Criticising the Health Ministry’s move to ‘stop’ drives at hospitals by law enforcers, BNP today said it has exposed that the government wants to protect those involved in corruption in the health sector.

At least five youths go missing as a boat of a picnic party capsized near China Ghat point in Jamuna river in Sirajganj Sadar upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offers deepest condolences over the loss of innocent lives due to the deadly explosion that took place in Beirut on Tuesday night.

A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian national to death in a ruling that could further inflame tensions between China and Canada.

India has asked other nations, including neighbours, to refrain from commenting on the country’s internal matters.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned Abul Kalam Azad, former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), to question him over allegations of his involvement in corruption.

Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and Inspector Liaqat Ali, in-charge of Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre, and Sub-Inspector Nandadulal Raxit were each placed on seven-day remand today in connection with the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

A team of Bangladesh Army reached Chowhatta Point area in Sylhet city to defuse the bomb-like object this noon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to work for making the country’s investment environment more attractive, overcoming the problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Local administration has decided to reopen the sea beaches, hotel-motels and tourist spots in Cox’s Bazar municipality on a limited scale from August 17, five months into the closure due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

Police have taken Pradeep Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, into custody this afternoon, hours after an arrest warrant was issued against him in a case filed over killing of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

39 die, 2,977 infected, 2,074 recover in 24 hours.

Abdul Barik, father of Journalist Golam Mortoza, has passed away. He was 95.

A forester who was critically injured in an attack by land grabbers, dies in Chattogram.

Ramesh Chandra Sen, a presidium member of ruling Awami League and lawmaker of Thakurgaon-1 constituency, has tested positive for coronavirus.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved additional $3 million in grant assistance for procuring urgently needed medical supplies for emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has decided to send emergency food, medical supplies and a medical team to Lebanon that has experienced massive destruction caused by the twin explosions at Beirut Port on Tuesday evening, Foreign Ministry said in a statement today.

Manoj Sinha, a senior leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and a former federal minister, was today appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir replacing a seasoned bureaucrat, in a significant change for the region, which lost its special constitutional status a year ago.

Lebanese rescue teams pull out bodies and hunt for missing people from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135.

Md Mizanur Rahman, managing director of Regent Hospital's Uttara branch, has confessed to a magistrate that he along with others issued fake Covid-19 certificates for 76 workers of Dhaka Metro Rail, as per the direction of Regent Group Chairman Shahed Karim.