Holidaymakers from the southern region have started returning to their workplaces in Dhaka after spending Eid-ul-Adha with their families.

Police arrested popular TikTok video maker Yasin Arafat Opu, better known as "Opu Bhai" on social media, along with an accomplice, on charges of assaulting, harassing and beating people in Uttara area of the capital.

A teenager has been raped allegedly by her cousin in Jhikargacha upazila of Jashore.

Khorshed Alam Sujon has been appointed the administrator of Chattogram City Corporation.

A teacher of Chattogram Medical College died of Covid-19 at CMCH last night.

A total of 6,106 poor and helpless people were provided with legal aid without any cost during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic through the national helpline number 16430.

A short bout of rain at 11:00am today brought some relief for residents of Dhaka as a mild heat wave has been sweeping over parts of the country.

Salma Qadir, CEO of Rights & Sight for Children (RSC) and Country Coordinator of Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) for Bangladesh, passed away on August 2 at 11:00pm at her Dhaka home after suffering from motor neuron disease for a short time. She was only 57.

Producer Md Barkatullah, one of the pillars of BTV during its golden era, has passed away at 11:30am today at Green Life Medical College and Hospital.

Karnaphuli Tunnel Project has achieved a "breakthrough" with the completion of the left line despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Thirty people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said during a briefing today.

A virtual court in Dhaka today allowed detectives to deposit Tk 4.23 lakh to Bangladesh Bank, seized from an employee of JKG Health Care -- accused in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Engr AM Shaukat Ali, Director of Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL), passed away on Thursday night at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 80 and had been suffering from multiple old age complications.

Three people were killed as a bus hit a pickup van on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka early today.

Piling on top of the pre-pandemic stock of jobless population, economists apprehend the newly unemployed resulting from firms severely scaling back on their activities due to the pandemic may lead to serious social pressure on the country’s economy.

Twenty-one people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh today hoped to remove the blood and waste of sacrificial animals in DSCC area within 24 hours.

Today, August 1, is the 49th anniversary of the Concert for Bangladesh. The concert was organised by former The Beatles member George Harrison, along with Pandit Ravi Shankar, and was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Eid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice, is being celebrated in Bangladesh as the country grapples with the Covid-19 outbreak and floods inflict untold sufferings to hundreds of thousands of people.

An alleged criminal has been killed in a “shootout” with Rab members in Dhaka’s Pallabi area.