Rab arrested three alleged drug dealers along with 975 grams of crystal meth from Chattogram's Patharghata area last night.

The closure of Dhaka-Chattogram highway, due to the repair work of Langalbandh bridge in ​​Bandar upazila of Narayanganj, created severe traffic congestion on the route since this morning.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today indicated that Bangladesh will soon receive large numbers of Covid-19 vaccine doses from several sources, including under the COVAX facility.

The Cabinet Division has issued a gazette notification, saying that a two-week countrywide "strict lockdown" will start from July 23, 6:00am after an eight-day break.

Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has asked the home ministry to take necessary steps to allow pet shops in Dhaka's Kataban area to open for two hours every morning and in the evening for taking care of the animals during the lockdown.

A man died after a truck hit a van in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area this morning.

The Cabinet Division has issued a gazette notification, relaxing all conditions of the ongoing "strict lockdown" for eight days -- ahead of Eid-ul-Azha -- to facilitate business and public movement.

The three suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives, who were arrested in Kolkata on Sunday, are part of a group of 15 men who entered West Bengal from Bangladesh earlier this year, Kolkata police said.

Nineteen patients died while undergoing treatment at the Covid units of four Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.

Police have arrested four people in two separate cases filed over raping a 19-year-old woman and assaulting her husband in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh.

The government has extended Barrister Mahbubur Rahman tenure as chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Bangladesh Police on a contract basis for another year.

A journalist of a local newspaper was assaulted by land grabbers in Barakhata area of Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila on Sunday, police said.

Police have filed a case under the Digital Security Act against one Foysol Kadir, who claimed himself to be a journalist, over going live on Facebook after a traffic sergeant seized his motorcycle for violating traffic rules.

If you have more than one car, SUV or minivan -- be it individually or jointly owned -- you have to pay 50 percent more income tax for each of such vehicles from the current fiscal year.

Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday claimed to have arrested five persons, including a couple, from Dhaka’s Badda area on charge of producing fake notes and circulating those in the market.

Teachers and employees of Government Mahtab Uddin Degree College in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila cannot go to its office to carry out necessary activities as the college ground has been submerged in rainwater for about a month.

The flow in a three-kilometre stretch of the Ratnai river in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila has weakened following its excavation by a contractor of the Local Government Engineering Department, allege local farmers.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead yesterday, allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force on Hingalganj border in India’s North 24 Parganas district, opposite Satkhira’s Kaliganj frontier.

Still reeling from Thursday’s fire tragedy, workers of Hashem Foods Limited now hang in the dark over their salary and Eid bonus payment, as the factory suspended its activities, and its owner and high officials were arrested.

Kawsar Hossain, an explosive expert of the IS inspired militant outfit Neo-JMB, tried to build a militant den in the hilly area of Bandarban to   establish links with militants in nearby Myanmar’s Arakan.