A forty-year-old man in Ghior upazila of Manikganj set a college student on fire last night.

From trucks stuffed with carpets, bedding, clothes and even goats, around 200 Afghan refugees look beyond the horizon toward Spin Boldak in their country's south, waiting to return home from Pakistan.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to take all necessary steps to remove and stop further spread of any and all media reports, videos and pictures assassinating individuals' character from all media platforms.

Nine out of 21 accused, arrested over the recent conflict between Barishal City Corporation (BCC) authorities and the local administration, were granted bail today.

Covid-19 mass vaccination drive for the second dose will begin on September 7, Prof Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general (Health) of DGHS, announced today.

Starting from former US President Barack Obama’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan, Trump’s hurried plans to withdraw before Christmas of 2020, to Biden calling them all home by August 31 – here’s how the decision unfolded through three different US administrations.

A death row convict in a murder case died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early today.

A man, who was injured in an explosion while making a bomb at his house in Kushtia on August 19, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) last night.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday stuck by his plan to remove the nearly 6,000 US troops from Afghanistan by the end of August, contingent on whether the Taliban cooperates to allow the evacuation of more Americans and their Afghan allies. 

Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan are interested in serving as mediators in resolving the crisis in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

At least three people died when a truck hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pachlia Bazar of Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila on Bangabandhu Bridge-Hatikumrul highway early today.

The High Court today cautioned former Superintendent of Kushtia police SM Tanvir Arafat for misbehaving with a senior judicial magistrate during Bheramara municipality elections on January 16.

The number of people living with high blood pressure more than doubled since 1990, according to a major study published on Wednesday that found half of all sufferers -- about 720 million people -- went untreated in 2019.

US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he aims to have all US forces out of Afghanistan by August 31, ending a massive two-week airlift from the country at the risk of leaving potential evacuees behind.

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Rear Admiral Ashraful Hoq Chowdhury has assumed responsibility as the new DG of Bangladesh Coast Guard.

The study calculated that countries which fail to vaccinate 60 percent of their populations by mid-2022 will suffer the losses, equivalent to two trillion euros, over the 2022-2025 period.

Five members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team arrived in Mexico on Tuesday evening, fleeing an uncertain future at home after the recent collapse of the US-backed government and takeover by the Taliban militant group.

The World Bank has suspended aid to Afghanistan, saying it is "deeply concerned" by the situation there, especially regarding women's rights, after the Taliban seized power, a bank spokesperson told AFP.

Dhaka University is going to reopen its dormitories for the resident students of master’s and honours final year in the first week of October, as the government moves to reopen educational institutions in phases.