Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved a total of nine projects worth Tk 2,744.44 crore.

The West Zone of Bangladesh Railway has earned record revenue worth Taka 11.5 crore through transporting goods in June, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A virtual court in Dhaka today rejected a bail petition of Kamal Hossain, a member of a gang linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28.

Lee Jang-keun, ambassador-designate of Korea to Bangladesh, has arrived in Dhaka, says the Korean embassy in a statement.

Awami League (AL) presidium member and former home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun leaves Dhaka for Thailand for better treatment.

The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to conduct a judicial inquiry into the allegations of police torture on college student Imran Hossainand taking “unethical benefits” from his father for releasing him from their custody.

Two alleged muggers were killed in “shootout” with detectives in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area early today.

The High Court has directed the health secretary to conduct an inquiry into the reported allegations against some private and government hospitals of denying treatment to patients during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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

Two persons have died with coronavirus-like symptoms at the intensive care unit of Cumilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours.

Two alleged Rohingya drug peddlers are killed in a gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

The unrelenting record single-day surge of Covid-19 cases takes India past Russia as the third worst-hit in terms of total number of contagion cases.

Earnings from merchandise exports in the immediate past fiscal year fell 16.93 percent year on year to $33.67billion because of Covid-19 that affected production and slowed demand for commodities.

Australian officials are closing the border between Australia’s two most populous states from Tuesday for an indefinite period as they scramble to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus in the city of Melbourne.

A female Siberian tiger attacked and killed a 55-year-old zookeeper at Zurich's zoo on Saturday, the authorities say.

Residents of remote Kalu Mro Para in Bandarban’s Lama upazila have called upon the authorities concerned to protect the forest in their village from being destroyed by alleged criminals.

Dozens of jade miners killed in a landslide in northern Myanmar were buried on Saturday, a local official says, after 77 were interred in a mass grave on Friday in one of the worst mining accidents in the country’s history.

Amid ongoing border tension between China and India following the June 15 Galwan valley standoff, actor and film producer Ajay Devgn has announced a film based on the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops. The clash led to the loss of lives of 20 Indian soldiers.

Speakers at a virtual discussion have lauded the government’s early planning and joint efforts with the UN and humanitarian partners to limit the transmission of coronavirus in the congested Rohingya camps in Bangladesh.

The import-export trade between Bangladesh and India resumed through Benapole land port this evening.