The Yunus Professional Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand was launched yesterday, March 31, in a global virtual ceremony organised by AIT.

A man and his daughter were killed and his wife was injured in a road accident today when a sand-laden truck hit his motorbike at the Tarabaria area in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna.

A Rohingya teenager whose parents are reportedly residing in a camp in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, was taken to a town in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur bordering Myanmar on Thursday to be deported to that country, the Indian media reported today quoting police officials.

A woman, who returned from Saudi Arabia early today, has left her 8-month-old daughter at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning.

A court in Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has sentenced two Bangladeshi nationals to four years imprisonment under six separate laws after convicting them of forging documents to get Indian passport.

At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades.

This year’s MBBS admission test is being held all over the country today despite rising cases of Covid-19 infections. Examinees and their guardians were seen gathering in huge numbers in front of many centres in Dhaka city.

Some Bangladeshi organisations running Microsoft Exchange mail servers have been compromised by cyberattacks, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) in an advisory.

Demanding cancellation of the directive to carry passengers at half capacity and the 60 percent hike in fares, the Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samiti today asked transport authorities to allow passengers according to each vehicle’s seat capacity while following strict health guidelines.

Bangladesh and other BIMSTEC countries have finalised the text of its charter, a master plan for transport connectivity, and a Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters to be signed at the fifth summit of the group expected to be held in Sri Lanka soon.

The Supreme Court will deliver its order on April 8 on an appeal filed by Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, challenging a High Court verdict that cleared the way for the lower court to resume the trial proceedings of a corruption case against her.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh today arrested two Indian smugglers from Bangladeshi territory near Dantbhanga border in Roumari upazila of Kurigram.

The High Court today issued an injunction restraining the authorities concerned from operating four commercial poultry farms for allegedly not having environmental clearance certificates and damaging the environment at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj for next three months.

Electric devices have been banned during tomorrow's admission test for the MBBS courses at public and private medical colleges.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against 13 accused in a case filed over murder of Taslima Begum Renu by a mob in the capital's Badda in July 2019.

The National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 today recommended closing down the Ekushey Boi Mela (Book Fair) due to the increasing Covid-19 cases in the country.

The High Court today expressed dissatisfaction with the authorities concerned of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and Shahbagh Police Station for their negligence in releasing and receiving the postmortem report in connection with Gazipur’s Al Amin murder case.

If Boro paddy can be successfully harvested across the country, there will be no risk of food shortage even amid the coronavirus pandemic, agriculture minister Md Abdur Razzak said today.

India is sending a 30-member delegation to the four-nation military exercise “Shantir Orgoshena 2021” to be held in Bangladesh from April 4 to 12, commemorating the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence.

A Dhaka tribunal today directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to investigate a case filed under Digital Security Act by Dhaka University teacher Samia Rahman.