Deputy Inspector General (Chattogram Range) Anwar Hossain today termed the recent reshuffle in Cox’s Bazar police administration remarkable and said officers could expect newer postings instead of remaining in the same place.

A virtual seminar titled “Challenge and solution to prevent food loss and waste in Bangladesh” is held to mark the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Law enforcers allegedly tortured activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Union in police custody after picking them up from in front of Viqarunnisa School in Dhaka, where the BCU activists were drawing graffiti.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government today signed an agreement for $3 million in grant for procuring urgent medical supplies including the Covid-19 vaccine.

Rapid Action Battalion today arrested another accused of the case filed over the gang-rape of a woman on Friday at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet.

The Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that granted bail to daily Sangram Editor Abul Asad in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today told animal rights activists that he is willing to work towards an integrated, realistic and long-term solution for stray dog population management in the city.

Hathazari upazila administration of Chattogram seized 1,000 meters of illegal fishing net and destroyed four mechanised boats for illegally lifting sand from Halda river today.

The first consignment of 58 tonnes of Myanmar onions were unloaded at the port on Monday night after Chattogram Seaport Plant Quarantine Center issued the clearance.

Violence against “indigenous” women keeps increasing due to culture of impunity in the country, speakers said at a human chain programme in the capital today.

A Dhaka court today summarily dismissed the lawsuit filed against Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote president and former state minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim and four others for “negatively portraying” Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder and late president Ziaur Rahman in a drama titled “Indemnity”.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members today claimed to have arrested 10 members of a fraud gang for allegedly swindling a large sum of money from people in the name of providing government jobs.

Flooding in Gaibandha and Bogura is deteriorating as water levels of both Karatoa and Bangali rivers has been rising for the last seven days.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four projects involving Tk 796 crore, including a Tk 338 crore to make mouza and plot-based national digital land zoning.

The High Court today questioned a lower court order that granted bail to AKM Shamim and Gazi Salahuddin, two co-accused in a Tk 4 crore money laundering case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The 6th Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting began this afternoon with a special focus on water sharing, projects under India-financed LoC, connectivity, trade and energy cooperation, officials said.

A woman was raped while she was searching for her missing husband and sister in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj yesterday, police said.

The verdict of Rifat Sharif murder case will be delivered tomorrow.

The High Court will deliver its verdict tomorrow on the suo moto (voluntary) rule issued by this court over compensating Jaha Alam who suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

A team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd Chairman Md Abdur Razzak in a case filed on charges of supplying fake N95 masks to the Central Medical Store Depot (CMSD), the government body that sources medical supplies.