A fire broke out on a Sylhet-bound intercity train, Kalni Express, in Brahmanbaria this afternoon.

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.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced his new Cabinet, in a reshuffle that will see six of the fifteen ministries headed by new ministers.

A 103-year-old man has recovered from Covid-19 in Pakistan to become one of the oldest survivors of the disease in the world, beating the odds in a country with a weak healthcare system.

Workers of a garment factory in Tongi blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for an hour today demanding full salary of the current month and 12-day vacation for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Security is tight outside the US consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu as staff inside prepare to leave, a day after China ordered it to close in response to a US order for China to shut its consulate in Houston.

The two city corporations of Dhaka have designated 356 places for the slaughtering of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha, to be held on August 1.

A section of guardians of English medium students today demanded that the schools should not increase tuition and session fees for the next three academic years, taking the Covid-19 situation into account.

Brigadier General Md Shahidullah, the immediate-past director of the Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD), died with Covid-19 at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka this afternoon.

Md Mizanur Rahman, managing director of Regent Hospital’s Uttara branch, has been placed on a 10-day remand in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates to 76 labourers of Dhaka Metro Rail.

Newly appointed Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam today said the government alone is not responsible for the corruption in the country’s health sector.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) is to receive 10 locomotives from India to overcome its locomotive crisis.

Thirty-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.

A Dhaka court has placed Sharmin Jahan, proprietor of Aparajita International, on a three-day remand in a case filed over supplying fake N95 masks to BSMMU's Covid-19 isolation unit.

An alleged robber was killed in what law enforcers claimed to be a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram early today.

Four day-labourers have been killed and three others injured when a pickup-van ploughed through them in Bogura.

India registered 48,916 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, as the total number of patients mounted to 13,36,861, shows health ministry data.

The United States has announced it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after rescinding a hotly contested order to expel those already here and preparing for that because of the pandemic.

Bangladeshi Md Rayhan Kabir who appeared in the controversial Al Jazeera documentary will be deported and blacklisted to prevent him from returning to Malaysia, says Immigration director-general Khairul Dzaimee Daud.

Three alleged drug peddlers have been killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar and Kushtia.