WhatsApp is being criticised globally for its security issues and forced to delay the enforcement of its newest privacy policy. This resulted in a rise of non-mainstream apps like Signal, Telegram and Line to rise up. Among these, BiP seems to have caught on with Bangladeshi netizens.

A domestic help who tortured an elderly woman and fled with cash and valuables on Monday from her employer’s house in the capital was arrested yesterday.

Police have arrested driver of a local Awami League leader with a stolen motorcycle in Ashulia of Savar.

Deputy Attorney General Debashish Bhattacharyya has resigned from his office.

Department of Environment yesterday launched a Tk 47.98 crore project to control noise pollution, which will be implemented in the next three years.

Alhaj Rafique Uddin Bhuiyan, former president of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (Narayanganj district) and son of late Gul Baksh Bhuiyan, has passed away on Monday. He was 67.

Awami League may take disciplinary actions against party’s “rebel candidates” before the Chattogram City Corporation elections.

Over 100 leaders and activists of BNP have been made accused in three cases over violence centring the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) elections.

The government is planning to build a new diplomatic zone in Dhaka’s Purbachal area due to a shortage of land in Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic zones, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Supporters of a ward-level ruling party leader in Barishal on Wednesday night blocked a highway, shut down bus and launch services for over three hours.

With the Covid-19 pandemic having severe impact on the media industry at large in Bangladesh, the future will be “digital-first”, experts of the field said at a programme yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said that government is planning to set up a new diplomatic zone at Purbachal in Dhaka due to shortage of land in Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic zone.

Officials of Dhaka North City Corporation faced obstruction when they were conducting an eviction drive in Mirpur section 11, block-C today.

The domestic help who brutally tortured an elderly woman and fled with cash and valuables on Monday from her employer’s Malibagh house was arrested early today.

Two ruling Awami League lawmakers yesterday demanded that the government take measures to reopen all educational institutions, as the long closure of schools and colleges are hindering students.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam yesterday said they will recover occupied portions of 13 canals from encroachers in 18 extended wards of DNCC.

It was early morning on September 15, 2019. Sergeant Md Shahidul Islam went to Abhaynagar Police Station in Jashore with members of the bomb disposal unit of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6).

Raisuddin Ahmed, a former director of Biman, and former general secretary and vice president of Bangladesh Cricket Board, passed away yesterday, at the age of 82.

Today is the first death anniversary of former lawmaker and state minister Ismat Ara Sadique.

Environmental activists and locals demanded at a human chain yesterday that the Majumdar Bari Dighi (large pond) and others ponds in Sylhet city be saved from grabbing and destruction.