Bangladeshi traders have urged the West Bengal state authorities to allow resuming shipment of goods from Bangladesh to India, officials said today.

The Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) recently bought six vehicles including a private car by saving money from government allocation for different sectors to facilitate smooth patrolling.

Kuwait public prosecution has approached the Central Bank to freeze the bank accounts of the Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam and his company, who were being held in connection with cases related to human trafficking, visa selling and money laundering, according to Arab Times.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Sunday said a partial annular eclipse of the sun will be visible in Dhaka’s sky at 11:23am.

Veteran journalist Abed Khan has been diagnosed with Covid-19, alongside all the members of his household.

Three people are killed and another three seriously injured when a man went on a stabbing spree in a park in the southern English town of Reading on Saturday, though police said they were not currently treating the incident as terrorism.

President Donald Trump has addressed a smaller-than-expected crowd with criticism of anti-racism protests at a rally meant to reinvigorate his re-election campaign amid US racial unrest and a still-strong coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly 50,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Brazil, the world No. 2 hotspot, with 1,022 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry has said.

A Covid-19 patient apparently “died by suicide” in Dhaka’s Shyamoli early today after escaping from a hospital.

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Recruitment exams under the Khulna district administration were held in the district today despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Two children go missing while bathing in Jamuna river near Sariakandi upazila of Bogura.

From now on, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will have a close watch on the city’s traffic movement and crime detection as the authority increased four new Superintendent of Police (SP) rank officers’ posts in the Traffic Department and Detective Branch (DB) respectively.

His workplace and home are 150 yards apart, a distance that takes no more than five minutes to cover.

The Detective Branch of Police (DB) seized around 1.80 lakh yaba tablets worth around Tk 5.40 crore and arrested three alleged drug peddlers from Bandarban's Naikhanchhari and Cox's Bazar's Ramu upazilas early today.

Twenty lower court judges, 24 Supreme Court staff and 59 staff of subordinate courts across the country have so far been infected with Covid-19.

Halda River, the lone breeding ground for natural spawning of carp fish in South Asia, has seen second spawning -- a month after having the first laying of eggs by brood fish on May 22.

Another doctor, who was infected with Covid-19, has died at United Hospital in Dhaka.

Election Commission extends the tenure of two-year-long temporary National Identification (NID) for indefinite period.

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif left the country for Canada yesterday morning.