Amar Ekushey Boi Mela-2021 will be held as usual, not virtually as previously reported, but will start later than the scheduled February 1.

Bangladeshi migrant worker Sheikh Kibria recalls with horror the filthy, overcrowded dormitory where he was housed by the world’s biggest rubber glove manufacturer when a coronavirus outbreak erupted and infected thousands.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to ensure display of charts containing fees for medical tests of Covid-19 patients at the main gates of hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres across the country.

London and Brussels agreed to “go the extra mile” in coming days to try to reach an elusive trade agreement despite missing their latest deadline to avert a turbulent ‘no deal’ exit for Britain from the European Union’s orbit at the end of the month.

A 13-year-old girl from a village in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila was abducted, gang raped for more than a month, and then left unconscious by a road on August 24. Her sufferings, however, were still not over.

Formalities for the commencement of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on December 16 are being undertaken by the Gono Parishad (Constituent Assembly) at its two-day special session.

Iran yesterday summoned the envoys of Germany, current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, and of France over criticism of the execution of an Iranian journalist, Iranian media reported.

The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will reach hospitals and other sites across the United States by this morning, ready to be injected into the arms of millions of the most vulnerable Americans as the global death toll topped 1.6 million.

A Kushtia court ordered two madrasa students accused of vandalising a sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to be sent to jail after recording their statements under section-164 yesterday evening.

Although former Cox’s Bazar superintendent of police ABM Masud Hossain was named in the charge sheet filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, he was not formally charged for the murder.

Low temperature coupled with fog has been disrupting people’s daily lives and disrupting communications over the last few days.

Six people, including five councillors of Sylhet City Corporation, were seen in a Facebook Live video having the meat of wild birds at a diner in Jaintiapur upazila’s Haripur Bazar area on Friday night.

As many as six Mro villages would be evicted and 116 Mro settlements would be adversely affected if the plan of Marriot Hotel and Resort is implemented, said speakers at a virtual conference yesterday.

Lakingme Chakma was a student of class-VI and according to her birth certificate she was 14 years and 10 months old on January 5 when she was abducted from her home.

The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden.

Boundless joy overwhelms Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as he sees the manuscript of the 153-article constitution of the People’s

Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums.

Johns Hopkins, the celebrated philanthropist who supported the abolition of slavery and whose wealth allowed him to found the prestigious US university that bears his name, owned slaves, the Baltimore-based institution confirmed Friday.

Separatist officials in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday said that three fighters were wounded in a skirmish with Azerbaijani forces, undermining a recent peace deal brokered by Russia.

An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned Morocco’s normalisation of ties with the Islamic republic’s arch foe Israel, calling it a “betrayal of Islam”.