The High Court has rejected a bail petition of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a case against him on charge of amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond known source of income.

The number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 has crossed 5,000 this noon, according to a tally of Police Headquarters.

Twenty-two coronavirus patients died, 2,381 were infected and 816 recovered in 24 hours in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Dhaka University Teachers’ Association has expressed condolences at the death of Prof Shakil Uddin Ahmed of Soil, Water and Environment department of the university who died with Covid-19 last night.

A 19-year-old pregnant woman died with Covid-19 symptoms one hour after her admission at Bogura’s Mohammad Ali Hospital last night.

Local airlines saw very few passengers on the first day of resumption of regular passenger flight operation on three domestic routes this morning after more than two months of flight suspension, sources at different airlines said.

Rab claims to have arrested a human trafficker who trafficked some of the 26 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Libya on May 28.

A supreme court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the high court challenging the chief justice's decision to run virtual functions of the courts across the country.

A rights organisation has filed a writ petition with the high court, challenging the government’s decision to increase bus fares by 60 percent.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rab in Gazipur’s Kashimpur area.

Police fire tear gas outside the White House as major US cities are put under curfew to suppress rioting as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality.

Road transport services, including buses and minibuses, resumed today morning after being suspended more than two months back to slow the transmission of Covid-19 in the country.

A tanker truck drives into a throng of protesters on a closed interstate near Minneapolis, with the driver pulled from his rig and beaten, as major US cities impose curfews in fear of another night of demonstrations against police brutality descending into violence.

The massive protests sweeping across US cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge crowds will lead to a new surge in cases of the coronavirus.

A professor of Dhaka University (DU) has died of Covid-19.

India has expelled two officials of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and ordered them to leave the country within 24 hours after they were apprehended by law enforcement authorities for allegedly indulging in espionage activities.

Hundreds of people have protested in London and Berlin in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States over the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.

Road transport and bridges ministry has ordered opening of a control room to monitor whether transport owners are resuming operations following the health safety guidelines issued by the authorities in this regard.

Major bus operators have accepted the new bus fare rate “considering passengers’ side” and already started selling ticket from counters.

Nearly one thousand Bangladeshis who were either in prison or detention camps in Middle East countries returned to the country in the last 24hours.