Delegates of western industrial powers and Japan today postponed discussion of fresh aid for Pakistan until a political settlement of the conflict between East and West Pakistan is in sight.

The proposed budget of fiscal 2021-22 failed to reflect the country’s recently-adopted stance of shifting from coal to renewable energy, raising questions on the government’s commitment to clean power generation.

India is boosting its production of Covid-19 vaccine, but there is no word yet when it can resume its export of the jabs to Bangladesh, the country’s high commissioner to Bangladesh said yesterday.

The Bangladesh Water Development Board yesterday forecast a possible flood due to the swelling of the Teesta caused by heavy rainfall in upstream India.

Bangladesh has abstained from voting a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and their repatriation from Bangladesh.

Having gotten used to a hand-to-mouth existence, and at times even worse, Birangona Shila Guha could never imagine that she would have her own a house with running water and electricity.

Brazil became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic.

A fourth-grader was killed after rape in Rajshahi yesterday, while three teenage boys were arrested for raping another minor girl in Manikganj.

The elections to 204 union parishads and two municipalities and by-polls to the Laxmipur-2 constituency are going to be held today amid coronavirus fears.

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday expressed extreme disappointment over the absence of DGHS Director General ABM Khurshid Alam in its meeting.

A few months after she was trafficked to India and forced into sex work, 18-year-old Sania, not her real name, found out that she was pregnant.

Though they didn’t use dormitory and transport facilities for around a year and half, Dhaka University students will have to pay for those.

The Sunday Times (London) alleged that the professional classes in Bangladesh were being eliminated in a new campaign of terror.

Trail-blazing space reproduction research that yielded healthy baby mice produced using freeze-dried sperm stored for years in orbit is showing the possibilities of procreation beyond Earth, with future implications for humans exploring the cosmos.

Surobala Das, 60, a landless single mother of three from Brahmanbaria cannot believe her luck.

Supporters of Myanmar’s detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi wore flowers in their hair and paraded with them at street demonstrations yesterday as she marked her 76th birthday locked up by the generals who overthrew her.

An extreme heat wave that has already shattered temperature records across the US Southwest threatened on Friday to push power systems to the brink of failure as residents cranked up air conditioners.

A fugitive was seen at the inauguration of a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Munshiganj where the Liberation War affairs minister, two MPs, a deputy commissioner were also present.

The hearsay of young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan hiding in one of his friend’s house in Gaibandha created confusion.

A 55-year-old man was shot dead in a remote village in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, on Friday night.