Two more persons, who suffered severe burns in the blast at a Narayanganj mosque, died at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka. With them, 31 people have so far died from the tragic incident while the condition of the others admitted at the hospital remains critical.

A Bangladeshi migrant worker was rescued in a frantic effort by firefighters in Singapore after he got stuck on a tower crane high off the ground on Monday.

Although the government has permitted reopening of hotels, resorts and amusement parks since August, tour and hotel operators around Dhaka are still struggling to run their businesses due to low number of holidaymakers.

The government has extended the deadline of enrolling students to class XI and fixed the highest ceiling of the admission fees.

BNP yesterday demanded withdrawal of the restriction on Khaleda Zia, its ailing chairperson, from going abroad for treatment.

The High Court yesterday questioned the inaction and apathy of the authorities concerned to remove obscene and immoral video contents from the OTT (over-the-top) web-based platforms across the country.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday told the parliament that the number of Bangladeshi migrant workers returning from abroad due to the global coronavirus pandemic is “not alarming”.

The public administration ministry recently asked all secretaries to instruct their subordinates to make sure that without prior approval of superiors concerned, no public servant writes on or talks to the media.

A mobile court yesterday disconnected around 1,000 illegal gas connections to households at Johorchanda area of Ashulia in Savar.

A total of six leakages have been found in the pipeline of Titas Gas beneath Baitul Salah Jame Mosque located in Narayanganj Sadar upazila where an explosion occurred on Friday that has so far claimed 28 lives.

Star Cineplex may continue its operation at the Bashundhara City shopping mall after possibility of renewal of its agreement with the mall authorities has reportedly emerged.

The authorities of Dhaka University have terminated a professor from his job on charges of distorting the country’s history and defaming Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

When Imtiaz Hossain Rocky -- younger brother of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny who was tortured to death in police custody in 2014 -- heard the verdict, he was stunned into silence. As people prodded him, he whispered, barely audibly, “I’m satisfied, sir” over and over again.

Dhaka Customs House officials today seized over 15 kilogrammes of amphetamine powder from a flight of Biman at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

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

A tribunal in Dhaka has set September 15 to decide whether it will frame charges against all the 25 accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case filed last year.

The High Court today directed Titas Gas Ltd to give Tk 5 lakh as initial compensation in seven days to each family of the victims, who died and suffered injuries in the Narayanganj mosque blast.

This is first verdict under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013.

Expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman today claimed innocence after a Dhaka tribunal read out charges from statements of prosecution witnesses to them in an arms case.

A tribunal in Dhaka today deferred to September 20 the hearing of a case filed against Md Majnu over rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola area.