Another police official, who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka today.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to implement a 25 percent hike inwater price that it fixed earlier.

A tenth grader was allegedly raped by a youth in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.6 years in 2019, as compared to 72.3 years in 2018, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

The government will convert a temporary ordinance into a permanent law in order to continue operating virtual court systems after the Covid-19 pandemic, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.

The final results of the 38th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations will be published today.

While airlifting a launch around twelve hours after it capsized on the Buriganga river, rescue workers recovered a man who swam up from the capsize site.

Two minor boys drowned in a pond at Gilabari village in Aditmari upazila on Sunday.

Tourism-related set-ups including hotels and motels in Kuakata will reopen for visitors tomorrow, after a closure imposed by the administration three and a half months ago due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Galachipa upazila project implementation officer (PIO) has allegedly demanded Tk 4 lakh as bribe from a contractor when the latter applied for a final bill after completion of the construction work of a culvert in Dakua union.

The Teesta has continued devouring homesteads, arable lands and orchards at Char Gokunda, a river basin village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila during the last one week.

After three years of pressing the first charge sheet, members of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) on Monday pressed its second charge sheet against 10 people including Nur Mohammed, Chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Group, and his brother Mostaq Ahmed, under the Special Powers Act in a much-talked-about cocaine haul case filed with Bandar Police Station on June 28, 2015.

The government has decided to appoint former Inspector General of Police Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia.

Roads and Highway Department (RHD) has restricted vehicular movement on one of the four lanes of the busy First Bangladesh-China Friendship (Buriganga-1) bridge in Postogola since 6:00pm, as a crack developed after a rescue ship hit the bridge today noon.

Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan has been appointed as the chairman of Bangla Academy for the next three years.

Former national footballer Md Lutfar Rahman, a member of the independent Bengali football team, died in Jashore today at the age of 69.

Expressing her profound shock and sorrow at the deaths in a launch capsize in the Buriganga river, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she is enquiring about the rescue initiative round the clock.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Australian High Commission jointly handed over personal protective equipment to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

Flood situation in Jamalpur has worsened further as the Jamuna river was flowing 84 cm above danger mark (19.5m) at Bahadurabad Ghat point in Dewanganj upazila.

Two people of a family were killed when a streak of lightning struck them in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat on Saturday.