A man and his daughter were killed and his wife was injured in a road accident yesterday when a sand-laden truck hit their motorbike at Tarabaria in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna.

A staffer of Sylhet city’s Hotel Noorjahan Grand was arrested yesterday over sexual harassment of a woman staying at the hotel for mandatory institutional quarantine upon returning from the UK.

A baby girl was rescued by Armed Police Battalion (APBn) at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday after she was purportedly abandoned by her Saudi Arabia returnee mother.

With the sharp rise of Covid-19 cases, port city is facing a major crisis of available intensive care unit (ICU) beds. With around 60 such beds dedicated for Covid-19 patients in the city’s public and private hospitals, people are running from one hospital to another, only to find out that almost all the beds are already occupied.

More than 58 percent of brick kilns are being operated illegally in Barishal division, according to the Department of Environment.

A record surge in fresh Covid-19 cases in the country has forced authorities concerned to close the Bangladesh National Zoo in the capital's Mirpur as well as Rangpur Zoo.

A woman, who returned from Saudi Arabia early today, has left her 8-month-old daughter at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport this morning.

The UN Refugee Agency has made urgent calls across the region to offer refuge and protection to all those fleeing Myanmar for safety amid escalating violence.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad through its two-day National Council Meeting 2021 called for women’s economic, political, and social empowerment and prevention of gender-based violence and demanded the necessary law reformations.

Against the backdrop of increasing Covid-19 cases, Chattogram district administration has banned all sorts of public gatherings in the city until April 14.

Dhaka wants seamless multi-modal connectivity and enhanced trade and investment in the BIMSTEC region.

Two prosecution witnesses, including a brother of Army chief Gen Aziz Ahmed, yesterday gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in the case filed over the murder of Sayeed Ahmed Tipu, after around ten years.

Dipthandu Dip Roy Bablu’s family was thrown into uncertainty when his young son was diagnosed with autism. Bablu was at his wit’s end to figure out how he would get treatment for the young Debabrata Roy in Kusumbagh area of Moulvibazar sadar upazila.

In addition to bus capacity being slashed to half, ride-sharing using motorcycles was banned beginning yesterday, leaving commuters in the capital in despair.

Recently, there’s a new Ethereum blockchain-based unit of data based around digital art and other collectables. Called Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), some of these tokens are being sold for as high as 69 million US dollars. This has led many to claim NFT’s as the digital answer to collectables, while sceptics think it a fad that will soon die out.

To spread the ideals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman among students, bKash will distribute 20,000 copies of the graphic novel “Mujib” in 500 Bengali and English medium schools across the country this year.

Prof Niaz Ahmed Khan joined as the pro-vice chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) yesterday.

A row has been created after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) implicated two tax officials of Chattogram in the charge sheet of a case filed against a sub-inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and his wife for amassing wealth worth Tk 1.38 crore from unknown sources.

Electric devices have been banned during tomorrow's admission test for the MBBS courses at public and private medical colleges.

Chattogram Zoo has been declared closed for two weeks from today due to a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in the port city.