Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, yesterday urged countries to be patient for supplies of Covid-19 vaccine Covishield as the company has been directed to prioritise the “huge needs” of India.

Detectives yesterday arrested five people, including two impersonating journalists, in Nasirabad area of Chattogram for attempting to frame a shop owner by planting bullets and yaba pills in his shop early yesterday.

Bangladesh-India home secretary-level meeting will be held in Dhaka on February 27, a month before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned visit to Dhaka on March 26-27.

At least six people were killed and at least 13 others injured when a Bogura-bound bus crashed into a truck coming from the opposite direction in Sherpur upazila of the district around 5:00am yesterday.

Jahanginagar University authorities yesterday filed a case against 250 unnamed locals who allegedly attacked students on Friday evening over a cricket match.

Five people were killed in the severe floods that submerged entire neighbourhoods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, authorities said yesterday, as residents returned to clean their homes and salvage belongings.

Dramatic footage released by Chinese state media purportedly shows deadly clashes between troops at the Indian border last year -- a rare insight into violence at the tense, remote frontier.

A Joypurhat court yesterday sent a man to jail for his alleged involvement in the rape of a 10-year-old mentally challenged girl in the district.

Since her husband Abrahm Soreng died two years ago, 70-year-old Veronica Kerketa doesn’t get the chance to talk in her mother tongue at home. None of her children or grandchildren speak the Kharia language.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said there is an enormous scope for private sectors of Bangladesh and Japan to engage in trade and investment for mutual benefit.

The government is working to sign mutual recognition agreements (MRA) with different countries and regional bodies so Bangladeshi migrant workers’ skills certifications are accepted internationally, two officials said yesterday.

A man was killed and at least 20 others were injured in sporadic clashes over establishing supremacy and business rivalry between two groups in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.

More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources.

Some 1.5 percent of the target people have been inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines as 2,34,564 new people received the first jab yesterday.

Police arrested a 17-year old boy and sent him to jail on Friday for the murder of his stepmother and her two children in Sylhet Sadar upazila.

A local court yesterday placed Gazipur City Corporation Councillor Roksana Ahmed Rozi on one-day remand in a case over forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution.

Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second city Mandalay yesterday when police fired to disperse protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, emergency workers said, the bloodiest day in more than two weeks of demonstrations.

Several hundred students of Jahangirnagar University broke open the locks to all 16 residential halls yesterday, a day after at least 35 students were injured in clashes with villagers just outside the campus.

A 90-year-old American woman trudged six miles in a foot of snow with two walking sticks to get her coronavirus vaccination.

US President Joe Biden has welcomed the new Bangladesh ambassador to his country and expressed his government’s desire to advance common goals and deepen the strong and abiding friendship between the two countries.