Bangladesh required something extraordinary to earn a victory in the third T20I against Australia in defence of a small 127-run total and the Tigers did it in style to re-write history at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha and model Mariam Akhter Mou were placed today on different terms of remand in four separate cases filed with Gulshan, Bhatara, Khilkhet and Mohammadpur police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.

Two hundred and forty-eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh is already leading the series 2-0.

Nasir Ali’s family is one of many farming families of Bangladesh that are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

At least 214 people with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in the country in 24 hours till 8am today. Of them, only three are from outside Dhaka.

Newly-elected Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi wants to closely work with Bangladesh for mutual benefit of the two countries.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help millions of people in Myanmar facing food insecurity amid a wave of Covid-19 infections and political unrest in the southeast Asian nation.

Hiroshima on Friday marked the 76th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, as the mayor of the Japanese city urged global leaders to unite to eliminate nuclear weapons, just as they are united against the coronavirus.

South Africa's jailed former president, Jacob Zuma, was admitted to hospital for medical observation on Friday, the government's Correctional Services department said.

Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman, a retired judge of the High Court, has died from Covid-19 infection.

A lot of different statements about the Covid-19 vaccination have come from various places. But neither the health ministry nor the health directorate is responsible for all of those statements, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Director General Professor Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam said today.

All we can do now is wait and watch as things unfold.

Equipment belonging to a project undertaken by DNCC worth Tk 746 crore is at risk of becoming dysfunctional.

Scientists from the world’s four major economies, India, China, Russia and Brazil, have come together to carry out genomic sequencing of Covid-19 and studies on the epidemiology and mathematical modelling of the pandemic.

Fifteen people died while undergoing treatment at the Covid-19 unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital in 24 hours till 8am today.

Unvaccinated individuals will not be allowed to enter Benapole Customs House, according to a directive issued by the authorities last night.

The Prime Minister of the Caribbean country St Vincent and the Grenadines was struck by an object on Thursday during protests and later received medical treatment for injuries, according to local media reports and images circulating online.

President Joe Biden on Thursday offered temporary "safe haven" to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing what could be thousands of people to extend their stay in response to Beijing's crackdown on democracy in the Chinese territory.

It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.