Cashing in on heavy flow of vehicles on Paturia-Daulatdia ferry route, some dishonest BIWTC employees are allegedly overcharging goods-laden vehicles to board ferries for crossing the Padma through the route.

Bangladesh has sought the UN Security Council’s action to ensure that Myanmar refrains from targeting Rohingyas under the pretext of security operations, because that may lead to further refugee influx into Bangladesh.

19 members of the constituent assembly belonging to the ruling Awami League have been expelled from the party on charges of corruption,

England is on track for about 50,000 coronavirus cases a day by mid-October and a surging death toll unless the public gets serious about preventive action, top UK advisers warned yesterday.

Forty more people have died from Covid-19 yesterday, while 1,705 new patients were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Comparing with the previous epidemiological week, the number of new Covid-19 cases have drastically decreased.

The trial of the case -- filed against Md Majnu for the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area -- began at a Dhaka tribunal yesterday with the deposition of the complainant.

Five policemen of Shayestaganj Police Station, including the officer-in-charge, were closed yesterday for their alleged involved in taking bribe and releasing a man during his detention in Habiganj.

India’s coronavirus case tally surged to 5.4 million as it added 92,605 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the federal health ministry showed yesterday.

Asian Paper Mill, which last year was found to be a major factory responsible for polluting the Halda River, possibly the lone natural breeding ground of carp fish in South Asia, is accelerating its efforts to resume operations.

India has given green signal to the commercial launch of a new coronavirus-detection technology named after master director Satyajit Ray’s iconic detective Feluda also known as Prodosh Mitter.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is waiting for the response from the Saudi Arabia authorities to operate flights in the Gulf country as international flight operations between the two countries are expected to resume soon.

The annual report of the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) on the human rights situation in Bangladesh in 2019 shows that the overall condition of human rights is as dismal as it was in 2018.

A high-level conference held at the Gono Bhaban today reviews the food situation in the country. Presided over by Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,

A projectile fired by Yemen’s Huthi rebels hit a village in Saudi Arabia’s southern Jizan province, wounding five civilians, state media reported.

Rabiul Islam finally gave a confessional statement before a court yesterday, admitting that he was involved with the brutal hammer attack on Wahida Khanam, upazila nirbahi officer of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat Upazila, on September 3rd.

A fierce political battle shaped up over the future of the US Supreme Court yesterday, with President Donald Trump saying he would quickly name a successor to liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, a move that would tip the court further to the right.

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film “The Pianist,” go under the hammer in Warsaw next week.

The Draft Constitution for the country has been finalised and sent for printing, which would be complete before the current month is out.

Taiwan’s air force scrambled jets for a second consecutive day yesterday as multiple Chinese aircraft approached the island and crossed the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, with the island’s government urging Beijing to “pull back from the edge.”