A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband for dowry in Chatmohar upazila on Sunday night.

Flood-hit people in different parts of Sirajganj are not seeing any immediate respite from their sufferings although floodwater has started receding from Saturday. Meanwhile, water level in the Jamuna river has started to rise again. As a result, many new areas in six upazilas of the district have been flooded in the last one week.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen urged Spain to recruit agricultural labourers from Bangladesh during the post-Covid pandemic period considering their skills in grain production.

Bangladesh’s policy to set up coal-fired power plants will result in a long-term financial burden, a speaker say at a webinar.

Nasiruddin Mridha, sukani (launch employee), confesses before a magistrate that it was his negligence which led to vessel Moyur-2 hitting another launch--Morning Bird--in Buriganga river on June 29, killing at least 34 people.

Class XI admission seekers will have to submit their online applications between August 9 and 20 in the first phase, authorities said today.

A Dhaka court gives police 10 more working days to complete the investigation into the allegation brought against 219 returnees from Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

The government will resume air-connectivity on the Dhaka-Rajshahi-Dhaka route from tomorrow as the sixth domestic destination, following reopening of air travel to Chattogram, Sylhet, Saidpur, Jashore and Barishal since the suspension of flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Three teachers have been arrested on charges of spreading rumours against Education Minister Dipu Moni and a few others on Facebook.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader calls upon all authorities concerned to work together to protect people from the risk of coronavirus spread --centring journey ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

The prime accused in a police officer murder case has been killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Brahmanbaria.

Pregnant women in the flood-hit areas of Kurigram who have left home and taken shelter on the government roads, dykes built by the Water Development Board and railway lines are facing health risks.

Mohsin Hossain Bablu, editor and publisher of Satkhira daily newspaper Ajker Potrika, died with breathing complications at a hospital in the district town.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a suspected robber in Madaripur’s Rajoir upazila yesterday.

Police on Saturday night arrested a youth in connection with a case for raping a minor girl in Jashore town same day.

Around 100 families of two villages in Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh district have been suffering a lot during monsoon for the last four years due to waterlogging as local influential people blocked the passage of a culvert at Charpara after building houses.

Bangladesh has extended its support to the UAE’s candidature for the post of the president in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan’s father, Mashrur Reza, has tested positive for coronavirus.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of two accused, including brother-in-law of Regent Group Managing Director Masud Parvez, and sent them to jail in a case filed over possession of 2,110 pieces of Yaba pills and 10 bottles of phensidyl.

A Dhaka court today sent JKG Health Care Chief Executive Officer Ariful Chowdhury and one of his associates Sayeed Chowdhury to jail in a case filed for issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.