A fire on Sunday burnt the residential camps of around 300 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece, forcing them to take shelter in others’ camps.

A mobile court on Monday fined a person Tk 50,000 for violating the government’s health safety guidelines by carrying a bride in a helicopter in Shariapur.

Militants are not capable of carrying out any major subversive attack in the country at this moment, Rab Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has said.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the bordering area of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said law profession has now become a business.

The procession to Baduria’s cremation landing with the bodies of refugees from Bangladesh was endless, reported Washington Star.

Two days after an explosion in a building in the capital’s Moghbazar, another body was recovered from the debris yesterday, raising the death toll to eight.

Anyone who goes outdoors without an urgent cause will face severe punishment during the seven-day lockdown starting tomorrow.

He was supposed to be rewarded as a teacher for identifying a flaw in the 2019-2020 admission process -- where an absent applicant was given 12th position in the merit list.

A woman went missing after a trawler capsized in Meghna river under Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district this morning.

Good news for Bangladeshi migrant workers!

Another 83 Bangladeshis were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast on Sunday when they were trying to go to Europe across the sea illegally.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.8 years in 2020 during the outbreak of coronavirus from 72.6 years in 2019, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Abul Kashem, 45, used to drive buses owned by others for 25 years and dreamed of one day owning his own bus.

Accumulated gas was behind the massive explosion at the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital’s Moghbazar on Sunday evening, said officials and experts.

Leaky gas pipes were the fourth most common cause of fires reported last year, according to Fire Service and Civil Defence data.

Bangladesh reported 8,364 new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, a record high number of daily infections since the confirmation of its first cases on March 8 last year.

The government plans to go all out to make sure that people stay at home during the “strict lockdown” to be enforced from Thursday to stem the surge in Covid deaths and infections.

A Dhaka court has ordered a freeze on eight bank accounts of former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon and his three family members as part of an investigation into an allegation of amassing illegal wealth.

The High Court yesterday granted six months’ ad-interim bail to a Manik Hawlader, an innocent man who had been serving the jail sentence handed down to actual convict Manik Miah, of Shariatpur’s Bhedarganj upazila, in connection with a drug related case.