The highest point on Earth got a bit higher yesterday as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate.

Two Bangladeshis died of bullet wounds after being shot by Indian Border Security Force on Betna border in the district’s Haripur upazila early yesterday

The World Health Organization said on Monday that persuading people on the merits of a Covid-19 vaccine would be far more effective than trying to make the jabs mandatory.

Parvez Morshed thought he was going to become a tailor in Saudi Arabia, but the Bangladeshi migrant was tricked by a recruiter and ended up working as a builder earning half the promised pay.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver died in custody at Dashmina Police Station in Patuakhali.

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his entire song catalogue to Universal Music Group (UMG).

Civicus, an international non-profit that fights for civil liberties and civic rights globally, released a report yesterday classifying Bangladesh as “repressed”.

Substantial progress has been made by the government in scrutinizing existing laws to identify the provisions which will automatically become

Dhaka South City Corporation yesterday demolished several hundred illegal shops at Fulbaria Supermarket-2 in Gulistan, which was built violating the main design of the supermarket.

Justice For Myanmar yesterday published data from Ministry of Defence budget documents, spanning a period from the 2016-17 financial year to 2020-21, exposing the greed and corruption of the Myanmar military cartel, and its international business networks that enable the military’s continued criminal conduct.

Stock market regulator has written to the police to take initiatives so that six directors of three listed companies cannot flee the country.

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed five south Yemen separatists in Abyan province yesterday, in the terror group’s biggest attack in the region for months, a secessionist security official said.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday approved one more commercial bank, taking the total number of banks in the country to 61.

Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said yesterday.

Valiant freedom fighter Captain Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday morning.

Israel-based broadcaster i24NEWS and Abu Dhabi Media, a public conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday a content sharing arrangement after the Jewish state and UAE normalised ties.

Fifteen eminent citizens, mostly cultural personalities, yesterday demanded immediate arrest of culprits who recently vandalised an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia.

Since the Covid-19 outbreak, French care home resident Colette Dupas’s contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call, or through a window.

Eight inmates, aged between 13 and 15, fled from Jashore juvenile correction centre early yesterday.

Cybercrime is expected to cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year, up more than 50 percent since 2018, a research report said yesterday.