The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken up a special project worth Tk 35crore to build 12 bridges in Patuakhali municipality. The bridges will be designed to emulate bridges in Dhaka's Hatirjheel area.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party urged the Election Commission to suspend the work of preparing law for political parties in getting their registration due to ongoing coronavirus situation.

Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested nearly 200 people on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China that critics say is aimed at snuffing out dissent.

Artists, animators, and cartoonists have shared their views on how they are making the best use of their lives within four walls of home amid coronavirus epidemic -- keeping in mind that every cloud has a silver lining.

The investigation officer has interrogated four accused, including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, for two working days at jail gate in connection with a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Forty-one 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), said during a briefing.

Apprehending a rise in coronavirus cases due to cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today urged authorities concerned to take necessary steps in this regard and reduce the number of cattle markets if needed.

Latifur Rahman (Shamim), 75, has passed away in his sleep at 11 am in his paternal home in Cumilla.

The Supreme Court today stayed for 16 weeks a High Court order that granted bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for the officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

Kuwait’s interior ministry official Major General Mazen Al-Jarrah has been suspended on suspicion that he accepted bribes and was involved in financial transactions linked to the human trafficking and money laundering case against Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam.

India recorded the highest single-day death count of 507 due to coronavirus, taking the total toll to 17,400, according to health ministry data.

US-based private equity firm Carlyle Group will acquire a 25 percent stake in Airtel's wholly-owned subsidiary data centre business, Nxtra Data based in New Delhi, for $235 million (Rs 1,780 crore), the company said today.

A teenage boy was arrested on charges of raping a madrasa student in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila yesterday, said police.

A special flight of US-Bangla Airlines has brought back 152 Bangladeshis stranded in Abu Dhabi due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

A virtual court in Dhaka has sent photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol to jail on completion of his two-day remand in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Nineteen people have been killed and six injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported, quoting state officials.

Nineteen people have been killed and six injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported, quoting state officials.

The government has issued an order extending its restrictions on public activities and movement across the country until August 3 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

India has deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.

Dataful, a Bangladeshi startup, has secured a place among the top nine startups to compete in the finale of the accelerator programme of Startup Istanbul 2020, a global startup event based in Turkey.