Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the members of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP to motivate rural people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine to eliminate the pandemic.

Haitian police fired tear gas on hundreds of protesters who were marching against President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, and attacked journalists covering the demonstration, in the latest clashes to mark the country’s political crisis.

At least six Bangladeshi migrants were killed in a factory fire at the Saudi Arabian city of Madinah on Wednesday night.

India and China began to pull back troops and battle tanks from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas yesterday in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border.

Bangladesh Army Chief General Aziz Ahmed reiterated Bangladesh’s unwavering commitment and continued support to the UN peace operations during his meetings with top UN officials this week, said an ISPR press release issued on Wednesday.

Police teams tracking a woman in connection with a general diary unexpectedly ended up at the scene of a gruesome murder at an apartment near Sayedabad Bus Terminal in the capital yesterday.

Police in Dinajpur are looking for a 50-year-old local Awami League leader accused of raping a teenage girl several times and filming the acts to blackmail her and her parents.

The AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine can be used for people aged over 65, and also where coronavirus variants of concern are circulating, WHO experts has said , soothing fears about the jab.

Fifty-nine eminent civil society members yesterday sent letters to the Chattogram Hill Tracts affairs minister and the ministry secretary, army chief, and defence and environment ministries demanding the authorities stop the construction of a five-star hotel on Mro land in Bandarban.

After more than 17,000 years of silence and decades forgotten in a French museum, a shell fashioned into a horn by our prehistoric ancestors has been played again as a result of new research published Wednesday.

Persons with disabilities have to pay between Tk 1,000 and Tk 3,000 extra to be included in the government’s disability allowance scheme, said a new report of Transparency International Bangladesh.

Libya has rescued more than 1,500 would-be migrants off its west coast in the past week, a non-governmental organisation said.

Turkey yesterday rejected a US call to release jailed civil society leader Osman Kavala, accusing Washington of interference.

Bangladesh recorded 10 novel coronavirus deaths and 388 fresh cases in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday failed to agree on a joint declaration on war-torn Syria, capping a day of negotiations in which the organization’s special envoy to the country called to jump-start the deadlocked peace process.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh would extend its highest possible support to the Maldives in fighting the adverse impacts of global warming.

Intellectuals who lost their lives at the hands of Pakistani army and their collaborators in the Liberation War will be defined as martyred intellectuals, according to a committee formed by the government.

Questioning the acceptability of a writ petition seeking a ban on the broadcast of Al Jazeera and the removal of its report “Al the Prime Minister’s Men” from digital platforms, the High Court yesterday wanted to hear opinions from six legal experts as amici curiae (friends of court).

A divided US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to move ahead with Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, but Republican senators made clear how difficult it will be to win a conviction.

Changes in attitude are imperative for Bangladesh as they try to salvage a drawn series with a win in the last of two Tests against the West Indies, starting at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.