Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named among the top three inspirational women leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership during Covid-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth, Bangladesh High Commission in London said in a statement today.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday announced that they will set up playgrounds in every ward.

The online application process for admission to the first-year honours programmes of National University for the 2020-2021 academic sessions will begin from June 8 and will continue till June 22.

The third Dash-8 aircraft purchased from Canada reached Dhaka this afternoon.

India today expressed happiness about Bangladesh’s graduation from the status of Least Developed Countries (LDC) and promised to continue support to the country’s development efforts.

Seven citizens who had earlier been detained under the Digital Security Act and ICT Act today demanded a judicial probe into the alleged torture of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and the trial of responsible law enforcement members.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today visited his constituency Akhaura where journalists asked him whether any changes or reform will be made to the controversial Digital Security Act, to which he replied “you will see in a few days, whatever there is.”

The authorities of Chattogram Medical College (CMC) have imposed a ban on processions and rallies on the campus as the students locked in clashes twice within the span of a month.

The death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in prison was due to natural causes, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.

Mohammed Yunush, 20, lost his parents during the persecution by security forces in Myanmar against Rohingyas in August, 2017.

A Dhaka court today sentenced eight to life in prison, in a case filed for killing a man in 2008.

The first set of metro train left the Port of Kobe in Japan today and is expected to reach Dhaka late next month.

A police constable was sentenced to two years in prison in a dowry case in Pabna today.

A Dhaka tribunal today completed recording statements of witnesses in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case.

After walking out of Kashimpur Central Jail-2 in Gazipur, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was on the way to a hospital and said, "I am not in a condition to go home."

Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas early this morning.

Prime Minister’s Political Adviser HT Imam, who breathed his last in the early hours of today, will be laid to eternal rest with state honour at the Banani Graveyard in Dhaka after Asr prayers.

Villagers and environmental lawyers urged the authorities to stop rampant underground water withdrawal by industries in Patiya upazila’s Habilasdwip union in Chattogram.

Sixty-six writers of Bangladesh have issued a statement demanding justice for the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody and abolition of Digital Security Act (DSA).

A worker died after falling from the under-construction Payra Bridge in Lebukhali area of Patuakhali-Barishal highway this morning.