A cotton warehouse (godown) was gutted in a fire in Gonokpara area of Rajshahi city this afternoon.

Three people were killed in a sudden explosion at a house in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said BJP will make a “son of the soil” chief minister if voted to power in West Bengal assembly polls,

The government will buy another 50,000 tonnes of rice from India.

Severe gas crisis following the damage to Titas connection in Amin Bazar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on Monday night continued for the second consecutive day today.

Home Minster Asaduzzaman Khan has said they are not writing off a “subversive plan” behind the massive fire in Balukhali Rohingya camp.

Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today urged businesses and shop owners under Dhaka South City Corporation to bring down their shutters by 8pm every day from now on -- to curb the transmission of coronavirus.

Rohingyas have started rebuilding homes as Monday’s fire burned thousands of their shanties at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar that also left 11 people dead and hundreds injured.

Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 70 lakh to Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal (BD) Ltd and Tk 20 lakh to JAAGO Foundation Trust through Grassroots Human Security Projects.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has pledged US$ 1 million from its emergency fund for the relief efforts in the Rohingya camps following Monday's fire. It said further US$ 20 million is required to respond to the most urgent needs.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said MBBS admission test will be taken in compliance with the health guidelines.

The High Court today cleared the way for holding upcoming MBBS admission test on April 2.

The government has decided to observe a one-minute symbolic “blackout” on the night of March 25 throughout the country marking Genocide Day.

A mobile court has fined a dealer Tk 50,000 for black marketing coarse flour meant for open market sale (OMS) in Thakurgaon.

A man was shot dead in broad daylight in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area this morning.

Police arrested a 70-year-old man for raping a child in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

A Dhaka tribunal today took cognisance of charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed over circulating “indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information” about some ministers, lawmakers and top Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has removed one of its three visible bunkers set up unlawfully on no man’s land in Sylhet’s Gojukata border, under Beanibazar upazila, after a flag meeting with Border Guard Bangladesh held yesterday afternoon.

The world history recorded the dark night of March 25, 1971 as a rare case when the Pakistani military launched a sudden brutal assault on unarmed, sleeping Bengali civilians. A Pakistani military officer, in a vivid manner, has described the scene.

Border Guard Bangladesh jawans took up position on the Gojukata border in Sylhet’s Beanibazar yesterday morning shortly after India’s Border Security Force set up bunkers in the no-man’s land between the countries.