Two people were killed after a vehicle hit a motorcycle near Dhaka airport early yesterday.

Police detained an Indian girl from Panchagarh’s Tentulia yesterday for entering Bangladesh illegally.

A sixth grader was raped allegedly by a youth in her house in Chattogram city Wednesday night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over the Ekushey Padak-2022 to 24 eminent persons on Sunday on the occasion of the Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.

The proposed regulation and policy for social media and streaming services will be alarming for journalism and the free flow of information, experts said yesterday.

The government has prepared the draft of the amendment to a provision of the Evidence Act that allows questioning the character of rape victims in court.

The Planning Commission has turned down a proposal for allocating Tk 2.70 crore for foreign trips of 30 officials for training on building food warehouses across the country under a project of the food ministry.

Even though each professional had to adapt to their new way of life, doctors had to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic in an unprecedented manner.

Officials of Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday protested the termination of a deputy assistant director of the commission in Patuakhali.

The world is becoming “better prepared” to deal with future variants of the coronavirus, the CEO and co-founder of German vaccine-maker BioNTech told AFP yesterday, as the company works on an Omicron-specific shot.

The queues and chaos in front of TCB trucks have only been growing recently due to reduced earnings of low- and middle-income groups and price hikes.

I had about 10 taxis on the Dhaka-Narayanganj route. There was no strike on that route on the morning of February 21. At that time, I was in Narayanganj. The transport strike actually began in the evening, shortly after the shooting.

An expert team yesterday started the process of shipping 500 tonnes of Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane, a banned toxic pesticide, to France for destruction.

A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has remained grounded in Malaysia since Tuesday due to a crack on its windshield.

In 1952, I was the editor of Sainik. I used to live in 19, Azimpur with Mr [Principal Abul] Kashem. I was present at the meeting of the All-party State Language Action Committee in Nawabpur [February 20, 1952]. The meeting decided not to violate section 144.

Two Bangladeshi brothers died in a road accident in Oman’s Sinaw city, around 200km from Muscat, early Tuesday.

Some 318 illegal brick kilns are still running and polluting the environment in Dhaka and four other surrounding districts -- Gazipur, Manikganj, Narayanganj and Munshiganj.

Police in Patuakhali are trying to rescue a female class 10 student and arrest a 22-year-old man accused of kidnapping her on February 2.

Air forces from the US and Bangladesh will participate in a joint exercise in Dhaka and Sylhet next week to bolster regional stability.

Rapid Action Battalion-7 said they arrested five kidnappers and rescued four abducted fishermen from a fishing trawler on Tuesday night.