Three people, including two Chinese nationals, were killed and one was injured when a pickup truck fell into a ditch at Kawabunia area in Barguna's Amtali upazila on the Patuakhali-Kuakata highway early today.

The government has signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding today for bottling, labelling and dispensing Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh has urged all stakeholders in Afghanistan to maintain peace and calm, ensuring safety and security of all including foreign nationals.

Four Palestinians were killed on Monday in clashes with Israeli security forces at Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where violence has escalated over a wildcat Jewish settlement.

Flash floods that swept through towns in Turkish Black Sea provinces have killed 70 people and emergency workers continue to search for 47 missing people, authorities said on Monday.

Bangladesh has recently given a proposal to India regarding launching air bubble flights with the country.

At least five people were killed in Kabul airport as hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving the Afghan capital, witnesses told Reuters.

The Taliban are in control of Afghanistan and British and NATO forces will not be returning to fight the insurgents, Britain's defence minister said on Monday.

Several flight chartering companies have proposedBiman Bangladesh Airlines to evacuate thousands, including Afghan citizens who worked for the American troops, from the country in turmoil.

The High Court today directed the government to put a stop to all kinds of "destructive" online games and apps like PUBG and Free Fire for the next three months to "save children and adolescents from moral and social degradation".

A father and son died after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a septic tank in Singhajhuli village in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore today.

The High Court today wanted to see the inquest and post mortem reports of Minu Akhter, who had been serving jail sentence instead of a convict, Kulsuma Akhter, in a murder case.

The United States spent more than $8 billion over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan's opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to airstrikes and raids on suspected labs.

A fire broke out at a textile warehouse in Bhogra Bhasan Road area of Gazipur city early today.

Water level of Teesta river has crossed the danger level in Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat due to heavy downpour and water flowing in from India.

Former US president Donald Trump called for his successor Joe Biden to resign on Sunday (Aug 15) over the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taleban militants, as US troops withdrew from the country after nearly 20 years on the ground.

Commercial flights from Kabul were cancelled Monday after chaotic scenes at the airport with thousands looking for a way out after the Taliban re-took power in Afghanistan.

Six people died when a CNG-run three-wheeler was hit by a covered-van in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj this morning.

The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching storm.

The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.