Less than a month into a COVID-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country's high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant, officials and scientists say.

The Taliban have appointed a new finance minister, an intelligence chief, and an acting interior minister in Afghanistan, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Tuesday.

BNP today planned various programmes, including virtual discussions, to celebrate its 43rd founding anniversary on September 1.

A university student was prevented from committing suicide by police, after a phone call to 999, following the youth’s post on Facebook.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the BNP government had AL leader Ivy Rahman’s offspring locked in a room at Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for three-four hours, as then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia went there to see her (on August 24, 2004).

Ferry service between Paturia and Daulatdia ghats has been significantly affected over the past 11 days. Every day, hundreds of vehicles are stalled at Manikganj's Paturia ferry ghat. Passengers, drivers of the vehicles face ordeal on a regular basis.

Ten lakh doses of Pfizer vaccine, gifted by the US, will arrive in Dhaka on August 30.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has selected a firm to audit Banglalink, the third-largest mobile phone operator by subscriber base in the country.

A man died when a loaded truck hit a running Khulna mail train while attempting to cross the rail tracks through an open crossing at Kazirhat point, near the Chilahati rail station of Nilphamari’s Domar upazila.

Government is set to build a bridge worth TK 3,264 crore on Brammaputra river in Mymensingh.

A Dhaka court today concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others for misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.

IPDC Finance has introduced an emergency loan service to provide financial support for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

With thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners massed at Kabul's airport in the hope of fleeing Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, US President Joe Biden is expected to decide as soon as Tuesday on whether to extend an August 31 deadline to airlift Americans and their allies to safety.

Seventy-four Rohingyas, who managed to flee from camps in Cox’s Bazar, were detained in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram early today.

Thermocol could be the material of the future for construction of earthquake-resistant buildings, according to Indian scientists.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested two members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam from Khulna city yesterday.

The New Zealand cricket team arrived in Dhaka today at around 12:00pm to take part in a bilateral five-match T20I series against Bangladesh starting from September 1.

Bangladesh Coast Guard in Cox's Bazar rescued thirteen fishermen from a fishing boat, named ‘FB Ma Moni’, from the Bay of Bengal last night, roughly 10 nautical miles west of Cox's Bazar's Laboni Beach.

Justice Amir Hossain, a sitting judge of the High Court and the International Crimes Tribunal, passed away at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning. He was 64.

The first-ever bilateral series between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been postponed until next year over logistic and multiple issues, both boards decided on Tuesday.