Two Kuwaiti lawmakers have been accused of money laundering and aiding and abetting Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam, who is now in custody on charges of human trafficking and money laundering, prosecution investigation revealed, Gulf News has reported.

Police have recovered the body of a schoolboy two days after he was abducted from near his home in Shariatpur’s Jajira upazila.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Md Mahabubor Rahman has made a full recovery from coronavirus after 19 days of treatment.

Pope Francis has donated 35 ventilators in recent weeks to various countries, of which two were sent to Bangladesh to support the fight against coronavirus.

Malaysian teen has become an Internet sensation almost overnight after a video she uploaded recently caught the eye of viewers on YouTube.

European Union countries have failed to settle on a final “safe list” of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded.

Local journalists today formed a human chain in Habiganj demanding withdrawal of a case filed against two reporters under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on March 15.

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who was seeking a return to the premier's seat for a third time, has now thrown his support behind Parti Warisan Sabah leader Shafie Apdal as the opposition's Prime Minister-designate in the event of snap polls.

Many students in the country’s remote areas are deprived of TV and internet facilities, and hence they are unable to access the classes.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has recovered from Covid-19 after 11 days of treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder says the government will be in a tough position if anyone is found involved in increasing rice price through malpractices during the precarious coronavirus situation.

Authorities have put parts of Delhi on high alert against a possible attack by crop-destroying locusts whose swarms descended on neighbouring Gurgaon in Haryana state, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Several thousand workers, mostly women, of Hong Kong-based wig factory Evergreen BD Ltd in Nilphamari’s Uttara EPZ, have set fire to the factory and other infrastructures protesting the “long-time oppressive measures” of the factory authority.

The national death rate from Covid-19 infection is around 1.3 percent but in police force it is only 0.5 percent as standard treatment facilities have been ensured for personnel in police hospitals.

Two Bangladeshis were allegedly injured by BSF at the border of Chuadanga on Friday night. Of them one had severe injuries from a bayonet, said a doctor at the Chuadanga Sadar Hospital.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today said that the government is considering cutting down exam days and subjects of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations that had been postponed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Around 78 shops and houses in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban have been burnt to ashes in a devastating fire.

Many guardians expressed their dissatisfaction as South Point School and College held admission test to enrol English medium students yesterday amid closure of schools aiming to stem further spread of coronavirus.

“Open the packet and put on the card around the neck and it will work as a disinfectant.”

Another staffer of Bangladesh Police dies from a Covid-19 infection at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.