US President Joe Biden is doing fine after stumbling on the steps as he climbed aboard Air Force One on Friday, White House spokeswoman Karine

Australia’s east coast was smashed by heavy rains yesterday, sparking dangerous flash flooding that forced the evacuation of multiple regions as the fast moving waters unmoored houses, engulfed roads,

Visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed on exchanging experiences between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in socio-economic development of the two countries as he paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban this afternoon.

India is deliberating measures to increase the number of international students coming to the country for higher studies, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

An earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Saturday, hitting areas devastated by the 2011 disaster and generating a tsunami of 1 metre, public broadcaster NHK said.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Dhaka and Colombo today signed six MoUs to enhance cooperation between the two countries in different areas.

Scientists are exploring several possibilities that might explain at least 18 reports of extremely rare blood clots in the brain that occurred in individuals in the days and weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

Opponents of Myanmar’s coup planned more protests as international pressure on the military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy supporters increased, with Asian neighbours joining Western countries in condemning lethal force.

Nepal gave emergency authorisation to India’s Covid-19 vaccine COVAXIN, becoming only the third country to approve the shot, developed by Bharat Biotech and a state research institute.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would take AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country’s official gazette said, despite calls from campaigners who see the pact as key to combating rising domestic violence.

US and Chinese officials concluded what Washington called “tough and direct” talks in Alaska, which laid bare the depth of tensions between the world’s two largest economies at the outset of the Biden administration.

More than 1,000 people fleeing violence in Myanmar have crossed into neighbouring India's Mizoram state since late February, an Indian lawmaker told Reuters on Friday.

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin yesterday arrived in India for the first face-to-face meetings between New Delhi and the Biden administration, with shared alarm about China set to figure highly.

The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed bills providing a pathway to citizenship for immigrants nicknamed “Dreamers,” who are living illegally in the United States after entering as children, as well as for a large number of immigrant farmworkers.

The Afghan government and the Taliban yesterday agreed to try to accelerate peace talks, at a meeting in Moscow that followed an international conference there on the peace process, Afghanistan’s top peace official and a Taliban spokesman said.

The United Nations’ biodiversity summit, COP15, will take place in October in the Chinese city of Kunming after being delayed a year due to the pandemic, the UN said yesterday.

The International Criminal Court has given Israel and the Palestinians one month to ask the tribunal to postpone its war crimes investigation, provided they can prove they are carrying out their own probes.

Covid-19 has done little to alter the ranking of the world’s happiest countries, with Finland at the top for a fourth year running, an annual UN-sponsored report said yesterday.