The arrest of the 14-year-old boy in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh under Digital Security Act has left his family distraught.

Bicycle-sharing service Jobike is set to launch in select areas of the capital, with the aim to ease the sufferings of commuters amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

As many government departments, including law enforcement agencies, are focused on fighting the coronavirus outbreak, victims of domestic violence are not getting enough support, speakers at a webinar said yesterday.

The former Member of National Assembly (MNA) and Member of Parliament (MP) ANM Nazrul Islam died of old age complications at his Humayun Road residence in Dhaka this morning. He was 80.

This January, Sylhet city was praised for having a street with no cobweb of overhead cables as the first phase of underground power line project of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was progressing.

Abdul Mannan, director of Agrani Bank Ltd’s board of directors and a former district and sessions judge, died at Square Hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 70, says a press release.

A total of 269 people, mostly Bangladeshi expatriates, left Dhaka for Italy aboard a special flight of Biman yesterday.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the health condition of Imran Hossain, a student of Kazi Nazrul Islam Degree College in Jashorem who was reportedly mercilessly tortured by police on June 3 without any specific allegation.

The “Air Transport (Montreal Convention 1999) Bill 2020” was placed in parliament yesterday, paving the way for the family of an air passenger to get some US $160,000 as compensation in case of death in airplane accident.

Rapid Action Battalion detains a youth for his alleged link in spreading rumours on social media “to create an unstable situation in the country” from Fatullah area of Narayanganj Sadar upazila.

The Supreme Court has stayed till June 30 a High Court order that granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a money laundering case.

Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been shown arrested in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

Three people were killed and two were burnt in a fire caused by a gas cylinder explosion in Hatia upazila of Noakhali last night.

Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), has tested positive for Covid-19.

A 12-year-old Bangladeshi boy, a suspected victim of human trafficking, has been found by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in a railway wagon at Petrapole in West Bengal, and handed over to Indian Railway police.

Organisers announce the cancellation of the 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) which was expected to take place in January 2021.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur's Tongi upazila.

Sheikh Russel Gastro Liver Institute and Hospital in Dhaka has been designated for priority treatment of coronavirus-positive health workers.

As a major labour-exporting country, Bangladesh should raise its voice to realise unpaid dues of migrant workers, since many of them were repatriated arbitrarily in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, migration experts and advocacy groups said yesterday.

Pran-RFL Group donated a consignment of protective equipment among police personnel and health workers in Chattogram on Sunday, said a press release.