Vice-president of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed was placed on a five-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

The loss of job was over 3 per cent of the total labour force and some 1.5 crore people became new poor from the profound impact of the covid pandemic, according to a new study released today.

Detective Branch of police detained another leader of Hefajat-e-Islam from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

People in Khulna were seemingly not abiding by the rules of “strict lockdown” on the fourth day despite an alarming number of infections in the city.

At least five coal-based power plant workers were killed and 15 were injured during a clash with police in Chattogram’s Banshkhali area this morning.

Seven more supporters of Hefajat-e-Islam have been arrested in several cases filed over vandalism and arson in Brahmanbaria on March 26 and 28 centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a press release of Special Branch of district police.

A total of 208 people have been fined by mobile courts in Khulna for defying the government-imposed restrictions since the seven-day "strict lockdown" began across the country on Wednesday.

An 80-year-old man died after he was physically assaulted allegedly by Damurhuda Upazila Parishad Vice-chairman Shahidul Islam in Chuadanga today.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran today highlighted the significance of the historic Mujibnagar Day, which falls on April 17, and said the Mujibnagar government played a historic role in the freedom struggle of Bangladesh.

Four people were killed and another injured in a collision between two trucks on Bangabandhu Bridge East Link Road in Tangail's Kalihati upazila today.

Police detained Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit’s Vice-president Maulana Jubair Ahmed from his residence in the capital today.

From slogans to smear campaigns, election pledges to blame games, Bangladesh has featured heavily in the discourse of rival parties in India's ongoing West Bengal assembly polls.

Bangladesh Police are seeing a rapid rise in the number of infected personnel amid the second wave of the Covid-19 virus.

The level of infection of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia caused by Covid-19 is “extremely minimal”, her physician said based on the probationary report of a CT scan done last night.

Police today arrested a youth, who is said to have a mental condition, for the rape and assault of a 100-year-old woman in Jashore Sadar upazila's Chanchra union.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate around 100 special flights to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE and Singapore for a week from April 17 to carry migrant workers to their respective workplaces.

The job portal “Chakrir Khoj” launched by the Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia is aimed at facilitating Malaysian government’s ongoing legalisation process and ensuring welfare of the migrants, said the Bangladesh mission there in response to a Malaysian minister slamming the initiative.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized four lakh yaba pills during a drive at Lela canal point of the Naf River in Teknaf upazila today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, was on her way to a hospital in the capital to get a CT scan.

The government has imposed a 65-day ban on fishing off the Bay of Bengal to try and preserve the fish stock and boost their breeding.