Ruling Awami League MP Shahiduzzaman Sarker of Naogaon-2 constituency was made the chief of the parliamentary standing committee on law ministry today.

Workers Party President and lawmaker Rashed Khan Menon, today in parliament, lambasted a parliamentary standing committee for its recommendation to take measures to find alternatives to a female upazila nirbahi officer’s (UNO) presence during the guard of honour given to valiant freedom fighters after death.

Consumers may experience disruption in gas supply from today to Wednesday due to interrupted delivery of imported liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Expressing concern over BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health, the party said that her kidney and liver are not functioning well, and that’s why keeps having fever.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid today -- at the parliament -- demanded that the law enforcement agencies bring those to book who allegedly assaulted and attempted to rape actress Pori Moni.

Brahmanbaria Railway Station, which remained closed since March 27 following violence carried out by supporters and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam, will resume its operations from tomorrow.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has allowed online recruitment tests in public universities along with in-person exams on five conditions.

Over 3,000 stranded Bangladeshi expatriates today urged the Italian government to withdraw the entry ban for travellers from Bangladesh.

The second consignment of six lakh Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses reached Dhaka this afternoon.

Declaring the detention and arrest of four children in connection with a rape case in Barishal in October last year as “illegal and contradictory to fundamental rights”, the High Court today ordered the home secretary to immediately suspend seven police personnel of Bakerganj Police Station of the district including its officer-in-charge and the probation officer and to take departmental action against them.

LGRD Minister Md Tazul Islam today asked concerned authorities to take necessary steps and ensure makeshift cattle markets are set up only in designated places maintaining health guidelines during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The authorities of Comilla University have started taking in-person examinations -- postponed due to Covid-19 situation -- from today, maintaining health guidelines.

Police in North Macedonia say officers discovered 82 migrants, including 20 Bangladeshis, hidden in vehicles in two separate operations on Friday.

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.