Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda urges election officials and law enforcers to ensure polling agents’ security and smooth access to voting centres during the March 29 Chattogram City Corporation election.

Social media giant Facebook has started rolling out a new, redesigned User Interface (UI), with the option of switching to "Dark Mode" for high contrast social media browsing.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University chalks out elaborate programmes, including free medical treatment, to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children's Day on March 17.

Five people were killed and 25 others injured in a collision between a bus and truck on the Dhaka-Khulna highway this afternoon.

South Korea is fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by relying on its technological forte. The country has an advanced digital platform for big-data mining, along with artificial intelligence (AI) and Koreans are leading the technological front, with Samsung competing closely with Apple.Inc of USA.

Colleagues and peers of the Kurigram journalist who was arrested and sentenced to one-year imprisonment earlier today strongly protested the incident.

Bangladeshi expatriates in Canada will organise a three-day voluntary blood donation programme from March 17 to mark Mujib Borsho.

A newborn has tested positive for coronavirus in the UK, making the baby possibly one of the youngest cases in the country, UK’s local media reported.

In a bid to become the first “digital city” of the country, Sylhet now provides free high-speed internet to its residents through WiFi connection.

Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals, quarantined in the suburbs of the Indian capital for 14 days, arrive home.

Three people involved with the MN Larma faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) have been abducted, police said.

Emirates is operating its last flight from Rome today for the time being, said a press release from the airline.

A child is trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 14, 2020

A mobile court -- under a taskforce of Kurigram district administration -- sentences a journalist to one-year imprisonment for “possessing drugs”, after he was arrested from his house.

A fire that broke out at Jhutpatti slum in Mirpur-10 area of the capital this afternoon was brought under control after around three hours of frantic efforts of fire-fighters and locals.

The third patient, out of the three reported coronavirus cases in Bangladesh, have been diagnosed negative.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines suspends its flight to Kathmandu for March 15 and 17, as the Himalayan country stops on-arrival visa over fear of coronavirus spread.

Saudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for two weeks, starting Sunday, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, state news agency SPA said on Saturday, citing an official source at interior ministry.

A man and his wife are burnt in an explosion “caused by a gas line leak” at a house in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.