An accused in three human trafficking cases is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

The High Court has wanted to know about the present treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is now in the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for treatment.

American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has lauded Bangladesh for the generosity and leadership it has demonstrated in sheltering the Rohingyas.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said seven people including three children were killed in eastern Turkey after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit neighbouring Iran, the official Anadolu news agency reported.

At least 14 people are injured as a private car rams into a crowd in Dhaka’s Kurmitola area.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has expressed optimism about the labour market in Malaysia reopening soon as “discussion is on between the two countries”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has introduced a hotline to allow Bangladeshi expatriates to lodge complaints about irregularities and corruption.

In the run up to a planned sailing expedition involving countries of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), two Indian Navy boats have begun a three-month journey.

Fahim Rahman Aunik and Saqlaen Utsha were young Bangladeshi students living in Australia who died in a fatal car crash three years ago. It is believed they were racing on the street at very high speed, when one of the cars collided against a power pole. The police described the car to have “disintegrated”, such was the force of the collision. Both of them were from middle class families in Dhaka.

The Supreme Court fines two private universities Tk 10 lakh each for enrolling more than 50 students to their law departments in a semester, violating University Grants Commission (UGC) rules.

A Dhaka court asks the Detective Branch (DB) of police to submit the probe report of a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student by March 16.

Election to the students’ council -- a concept aimed at practicing democratic norms from childhood -- has began at all government primary schools across the country.

A woman and her daughter are killed and five others injured as a bus carrying them overturns on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

South Korea raises its infectious disease alert level to its highest for the first time since 2009 as confirmed coronavirus cases jump to 602 and the death toll rises to five.

China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 after the government says 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.

President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) Sheikh Fazle Fahim hopes that trade with China will become normal within three days.

Unidentified criminals shot a local Awami League leader to death and left five others critically injured in Bandarban Sadar upazila, police say.

Iran orders the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres after a coronavirus outbreak that has killed five people in the Islamic republic -- the most outside the Far East.

A 70-year-old man is sent to jail after he was caught red-handed by villagers while attempting to rape a minor girl and handed over to police in Thakurgaon.

The Chief Editor of Ekattor Television Mojammel Babu says it is not the government’s job to gag media, yet it continues to do so even when media broadcasts the truth.