The High Court yesterday ordered the government to suspend the state gallantry awards for four convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reasserts in unambiguous terms today that the trial of war criminals must be held on Bangladesh soil.

At least seven people, including a bride, died after a trawler carrying members of a wedding party capsized in the Meghna river in Noakhali’s Hatia yesterday.

Bangladesh and South Korea want to take their bilateral relationship to new heights – going beyond textile to ICT, energy, blue economy, climate change and infrastructure development, said diplomats and academicians, as the two countries celebrate 47th year of diplomatic relationship on December 18.

The Department of Narcotics Control handed over a list of 49 clandestine labs in Myanmar to that country’s Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), hoping that they would take stern actions to stop yaba smuggling into Bangladesh.

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world’s biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted charge sheet before court against 14 persons in a case filed over gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.

The High Court yesterday acquitted all five people, who were sentenced to death by a lower court in Netrokona, in a case filed for the abduction and gang rape of a teenage girl in 2002, as the allegations brought against them were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Two employees, including a security guard, of two shipbreaking firms in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila died yesterday morning after falling sick at their workplaces.

Five government officials yesterday apologised to the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division for failing to comply with its order to appoint a woman as a primary school teacher in 15 days.

Canada yesterday began a roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, just days after becoming one of the first countries to approve the treatment.

Following a hearing of a case filed by the authorities of social media giant Facebook against a Bangladeshi firm called A1 Software, a Dhaka court has banned the “facebook.com.bd” domain in Bangladesh.

At least 37 people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the DGHS.

A court in Chattogram yesterday sentenced eight people to death and fined them Tk 1 lakh each for murdering a nine-year-old girl after gang-raping her in the port city’s Akbar Shah area in 2018.

Electors gathered in state capitols across the country yesterday to formally vote for Joe Biden as the next US president, effectively ending President Donald Trump’s frenzied but failing attempt to overturn his loss in the November 3 election.

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change yesterday decided to conduct drives to evict illegal grabbers of protected forest land.

Abdus Samad could not harvest a single grain of coriander (dhoney) or sesame (til) or an ounce of jute from his five bighas of land due to this year’s prolonged flood.

Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi has sent a message today felicitating Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion

An intensive care unit nurse became the first person in the United States to receive the newly authorized Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, calling it a sign that “healing is coming” as the US coronavirus death toll approaches 300,000.

Amar Ekushey Boi Mela-2021 will be held as usual, not virtually as previously reported, but will start later than the scheduled February 1.