Speakers at a virtual seminar today urged the government to scrap the speedy energy supply act, officially known as the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2010, terming it “unconstitutional”.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says the national anti-graft agency will intensify its drive to bring justice to those involved in corruption in the health sector and during relief distribution.

Malaysia is planning to introduce e-wages system, which will alert the government in case foreign workers are not paid, as part of its new measures to protect the migrants.

In a shocking incident, some locals in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila have allegedly removed the dead body of a baby from grave, and left the body on the roadside.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has officially protested a news published in the Indian newspaper Anandabazar on July 7, under the headline “Bangladeshis stepping into unprotected land”.

Sixteen Indian sailors, who had been stranded in Bangladesh due to the coronavirus outbreak, leave Dhaka on a special flight of Novoair.

About one lakh people in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat are worried about flooding on the shoals and chars of the Teesta river as its waters have begun crossing the danger level.

An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic.

Health experts express apprehension that Covid-19 infection rate may take an upward trend sharply after the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha as several crore people get directly engaged in the sacrificing over one crore animals in the country.

A total of 35 lower court judges and 83 staff members of courts across the country have so far recovered after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) has asked the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to temporarily convert all school and college buildings into flood-shelters.

Nepal’s cable television operators have suspended Indian news channels for “objectionable” reporting on the country’s prime minister as tensions between the neighbours rise over a border dispute.

A Delhi court has granted bail to 82 Bangladeshi nationals who were charge-sheeted for allegedly violating visa conditions, illegally carrying out missionary activities and violating government Covid-19 lockdown guidelines while attending a congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in the Indian capital in March.

Tributes and condolences continued to pour in for veteran politician and presidium member of Awami League Sahara Khatun, who breathed her last while undergoing treatment at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand last night.

Although train service remained suspended for more than two months, at least 113 people were killed and 15 others injured in 105-rail related accidents across the country in the last six months, says a report jointly made by two rights bodies.

A Dhaka court places Regent Group Public Relations Officer Tariqul Islam alias Tareq Shibli on a five-day remand in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and charging patients for treatment.

Two workers went missing when a boat capsized in the Piyan River at Nayagangar Par in Goainghat upazila of Sylhet district early today.

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

India had another record single-day jump of 26,506 Covid-19 cases, pushing the total so far to 7,93,802, the health ministry data shows.

A mobile court jails two fraud doctors and fines three private clinics for letting them treat patients at Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur.