The UN climate panel sounded a dire warning today, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are "unequivocally" to blame.

Restrictions on public gatherings and recreation venues will remain in effect after August 10, said Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam today.

The High Court, in the full text of verdict over Kotalipara bomb plot, observed that militant activities need to be eradicated from the country for good, for the interest of people.

Another black fungus (Mucormycosis) patient has been identified in Chattogram and is being treated at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) since August 6.

More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of “ye azadi jhoota hai”, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country’s independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag at all its party offices.

Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened further cities.

More than 30 Chinese officials have been fired or received other punishments over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of the coronavirus in the country.

Seventeen people died while being treated at the Covid unit of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital in 24 hours till 8am today.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent two associates of businessperson turned politician Helena Jahangir to jail after rejecting their bail prayer in a fraud case filed with Dhaka's Pallabi Police Station.

Police rescued a 23-year-old woman and arrested three of her abductors from Panchagarh town yesterday afternoon.

The United States has announced an additional $11.4 million in urgent Covid-19 assistance for Bangladesh.

At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, three security sources said.

1945 - The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, this time on the city of Nagasaki; a wide area was reduced to ashes and more than 70,000 people were killed.

The United States views the regime’s latest undemocratic, authoritarian actions — driven by Ortega’s fear of an electoral loss — as the final blow against Nicaragua’s prospects for a free and fair election.

An upcoming UN report on climate change gives the international community its clearest ever warning about the dangers of accelerating climate change, Britain’s COP26 President Alok Sharma said yesterday. 

Centenarian Sami Lakachiang is considered the oldest person in Kakrachhara Punji, an indigenous village located in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila.

The Soviet Union and India signed a treaty of peace, friendship and nonaggression today. The essence of the treaty was its provision that in the event of attack or the threat of attack there would be immediate mutual consultations.

Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Najma Chowdhury died yesterday, just a few days after testing positive for Covid-19.

Fishermen in ​​Patuakhali’s Kuakata say they are frustrated for not getting enough hilsa in the sea after the end of a 65-day ban on netting the fish on July 23.

Prior to the start of the five-match T20I series against Australia, there were not many who would have thought that Bangladesh could go on to win the series with two games in hand despite the fact that the visitors were without some of their top batsmen.