Vehicular communication through Pabna is set to be hampered as its transport owners and workers are likely to enforce an indefinite strike from this morning in protest of extortion and harassment by their counterparts in Shahzadpur upazila on the highway to Sirajganj.

Three members of a family were killed and another man was critically injured when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran into a mail train at the Shashongachha level crossing in Cumilla yesterday morning.

Bangladesh recorded 22 more deaths from Covid-19 and 1,235 new infections in 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.

A joint venture company that includes China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been awarded the Cox’s Bazar airport runway expansion work for Tk 1,568.86 crore.

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction restraining electronic, print and social media, including Facebook and YouTube, from broadcasting and publishing statements, interviews and conversations of fugitive convicts and accused under trial until further notice.

The import policy for the shipping period January-June, 1973, announced by Commerce Minister MR Siddiqui today envisages import of goods worth Tk 219 crore.

Police yesterday arrested three Jubo League activists in Nagarkanda upazila for assaulting a doctor, nurse and an office assistant during the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination programme.

Russian investigators on Tuesday opened a criminal probe into Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, alleging he used more than 356 million rubles ($4.8 million) of donations to his organisations for personal purposes including holidays abroad.

The quarterfinal line-up for the Walton Federation Cup was completed yesterday, with four former champions advanced into the knockout stages after the final round of group-stage matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said yesterday that Qatar’s ruler is invited to the bloc’s summit meeting next week amid efforts to heal rifts between Doha and a Saudi-led alliance.

Four persons, including a five-year-old child, were killed in an accident on Sylhet-Zakiganj road in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early yesterday.

The World Health Organization warned that pandemics far more deadly than Covid-19 may lie ahead, as South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from yesterday after a surge in coronavirus cases.

Fifty journalists and media workers were killed in connection with their work in 2020, the majority in countries that are not at war, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.

An Indian “smuggler” was shot dead by the members of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in Mymenshingh’s Halaughat upazila early yesterday, said BGB.

The ruling Awami League-nominated candidates achieved victory in 18 municipalities out of 24 while their arch-rival BNP-nominated candidates won in two municipalities and independent candidates in three.

The first ship has moored at the deep-sea port in Matarbari in Cox’s Bazar.

People will not get immediate respite from the bone-chilling cold as the country may not see any major improvement in weather conditions in the coming days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the people of the country are now reaping the benefits of democracy as they got back their state power from the cantonment.

A swan mourning the death of its companion on a German railway track held up 23 trains for almost an hour and had to be removed by firefighters using special equipment, police said.

Golam Rasulkar and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, minister for supplies and minister for public works respectively, of the Indian State of Kashmir who are now on a private visit to Bangladesh call on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today.