Planning Minister MA Mannan has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and hospitalised today.

The youth, whose body was recovered from Hatirjheel area yesterday, was a private university student. He arrived in Dhaka from Chattogram for a job interview.

Police recovered the body of a young man from a sand trading point in Dhaka's Khilkhet area early today.

A 70-year-old man was killed after a bus hit him at Dhaka's Kuril Bishwa Road area early this morning.

A man was arrested on charges of raping two minors -- sisters -- in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj yesterday, police said.

Faisal Al Islam, managing director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital, got bail in a case filed over using unauthorised Covid-19 test kits and forging test reports.

A journalist was killed by some local people in Narayanganj on Sunday night as he used to inform law enforcers of their involvement in illegal gas connection, said police.

The High Court yesterday opined that the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) should not continue its move to relocate stray dogs from its area until further hearing of the writ petition filed to this effect.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Atiqul Islam and his wife Dr Shaila Shagufta Islam have been infected with Covid-19.

At least two people, including an accused in BCL leader Sudipto Biswas murder case, were injured in a scuffle in front of a Chattogram court room yesterday.

Dubai airport authorities have deported 104 Bangladeshi passengers -- mostly migrant workers -- on October 11 as Flydubai, a government-owned budget airline, carried them to the UAE without following the country’s immigration policy.

Italy will not allow Bangladeshi citizens to enter the European country till December 31, due to “previous behaviour” and fear of a possible second wave of Covid-19, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Speakers at a webinar yesterday discussed the role of media in promoting gender-responsive disaster management and resilience building, as women and girls remain invisible in disaster reporting of both electronic and print media.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion has fined Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Ltd Tk 1 crore for using harmful methanol in its Savlon hand sanitiser.

Two out of four “missing” leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad were remanded yesterday in a rape case filed by a Dhaka University student.

It took only 54mm rain to turn many parts of the capital into swamps yesterday, disrupting normal life and creating a traffic chaos.

Afsar Mirza likes to cycle, a lot. He is known to take his two-wheeler out for a ride to Crescent Lake Road, adjecent to the Chandrima Uddyan, and back to his home at Asad Avenue, Mohammadpur. He says it’s the burst of sunlight and the light breeze caressing his skin while cycling past familiar roads that draws him to cycle.

Around 45 percent of the people in Dhaka city have already been exposed to the coronavirus infection, said a study by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Police arrested a man and his elder sister on charge of raping a 20-year-old girl in Ashulia of Savar.

The High Court today asked the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) not to continue relocation of stray dogs from its area until further hearing of the writ petition filed to this effect.