A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry.

Raw beef packed in polythene bags were hung on the doors of three Hindu temples and a house in Gendukuri village of Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila in the early hours of Friday.

With a target to inoculate 3.32 crore people with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, the government launched a special vaccination campaign yesterday.

The government yesterday increased the cash incentive for sending remittance through the official channel to 2.5 percent from 2 percent as it looks to stem the tide of sliding inflows.

The entire 2021 was frightening for rights activists, journalists, critics of the government and opposition party men, according to Ain o Salish Kendra.

In the eighth five-year plan, the government has set a target of raising GDP. After reaching the goal by 2024, the second

One must not lose faith in humanity, Mahatama Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent independence movement against British rule, once said. And events that transpired at Kushtia's Mirpur municipality in the early hours of yesterday bring to mind that saying.

The detention of cartoonists, bloggers and journalists under the Digital Security Act in Bangladesh has led to allegations of torture and death in custody, said a top diplomat at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The arrival of 4.5 million Covid vaccine doses in the country on Friday night and early yesterday has relieved a serious strain on the government.

Five people, including three of a family, were killed and four others injured when a truck and an ambulance collided on the East Link Road to Bangabandhu Bridge yesterday morning.

A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said yesterday. 

Over 100 migrants, including 29 children, were rescued in a single day as they tried to cross the Channel to reach the British coast on six makeshift boats on Friday, maritime authorities in France said. 

The Pakistan army painted big yellow "H" on the Hindu shops in Faridpur town to identify the properties of the minority population which it made its special targets, reported the New York Times correspondent Sydney H Schanberg.

The first consignment of nearly 3,800 tonnes of coal -- for Rampal Thermal Power Plant in Bangladesh -- has left India.

Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin was taken back to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University yesterday after he was found holding a Zoom meeting from the hospital's prison cell in a leaked video.

Police detained 14 Rohingyas, including children, from a bus stand in Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila on Friday amidst a countrywide lockdown.

Two students of Supto Sikha Protibondhi Vidhyalaya, a school for children with special needs, have become a source of pride for Bera upazila as well as Pabna because their paintings earned a place in the prime minister’s Eid greeting cards.

Bangladesh retained its position on "Tier 2" in the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report for the second year, showing signs of progress after being on the "Tier 2 Watch List" for the three previous years.

India became the third country to pass 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, official data showed yesterday, as the  

Migrant workers seeking Covid-19 vaccine yesterday faced difficulties in the capital and elsewhere registering with the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training allegedly for failing to make their online payments.