Gas supply in some areas of Dhaka will remain suspended for 12 hours -- from 8:00am -- tomorrow due to gas pipeline relocation work.

At least six Naga insurgents are killed in a gunfight with Indian forces in Khonsa area of the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

In the span of a few hours on Friday, Amazon.com Inc banned and then unbanned the TikTok video sharing app from employee mobile devices, calling the move a mistake.

Dr Md Aminul Islam, director general of Bogura Rural Development Academy (RDA), has died of coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

A transport leader has been stabbed to death while another injured by miscreants in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet.

The new coronavirus is likely spreading through the air to some degree, the top US infectious disease official says, one day after the World Health Organization urged further studies on the ways the virus is transmitted.

Two brothers of a ward councillor in Cumilla have been arrested over the murder of a local sand trader.

Twenty-seven cattle markets, including two permanent ones, are being mulled by the two Dhaka city corporations ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, scheduled for later this month.

Awami League Presidium Member and former home minister Sahara Khatun will be buried beside her parents’ graves at Banani graveyard tomorrow.

A total of 157 Bangladeshi citizens, stranded in the Maldives for several months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, returns home on a special flight of the US-Bangla Airlines.

The National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 suggests not to set up cattle market in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Chattogram cities ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha in a bid to prevent further transmission of the novel coronavirus.

President Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.

A Dhaka court places the directors of three recruiting agencies -- which are linked to a human trafficking ring in Vietnam -- on three-day remands each.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has promised to spend $700 billion on American-made products and industrial research, which he said would give at least 5 million more people a paycheck during a job-killing pandemic.

Detectives have arrested a youth while he was carrying a bag with 10,000 yaba pills in Dhaka’s Bangshal area.