A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directive on the government to stop setting up cattle markets in

A Dhaka court yesterday placed JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on a two-day fresh remand, in connection with a case filed over the issuing fake Covid-19 reports.

Abdul Hye, younger brother of President Abdul Hamid, died of Covid-19 at Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka early yesterday. He was 67.

The small wooden table sat on one corner of the drawing room. On it was an imposing box the size of a small suitcase.

Though the district administration was planning to set up temporary cattle markets ahead of Eid in Sylhet, locals apparently are showing better judgement by purchasing sacrificial animals directly from farms after selecting cattle online to avoid crowds amid the pandemic.

Abdullah M Hasan, news editor of The Financial Express, died from coronavirus at a private hospital in Dhaka this evening.

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) was stabbed to death allegedly by an accused during arrest in Brahmanbaria Sadar this afternoon.

Three people died of Covid-19 like symptoms at Satkhira Medical College Hospital today.

A Facebook post with the picture of a Garo woman made by a maid-providing agency has caused outrage among social media users, including people from the ethnic minority community.

Three people were shot dead and another was beaten to death in a clash over the management of a local madrasa committee in Atra-Gilatola Eastern Gate area of Khulna city last night.

Flooding worsened in Tangail after the Jamuna river increased 11cm in the last 24 hours, flowing 99cm above the danger level, sources at the Water Development Board (WDB) said.

A man was killed in an alleged “shootout” with police in the city’s Bosila area earlier today.

Police have arrested four members of a robbery gang including its ringleader from different places in the capital.

A sub-inspector (SI) of Double Mooring Police Station is closed in his post earlier today after an 18-year-old teenage boy committed suicide after police allegedly detained his mother and sister over his role in beating-up another youth.

Parents of students studying at English-medium school yesterday formed a human chain demanding 50 percent tuition waiver from all the schools, as the authorities are only conducting online classes.

Some 1,776 people have died after showing Covid-19 symptoms from March 22 to July 11 in the country, said a report of Dhaka University’s Centre for Genocide Studies.

Ganasamhati Andolon yesterday demanded removal of health minister Zahid Maleque and director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad due to “failure to tackle corruption in health sector.”

Trying to embrace the “new normal” during the pandemic, the entertainment industry faces a peculiar challenge. Amidst the drawbacks, artistes in the entertainment industry are trying to innovate and come up with solutions to overcome challenges, speakers said at Youth Skills Summit 2020.

The government will introduce e-ticketing system at the city’s Sadarghat Launch Terminal, to avoid harassment of waterways passengers and recurrence of accidents.

Livelihoods of a vast majority of daily-earning class people were hampered during the shutdown enforced for containing coronavirus infections, said a Right to Food Bangladesh survey report yesterday.