The body of a newborn was found in Dhaka’s Gulistan area.

At least 40-50 BNP leaders and activists and 12 policemen were injured in a clash between the party men and police in Naogaon today.

Although the government has again instructed 14-days institutional quarantine of passengers returning from India to prevent Covid-19 infection in the country, doing so may not be possible now.

A nayeb-e-amir of central Hefajat-e-Islam Abdul Awal today allegedly announced his resignation due to a difference of opinion in observing the recent hartal and protest programme.

Two people were killed today and one was critically injured as a train of Modhumati Express collided with a soil-laden truck on the Rajbari-Bhanga railway at Basantapur union of Rajbari Sadar upazila.

Seven cases have been filed so far in connection with the mayhem carried out by Hefajat-e Islam in Brahmanbaria from Friday.

A former Pakistani diplomat has said the people of Pakistan should urge the Pakistani government to offer a formal apology to the people of Bangladesh for the atrocities its military committed in 1971.

A cargo vessel carrying coal sank in the Katakhali area of Pashur River today due to excessive water current.

When Hamida Parvin returned home to Bangladesh for a month’s holiday from her job as a nanny in Qatar last February, she was excited to see her 17-year-old son after a year apart.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has banned the carrying of firearms and holding of rallies, processions, or agitation in and around the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban ahead of the 12th session of the 11th parliament, which is scheduled to begin on April 1.

At least 100 people were injured in two separate clashes between BNP men and police in Kishoreganj town today.

Six cases have been filed against 2,925 people last night in connection with clashes between law enforcers and Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Narayanganj during Sunday’s countrywide hartal enforced by the Islamist group.

Three persons were sentenced to one year in prison (each) by a mobile court for transporting 30maund of jatka (hilsa fry) in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila.

Retired Major General AMSA Amin today announced a new political party called “Noitik Samaj”.

Trust Bank Ltd has appointed Humaira Azam as its first female managing director.

An unidentified person was hit by a train while passing through a railway crossing in Jashore’s Abhaynagar upazila today.

Hefajat-e-Islam will be resisted the same way BNP-Jamaat was in 2013, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said today.

Eleven distinguished personalities today issued a statement urging the government and people of Bangladesh to boldly resist the destructive attempts and activities by Hefajat-e-Islam and anti-liberation forces as the nation celebrates Mujib Borsho and golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.

The district administration started a much-awaited eviction drive along the Ichamati river in Pabna to free it from the structures illegally built on the river land.

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists handed over two Dhaka University (DU) students to Shahbagh police yesterday -- suspecting them to be members of the banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir.