Four people were killed and five injured as a truck collided head-on with a human hauler on the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Burichong upazila of Cumilla today.

A total of 67,229 personsaccused in criminal cases, including 755 children, have secured bail in 50 working days between May 12 and July 23.

Newly-appointed Chief of Naval Staff Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal has been adorned with the rank badge of vice-admiral this morning at a function in presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban.

A five-member team of the archaeology department has visited the land of long-lost heritage located in Kalimabad area of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila -- once known as Chandrapur -- which now lies beneath the ground.

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed has been placed on a 28-day remand in four fraud cases -- seven days for each case -- filed against him with Uttara Paschim and Uttara Purba police stations.

Seattle police declared a riot Saturday following large demonstrations in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and deployed flash bangs and pepper spray to try to clear an area near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks.

The government will allow the export of rawhide and wet blue if it is necessary so that the growers and seasonal traders can get proper prices.

Rail communication from Dhaka to the North and South-Western regions resumed this morning, 10 hours after being suspended.

US Attorney General William Barr has reopened a sprawling case against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s fugitive killer Rashed Chowdhury, signaling that he could face deportation and death sentence, US magazine The Politico reports.

Fleetwood Mac guitarist and co-founder of the influential rock group Peter Green has died at age 73, Green's lawyers said on Saturday.

Vietnam is back on high alert for the coronavirus after medical officials in the central city of Danang detected the country’s first locally transmitted case for three months.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said that he tested negative for the novel coronavirus after weeks quarantined in his residence due to an infection.

Defying the ban on student politics at Bangladesh Engineering and Technology University (Buet), Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has announced convening a five-member committee of the university unit.

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man who is suspected to have raped a woman in Bagharpara Upazila of Jashore.

The Chinese Super League held a minute's silence today before the season kicked off five months late because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladeshi youth Rayhan Kabir has been placed on a 14-day remand, a day after the Malaysian Immigration Department arrested him, saying he would be deported to Bangladesh and blacklisted for criticising Putrajaya’s handling of migrants during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A doctor of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) had been raping a female apprentice-lawyer for 17 months under threats of releasing her private photographs and videos, police said quoting the victim.

Walt Disney Co has postponed the debut of its movie “Mulan” indefinitely, dealing a new blow to theater operators that were counting on the live-action epic to help attract audiences during a pandemic.

A former leader of Faridpur town Awami League unit and his brother today confessed to a magistrate of having laundered over Tk 2,000 crore abroad on different dates, an official of the court said.

Forty-four eminent citizens of the country today demanded withdrawal of additional Value Added Tax (VAT) on internet use to avoid negative impact on online education during the coronavirus crisis.