Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, congratulating her on 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence and Mujib Borsho, seeking to fortify the existing bonds between the two countries and to build new ones for the succeeding generations.

A woman was killed on the spot after being run over by a stone-laden truck in Panchagarh today, while three others were critically injured when the truck driver tried to drive away from the spot.

Mobile phone operators today urged the government to cut corporate tax, as the local telecom operators pay the highest tax among some South Asian countries.

Two fraudsters were arrested by the Counter-Terrorism unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) early today from Khagrachhari district.

The three-day 7th Staff Talks between Indian Navy and Bangladesh Navy for further bolstering existing defence relations between the two countries in the maritime domain ended in New Delhi today.

Members of the Bomb Disposal Unit of the Counter-Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) today destroyed an old mortar shell at Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.

All secondary schools and colleges across the country will reopen on May 23, after the Eid-ul-Fitr, Education Minister Dipu Moni said this evening.

The High Court has recently released the full text of its order that asked the government to stop media from disclosing identities, photographs and workplaces of rape and sexual assault victims in line with the relevant law.

German Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz today called on Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad at the latter’s office.

The Hi-Tech Park, which is being built in the Korean Export Processing Zone in Chattogram, will emerge as a hub for ICT-centric innovative growth in tune with the digital transformation in Bangladesh, said South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he would be having “substantive discussions” with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka following the “very productive” virtual meeting between them in December last year.

The government today published a partial list of freedom fighters, containing 1,47,537 names.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, has called for an emergency summit of the UN member states, including ASEAN, European Union, the United States and China, to head off the deepening crisis in Myanmar.

The Anti-Corruption Commission today arrested a former district accounts and finance officer in Dinajpur in a corruption case.

About six years ago, when the foundation of the highly publicised game changer, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was laid, the people of Pakistan were sold a dream that the project would put them in the company of world’s prosperous people. But six years thence, the poor and middle class of the South Asian country are finding it more and more difficult to run their kitchens.

Those who were born after Muktijuddho (Liberation War), to whom do they go, to fully realize its true spirit? To answer this, we can talk about the dusty books from the libraries, memoirs written by our ancestors, or the articles printed in newspapers.

At least four volunteers of Bidyanondo Foundation were injured as miscreants attacked them while they were distributing food among children in Dhaka's Kalshi area this afternoon.

Fourteen young women and girls escaped from the government-run safe home at Mogorkhal in Gazipur city last night.

The district administration in Lalmonirhat has started an investigation against former Patgram Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Kamrun Nahar for alleged negligence on duty while Abu Yusuf Md Sahidunnabi Jewel was beaten up and burnt to death by a mob in October last year.

Thirty-four people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).