A rights organisation today filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking its directive on the government to form a commission to look into the irregularities and corruption in the banking sector in the last two decades.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged Bangladesh’s envoys in Europe to explore new markets for Bangladeshi products, including RMG as well as the country’s human resources during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cox’s Bazar beaches have suddenly been covered with hundreds of tons of waste as if the garbage we’ve thrown into our oceans is coming back to haunt us. Starting from July 11 plastic, electronic waste, torn nylon nets have all washed up on the shores causing death to the entangled marine life. The waste spreads for kilometers at Cox’s Bazar. More than 40 sea turtles ensnared in the nylon nets have died while hundreds of rescued turtles have been released back into the ocean.

Wares Abdullah, one of our favourite designers, spared no effort to work on some dazzling kurtis for this Qurbani Eid, bringing forward a few of his selected best.

A Dhaka court places three people -- including the managing director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital (SMCH) -- on a five-day remand each in a case filed for conducting unauthorised antibody test to detect Covid-19 and test report forgery.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to file a case against Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed and three others for embezzling about Tk 1.5 crore from NRB Bank.

Ministry of Disaster Management and relief is going to purchase 60 special rescue boats to help flood victims in flood affected districts.

The Supreme Court has stayed till August 16 a High Court order that asked United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh as initial payment to the families of the four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27.

Forty-one 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.

Six people were injured as a bus plunged into a road-side canal in Janigaon area of Sunamganj Sadar upazila earlier today.

A rapist has been killed in a shootout between Rapid Action Battalion members and drug peddlers in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila, a Rab official said.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Indian Border Security Force should be cautious and use non-lethal weapons while guarding the border with Bangladesh.

India is often like a "punching bag" for its South Asian neighbours, says the country’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

A prisoner of Chattogram Central Jail has died while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

The University of Oxford's possible Covid-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty it will happen, the lead developer of the vaccine says.

The prosecution has submitted two petitions to a Dhaka court for showing Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed Karim arrested in two cases filed over misappropriation of Tk 3.68 crore of a businessman.

A girl has been stabbed to death by an unknown person in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area.

Amidst tense border standoff between India and China, warships of Indian and US Navies led by the latter’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz held a joint drill off the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday, said Indian Navy.

Floods may strike Lalmonirhat for the third time this monsoon as Teesta River has crossed the danger level due to onrush of water from upstream India and heavy rainfall, according to Water Development Board.

European Union leaders reached a "historic" deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-hit economies at a meeting after a fractious summit that lasted almost five days.