According to a study conducted by Nirapad Sarak Chai, a road safety movement led by actor and activist Ilias Kanchan, based on reports published by different media outlets, as many as 4,092 road accidents took place across Bangladesh in 2020, taking 4,969 lives and injuring 5,058 more people.

Asking the students staging protests on the streets to return to their educational institutions, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said they should not vandalise vehicles.

The entrepreneurial spirit unleashed by the Liberation War has propelled Bangladesh’s remarkable economic growth and also led to an inequitable society, experts said at a development conference yesterday.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has ordered lower courts and tribunals across the country to dispose of cases filed in connection with harming communal harmony within 90 working days.

With the historic Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord stepping into its 24th year today, some legal complexities involving the issues of CHT Regional Council are still now awaiting the final settlements.

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi declared today that it did not worry India at all as to who called her aggressor when she had not committed any aggression.

The teachers of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology have called for abstention from academic activities as one of their colleagues died hours after his confinement by the Chhatra League activists on Tuesday.

The USA-based subscription streaming service and production company Netflix has got the Value-Added Tax (VAT) identification number from the National Board of Revenue (NBR).

A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said.

Forest officials today recovered a female elephant's body from Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.

The United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow did not meet all expectations; it, however, met many long-standing demands of Bangladesh, said Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Shahab Uddin today.

Bangladesh Airlines' Pilot Association (Bapa) today demanded the reinstatement of Biman’s senior pilot, Captain Mahbubur Rahman, who was terminated from Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday.

At least 121 dengue patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy today said that Awami League has already delivered on its promise to build Digital Bangladesh by the year 2021.

An Indian man has built a one-third sized replica of the historic Taj Mahal for his wife, but unlike the original, it’s their residence, not a mausoleum.

Two persons have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

India today suspended resumption of regular international flights from December 15, in view of the emergence of Omicron variant of Covid-19.

At least three students were killed and six other people, including a teacher, were wounded on Tuesday in a shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, and a student was quickly taken into custody, law enforcement authorities said.

On Friday, November 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's biggest private testing labs, sequenced the genes on eight coronavirus samples - and got the shock of her life.

Josephine Baker, the famed French American singer and dancer, was inducted on Tuesday into the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris - one of France's highest honours - at a ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron.