Manikganj’s Singair Upazila Nirbahi Officer Runa Laila has been served a show-cause notice as relief kept at the godown of UNO office were found rotten.

Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Sheikh Abdul Hannan was adorned with the new rank badge of Air Chief Marshal today.

A pick-up van driver died and several others were injured after a private car hit the vehicle in Dhaka’s Banani area early today.

Two people were killed and 10 others injured as a bus hit a truck on Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj side early today.

Libyan coast guards have rescued and detained 439 migrants, including 164 Bangladeshis, from the Mediterranean Sea as they were trying to go to Europe.

A group of contractors, who are reportedly involved in local Awami League unit and associate bodies, went to the office of Public Works Department (PWD) in Pabna while openly carrying firearms.

Dhaka city alone consumes 46 percent of the electricity Bangladesh produces, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said today, adding this is a difficult situation.

Italian police have arrested a Chinese couple, who allegedly exploited workers from Bangladesh, China and Pakistan, at a leather processing factory in central Italy.

Bangladesh has requested the Saudi government to waive the seven-day mandatory quarantine for Bangladeshi workers in the Kingdom as Dhaka will ensure quarantine here before their departure.

Three unidentified bodies were found in Naf river at Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar this afternoon, reports our local correspondent quoting police.

Air Vice Marshal Sheikh Abdul Hannan took over charges as the chief of Bangladesh Air Force this afternoon.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no. three as a low pressure has formed over northwest Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.

Awami League has announced candidates for the upcoming by-polls to three parliamentary constituencies -- Dhaka-14, Sylhet-3 and Cumilla-5.

The education ministry has decided to extend the ongoing closure of all secondary and higher secondary educational institutions till June 30, as a preventive measure against further spread of coronavirus.

Over 500 vehicles, mostly loaded trucks, are stranded at Kazirhat ferry ghat in Pabna, and Aricha ferry ghat in Manikganj due to shortage of ferries.

Two people were killed and one was seriously injured when an ambulance hit a motorcycle on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Manikganj Sadar upazila this morning.

Four people died at the coronavirus unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital -- the lowest single-day death toll in a week -- in 24 hours till this morning.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today recalled the "very difficult and challenging time" when he had launched a movement in Boston and New York for freeing Sheikh Hasina during the military-backed caretaker government in the country.

Twenty science and technology and general public universities holding uniform admission tests have postponed their entry tests due to the Covid-19 situation.

A parliamentary body today recommended respective ministries and departments to be more careful about the appointment of project directors in the implementation of various projects.