Pakistan President Yahya Khan said that he would like British mediation between India and Pakistan. “But,” Yahya continued, “I do not want it if she [Britian] remains much less than neutral.”

Police arrested Bashirur Rahman Khan Chowdhury, an accused in four cases and president of Natore district unit of Jubo League, hours after The Daily Star ran a report “Warranted accused seen with Natore MP Shimul in public” this morning.

Dhamrai Municipality Mayor Golam Kabir Mollah was photographed, posing with a syringe containing Covid-19 vaccine next to a jab recipient, as the nationwide mass inoculation drive kicked off today. The photo went viral on social media.

Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended 10 Bangladeshis while attempting to enter India illegally today, an official of the paramilitary force said.

Human rights activist Sultana Kamal today said, at a webinar, that indigenous people are not only losing their homesteads, gardens, trees, forestlands, or lakes, their cremation grounds are also being grabbed by the state or the people patronised by the state.

Bangladesh has gifted emergency Covid medicines to Indonesia, which has become Asia's new coronavirus epicenter reporting more than 3.57 million cases and more than 102,000 deaths as of yesterday.

State-owned Usmania Glass Sheet Factory Limited (UGSFL) resumed production today after a year with the experimental production of one lakh square feet of glass.

Central oxygen supply was inaugurated today at Pabna General Hospital for Covid patients.

Digitalisation is enabling businesses reach diversified markets and helping the economy to move towards sustainability, analysts said at a webinar today.

At least 204 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals of the country in 24 hours till 8am today.

Calcutta High Court has ordered to send back a Bangladeshi woman by air on her request as she is languishing in a correctional facility on completion of her detention period.

Additional Deputy Commissioner (DB Gulshan Division) Golam Saklain Shithil was withdrawn from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch following allegations of unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni.

Physical distancing, the essential health safety rule to prevent Covid-19 transmission, was largely ignored by thousands of people around the country on the first day of the government’s 6-day mass vaccination drive.

The newly inaugurated Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Covid-19 Field Hospital will provide services to the critically ill Covid-19 patients only.

Eight people died of Covid-19 and 15 with Covid-like symptoms in Barishal division in 24 hours (till 8 am today).

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam today said they will take action against Golam Saklain Shithil, an additional deputy commissioner (DB Gulshan Division), if allegations of his unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni is found true.

The government is going to purchase six crore doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Nine people -- eight Covid positive and one with symptoms -- died in Kushtia during 24 hours till 8am today.

As the Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps wreaking havoc, Bangladesh today started a mass vaccination drive across the country -- aimed at inoculating 32 lakh people in six days.

An alleged robber has been killed in a gunfight between a group of robbers and members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in Chattogram’s Bayezid-Foujderhat link road area of Sitakunda upazila early today, according to law enforcers.