A ruthless Ashleigh Barty swept into her first Australian Open final on Thursday with the top seed outgunning a resurgent Madison Keys in a clinical, straight-sets demolition.

The government hopes the US will lift sanctions on Rab if it is provided with accurate information, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told parliament yesterday.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday dismissed the 2021 Corruption Perception Index, in which Bangladesh ranked 147 out of 180, saying the report is based on wrong data.

After scrutiny, the parliamentary standing committee on the law ministry submitted its report on the “Appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners Bill-2022” in parliament yesterday.

Amid high infection rate of Covid-19, the ongoing 16th session of parliament is going to be shortened.

A five-member probe committee has been formed to find out the reason behind the deaths of nine zebras at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur’s Sreepur.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFUI) today submitted to the High Court a report containing names of 69 Bangladeshi individuals and entities disclosed in Panama Papers and Paradise Papers as money launderers.

Unvaccinated world number one Novak Djokovic has signed up to play at next month's ATP Dubai tennis tournament, reports said on Wednesday, after his deportation from Australia prevented a tilt at a record 21st Grand Slam title.

Two youths have been arrested for raping a seventh-grade student overnight in a locked room in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, police said.

The last girder segment of the 20.1 km Mass Rapid Transit Line 6 viaduct will be installed around 11 am tomorrow.

Australian cricketers are on edge barely a month before their first tour of Pakistan in 24 years, amid an uptick in terror attacks in the Asian nation, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today said that the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami had appointed eight lobbyist firms so that the US stops providing aid and development assistance to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh scored 26 out of 100 in the latest edition of the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, which is more or less the same as in the past decade -- a development that raises questions about the 12-year-old government’s actions in snuffing out the social ill.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the Awami League government had appointed a PR (public relations) firm, not lobbyist, to promote good governance and a positive image of Bangladesh.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has suggested forming of a “community contract” in Bangladesh to deal with inappropriate contents on social media, especially Facebook.

President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday asked the police force to launch a cleansing campaign to get rid of its corrupt members and improve its service to the society.

Today is the 13th death anniversary of Md Shahidul Islam Pannu, director of Sara Advertising Ltd, said a press release.  His family members have requested all to pray for the salvation of the departed soul.

At least 19 people have died after a karaoke bar in Indonesia's West Papua was set ablaze following a brawl between rival gangs of youths in the area, police in the provincial capital of Sorong said on Tuesday.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today submitted the final report before a court in Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case filed by the victim’s father in 2016.

Bangladesh football team skipper Jamal Bhuiyan mentioned that the newly-appointed head coach Javier Cabrera will mostly work on the team’s ball possession and goal-scoring abilities.