A car bomb near a vegetable market in northeastern Syria killed five people including children yesterday in the Turkish-held border town of Ras al-Ain, a war monitor said.

Britain’s government is under growing pressure to abandon plans to reopen most primary schools in England, with one teachers’ union demanding evidence it is safe to open and another telling members they do not have to work in an unsafe environment.

China has rebuffed the latest offer of talks from Taiwan, saying the government was engaging in a “cheap trick” and provocation, claiming the island was seeking confrontation with China at every turn.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh will be able to buy the Covid-19 vaccine at a lower cost compared to many other countries due to the government’s prompt decisions in this regard.

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it intends to produce uranium enriched to up to 20 percent purity, well beyond the threshold set by the 2015 Vienna accord, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday.

The United States marked the New Year on Friday by passing the extraordinary milestone of 20 million Covid-19 cases, after global celebrations welcoming in 2021 were largely muted by the pandemic.

Bangladesh Upazila Parishad Association has alleged that upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) are playing the role of rulers at the upazila level.

The price of onions has dropped to Tk 10-15 per kilogram as the import of the daily essentials from India started yesterday.

India yesterday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first vaccine.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says that some elements are trying to create disorder and communalism. He adds that those

It was not the family reunion that she had hoped for.

After a spectacular year, precious metals are set for further gains in 2021, with silver tipped to outperform, but analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects for gold as the global economy recovers from the impact of the coronavirus.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who also heads the country’s cricket board (BCCI), was stable yesterday after he underwent angioplasty in Kolkata following chest pain.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says some have realised that people would not vote for them and they are trying to create disruption to foil the elections.

Eighteen fishermen from Kuakata area have remained missing for 22 days while fishing in the Bay of Bengal.

Bangladesh Columnists’ Forum (BCF) -- a platform of senior journalists, academics, researchers and economists specialising in commentaries on contemporary issues of national and global nature -- began its journey yesterday, says a press release.

The first ferry from Britain bound for Calais after the UK’s exit from the EU customs union docked in the northern French port yesterday, with three dozen vehicles disembarking in a smooth operation, an AFP correspondent said.

The opposition Greens and the far-left Die Linke are fiercely opposed.

Singapore and neighbouring Malaysia have scrapped plans for a high-speed rail line after failing to agree on changes, officials said yesterday, finally abandoning a costly and long-troubled project.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday detained two men for their alleged involvement with banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.