Thirteen people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least eight buses and a minibus were torched in different parts of Dhaka within a span of a few hours this afternoon.

A tribunal in Dhaka today fixed November 19 for delivering verdict in the case filed over the rape of a DU student in the capital's Kurmitola this year.

Zoynul Abedin, proprietor of Hanif Paribahan, died of Covid-19 last night at the age of 87.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced a man to life term imprisonment today, for raping a four-year-old girl in Nawabganj in 2018.

Jagannath University student Tithy Sarkar went into hiding and faked her own abduction in order to create diversion from the allegation of her “hurting religious sentiment”, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said during a press briefing at its headquarters in Malibagh.

The by-polls to Dhaka-18 constituency has ended with an overall low turnover of voters. Only 274 votes had been cast at two polling centers in Starlit School of English over four hours. The by-election started around 8:00am. The total number of voters at the centres are 4,861.

Today is the 21st death anniversary of Hasna Hena Qadir, one of the founders of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.

Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Tuesday night conducted a drive against the rampant business of selling physicians’ samples of medicines at Modern Medicine Market in Rajshahi city’s Laxmipur.

Three youths were killed after a truck hit a motorcycle at Nagarpur upazila yesterday.

Organising secretary of Cox’s Bazar District Awami League Naznin Sarwar Kaberi yesterday demanded resignation of advocate Rana Dasgupta from his prosecutor post of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), over disrespecting the constitutional secularism through representing former Teknaf Police Station Officer-in-Charge Pradeep Kumar Das in court.

With no necessary tools, including oxygen support, in most hospitals, the issue of childhood pneumonia -- which causes more than 24,000 preventable deaths of children under five in the country annually -- is getting little importance during the pandemic, experts said yesterday.

Ninety-four percent of students are aware about TV education being broadcast during the pandemic, but 89 percent of them do not watch the lessons, reveals a study.

With speculations and rumours running rife on social media as to who actually detained suspended sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan from near the border area, Sylhet district police have said it took a “cross-border operation” to arrest him.

Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1 constituencies are going to by-polls today.

Renowned magician Jewel Aich, who recently contracted Covid-19, is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of Combined Military Hospital in the capital.

Former governor of Bangladesh Bank Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri passed away at a city hospital yesterday. He was 86.

Police recovered the hanging bodies of a man and his son from a flat of Moghbazar in the capital this evening.

Fire broke out at two adjacent knitting factories in Narayanganj Sadar upazila this evening.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today sealed off International Tobacco Industries Limited for running operation without environmental clearance certificate.