Four passengers, including a child and her mother, who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Spain, Italy and Singapore, have been sent to hospital, airport sources say. Three of them, except the mother, are hospitalised with high fever

Six passengers of a CNG-run three-wheeler are killed when a truck rams into it at Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

A suspected drug smuggler has been held by the police in Noakhali’s Charmatua union.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is yet to spread in the country and is still limited within a cluster, said World Health Organization Representative in Bangladesh Dr Bardan Jung Rana.

The High Court today asked the government to take necessary steps to stop price hike of masks, handwash and sanitisers, or storing them to make extra profits later.

A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of charges against four accused in connection with the murder of Sagira Morshed, who was shot dead in 1989.

A fire that broke out at a shoe factory in the capital's Shoarighat area has been doused after two and a half hours of frantic efforts.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Harun Or Rashid to death for the rape and murder of schoolgirl Samia Afrin Saima last year.

Police arrest one person in a case filed over sexually harassing a female student of Jagannath University (JnU) near Victoria Park in Old Dhaka on March 6.

The death toll in the Padma boat capsize has raised to nine after the newly-wed bride’s body was recovered.

Qatar has temporarily suspended entry for people from Bangladesh and 13 other countries as a preventive measure due to the spread of coronavirus worldwide.

Saudi Arabia imposed a temporary lockdown on its eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to most of its 15 coronavirus infections, and suspended schools and universities nationwide.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family members have applied to the home ministry for her temporary release, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir tells reporters.

A five-year-old girl is raped in the city’s Jatrabari area, the victim’s family and police says.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah says there is no reason to panic over coronavirus outbreak and those who want to perform hajj should complete their registration process on time.

Saying he felt “caged,” Pope Francis delivers his Sunday blessing over the internet from inside the Vatican instead of from a window to stop crowds gathering during Italy’s coronavirus outbreak.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government will examine the state counsels’ (deputy attorney generals) “unawareness” about the High Court’s bail to GK Shamim, a top government listed contractor, in two criminal cases.

Law enforcers say that they have arrested 13 people from different places in Kurigram for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the war of liberation in 1971.

Limon Hossain, who lost a leg after being shot by the Rapid Action Battalion in 2011, has started his career as a teaching assistant at the Department of Law of Gono University in Savar.

Mahabubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of the Farmers Bank audit committee, has been shown arrested in connection with five cases filed over amassing more than Tk 135.45crore illegally.