The World Bank (WB) has approved $200 million to help Bangladesh improve access to safe water and sanitation services in rural areas.

Flood situation in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat has deteriorated further as water of Dharla river is still flowing above the danger level.

A woman has been raped allegedly by a group of men at the hostel of Murari Chand College in Sylhet.

A motorcycle rider has died while two others are injured as the vehicle hits a road divider in Sylhet city’s Akalia area.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually address the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York tomorrow.

All the expatriate Bangladeshis who are scheduled to fly for Saudi Arabia tonight have tested negative for Covid-19. Health officials have said the passengers can go to airport and receive printed copies of Covid-19 negative certificates from the health desk by showing the text messages sent to them.

An elderly woman has been killed and four others are injured as a passenger bus hits a human hauler in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila.

China has expressed interest in the Teesta river management project, Zaheed Farooque, state minister for water resources, said today.

Police in Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila are looking to arrest a teacher who allegedly poured hot tea on a seven-year-old student as punishment, causing burn injuries.

Two students went missing after a boat capsized in the Padma river near Rajshahi city this afternoon.

Two teenage boys drowned to death after a fishing trawler capsized in Meghna river in Noakhali’s Hatiya upazila due to stormy weather.

Mohammad Arif and his father Mohammad Shahidullah's flight to Saudi Arabia is at 12:30am tonight. But they have not yet received their Covid-19 certificates. They are counting every minute at a hotel in Dhaka's Fakirapool as they can't go to Saudi Arabia without the certificate. They don't know when to start for the airport.

Students of different schools, colleges and universities today organised a rally in Manikganj demanding necessary steps to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Rights organisation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today expressed deep concern over the recent incidents of rape and sexual assault in different parts of the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked Bangladeshi diplomats to reinforce economic diplomacy for expanding trade and business to achieve economic self-reliance for the country.

A teenage girl was sexually harassed in public by a group of unruly young men in Puniyaut of Brahmanbaria municipality.

The government has appointed Md Nazrul Islam, currently serving as the Director General of Multilateral Economic Affairs Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new ambassador to Ethiopia.

The body of a college student who went missing four days back was recovered from near a paddy field at Aushia village in Shoilakupa upazila of Jhenaidah last night.

A total of 1,340 police personnel including eight officers-in-charge (OCs), 29 Inspectors and constables are going to join in Cox’ Bazar district police.

Due to excessive rainfall in country’s north-eastern region and India’s Meghalaya, river water level is rising, increasing the possibility of a flood situation being triggered in Sylhet and Sunamganj.