More than 700 firefighters have battled a wildfire sweeping across a part of central Portugal, with strong winds complicating efforts to tackle the blaze.

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina asks her party leaders and workers to remain prepared to tackle any situation if the ongoing flood continues.

A police official is killed after his motorcycle collided head-on with a passenger bus in Bikramhati area on Dhaka-Tangail highway under Tangail Sadar Upazila.

North South University (NSU) has been ranked in the QS World University Rankings 2020 by subject for the very first time, consequently becoming the only private university in Bangladesh to have achieved this milestone.

Md Shafiqul Islam, an executive officer of JKG Health Care today confessed to a magistrate that he was involved in issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

The authorities of Dhaka University have suspended its employee Sharmin Jahan, the owner of Aparajita International, for tarnishing the image of the university by supplying fake N95 masks to BSMMU's Covid-19 isolation unit.

Oaishe Khan, daughter of former shipping minister and Awami League presidium member Shajahan Khan, has been barred from going to London at Dhaka airport after she was found Covid-19 positive upon cross-checking her certificate.

Indiscriminate hill cutting is going unabated in Bandarban district, raising risk of landslides in the monsoon.

Thirty winners of the Bangladesh's Recovery Idea and Plan: Youth Perspective competition have been announced on July 25 through a virtual ceremony.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrest three Bangladeshis on charges of collaborating with a Nigerian ring to embezzle money from people in the name of paying duty with false information about the arrival of gifts from abroad.

Residents of five villages under Bogura Sadar upazila have organised a human chain protesting illegal sand lifting from Karatoa River which is causing damage to their cropland.

The Criminal Investigation Department’s Cyber Police Monitoring team arrested one person on July 23 for selling people fake ‘VIP SIM cards’ from unverified online pages.

A Dhaka court rejects the bail petition of Md Ridoy, an employee of Moyur-2 launch, and sends him to jail in connection with a case filed over hitting another launch--Morning Bird--and killing at least 34 people on June 29.

A rights organisation today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to refund the money and fees collected from patients who were cheated by Regent Hospital in regards to Covid-19 test and treatment.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border.

A senior jail superintendent of the Department of Prisons who earlier tested positive for Covid-19, died at a hospital in Dhaka today.

The Fisheries and Livestock Ministry today formed eight monitoring teams to observe the activities of veterinary medical teams and other health-related issues at all cattle markets of two Dhaka city corporations before Eid-ul-Azha.

Detectives have submitted a petition before a Dhaka court to show photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol arrested in a case filed with Kamrangirchar Police Station under the Digital Security Act.

Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades and helped himself and some fans strike it rich with the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died at 88.

Fifty-four 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.