The former Member of National Assembly (MNA) and Member of Parliament (MP) ANM Nazrul Islam died of old age complications at his Humayun Road residence in Dhaka this morning. He was 80.

This January, Sylhet city was praised for having a street with no cobweb of overhead cables as the first phase of underground power line project of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was progressing.

Abdul Mannan, director of Agrani Bank Ltd’s board of directors and a former district and sessions judge, died at Square Hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 70, says a press release.

A total of 269 people, mostly Bangladeshi expatriates, left Dhaka for Italy aboard a special flight of Biman yesterday.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the health condition of Imran Hossain, a student of Kazi Nazrul Islam Degree College in Jashorem who was reportedly mercilessly tortured by police on June 3 without any specific allegation.

The “Air Transport (Montreal Convention 1999) Bill 2020” was placed in parliament yesterday, paving the way for the family of an air passenger to get some US $160,000 as compensation in case of death in airplane accident.

Indian daily Anandabazar Patrika yesterday sought unconditional apology for using a derogatory word in a recent news that described how China is attracting Bangladesh after the Indo-China clashes in Ladakh.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday solved a seven-month-old rape case that took place in Rajshahi’s Durgapur upazila, revealing involvement of a village leader and a lawyer in arbitrating the non-compoundable offence of the rape of an autistic girl.

The arrest of the 14-year-old boy in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh under Digital Security Act has left his family distraught.

Rapid Action Battalion detains a youth for his alleged link in spreading rumours on social media “to create an unstable situation in the country” from Fatullah area of Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

The Supreme Court has stayed till June 30 a High Court order that granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a money laundering case.

Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been shown arrested in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

Three people were killed and two were burnt in a fire caused by a gas cylinder explosion in Hatia upazila of Noakhali last night.

Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), has tested positive for Covid-19.

A 12-year-old Bangladeshi boy, a suspected victim of human trafficking, has been found by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in a railway wagon at Petrapole in West Bengal, and handed over to Indian Railway police.

Organisers announce the cancellation of the 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) which was expected to take place in January 2021.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur's Tongi upazila.

Badiuzzaman Tunu Bir Protik, a prominent freedom fighter from Rajshahi, passed away early yesterday. He was 91.

Brac University is developing an online learning platform titled ‘buX’, based on a world-class platform developed by MIT and Harvard.

A mobile court of Barishal District Administration in association with the Drug Administration seized a huge quantity of fake hand sanitisers and penalised nine persons in the city’s Hemayetuddin and Chawkbazar areas yesterday.