Former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur was sued in another case filed under the Digital Security Act in Cumilla today for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Awami League leaders.

The Netherlands seeks an “accommodating business climate” for foreign investment and trade, as well as adherence to global labour and environmental standards, in order to attract more foreign investment and business to Bangladesh.

Metro train coaches have reached Dhaka. Work is going on day and night.

An apprentice lawyer was killed in a road accident in Feni’s Lalpur area on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway this afternoon.

A senior assistant superintendent of police was transferred while an inspector and sub-inspector were withdrawn yesterday over allegations of concealing 88 bottles of phensedyl seized during a drive on April 3.

A 19-rear-old was arrested in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over a derogatory Facebook comment about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sammilita Samajik Andolon, a citizen's platform, today demanded the government to stop giving admission to non-indigenous students in the reserved or quota seats allotted for ethnic minority students.

Family members of a man who died in Chattogram early Tuesday said he was a employee of SS Power I Plant at Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila and succumbed to bullet wounds sustained during police firing at the plant on April 17.

Bangladesh has taken up the issue of speeding up delivery of about five lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines with India through diplomatic channels to ensure momentum of the vaccination drive in that country, diplomatic sources in India said today.

Jatiya Party today accused the government of harassing its leaders and activists in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon over the vandalism at Royal Resort in Sonargaon.

At the moment, people have various misconceptions and confusion regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. How safe are those who have been vaccinated?

Oman has decided to impose a ban on passengers coming from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in the wake of rising coronavirus cases.

The US Embassy in Bangladesh will remain closed for routine US citizen services as the government extended a stricter lockdown for a week beginning tomorrow to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

Detective branch of police arrested one more Hefajat-e-Islam leader from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

European Union officials unveiled proposals Wednesday for reining in high-risk uses of artificial intelligence such as live facial scanning that could threaten people’s safety or rights.

Syria’s last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a refrigerated truck offloading over 50,000 of United Nations-secured jabs in the overcrowded province.

The Serum Institute of India will be able to raise its monthly output of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to 100 million doses by July from 60-70 million now, later than a previous timeline of end-May, its chief executive Adar Poonawalla told CNBC-TV18.

The first set of metro train reached Dhaka today -- a major development in the country’s first ever metro rail project.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain today constituted two more High Court benches to virtually hear and dispose of urgent cases during the ongoing restrictions imposed due to surge of Covid-19 pandemic.

The minimum Fitra for this year has been set at Tk 70 per person while the maximum at Tk 2,310.