A Dhaka court today placed three arrestees on 14-day remand each in connection with two cases filed over the blast at Pallabi Police Station on July 29.

Bangladesh is the fourth most-seriously hit in terms of the number of children affected by lead poisoning on a massive and previously unknown scale in the world, according to a new global report.

Forest officials rescued 60 pankauris – cormorants -- during a drive in Barlekha upazila of Moulvibazar last night.

Three people, including a police officer, have been killed in separate road accidents in Chattogram city and Lohagara upazila of the district.

"When will we return home, mother?’ eight-year-old Rabbi Islam, a second-grader, asks his mother. “I can’t read here, I want to go home so I can study,’ he says.

A father and his son were killed in a road accident in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila today.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has announced Tk 6,119.59 crore budget for 2020-21 fiscal year.

Forty-eight 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.

Three members of a family, including a Singapore returnee, has been killed and two others injured as a rented car lost control and hit a roadside railing on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gopalganj’s Kashani upazila.

Nearly one in three children around the world have high levels of lead in their bloodstream, according to a new study, as widespread lead pollution puts millions of young people at risk of irreversible mental and physical damage.

A journalist and his family members were injured in an attack carried out by some local criminals in Lalmonirhat Sadar last night.

The Anti-Corruption Corruption (ACC) has submitted a petition to a Dhaka court for showing Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former audit committee chairman of Farmers Bank Ltd, and his son Rashedul Haque Chisty, arrested in a case filed over the misappropriation of Tk 63 crore.

A suspected bidi smuggler has been killed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) allegedly opened fire on his gang in self-defence in Hazipur union of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has formed a three-member committee over yesterday’s blast inside Pallabi Police Station that left five -- including four policemen -- injured.

One person in the United States died about every minute from Covid-19 as the national death toll surpassed 150,000, the highest in the world.

Veteran politician Somen Mitra, who headed the West Bengal unit of Congress party, dies at a hospital in Kolkata of kidney and other related ailments.

The High Court has directed the government to take necessary steps to print or label clear and proper warning and necessary cautions on different hand sanitisers and disinfectant sprays that contain flammable ingredients.

Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the explosion at Pallabi Police Station in Dhaka today, which left five policemen injured, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

The chief executives of four of the world’s largest tech companies, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Facebook Inc (FB.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals.

The next Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) conference will be held in 2021 in Dhaka, commemorating the “Mujib Borsho” (Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary), said CVF President Ban Ki-moon.