A satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in last week’s assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards told local media on Sunday night.

Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines by volume and India’s main hope of large-scale supplies, said yesterday it had lodged the first formal application for emergency use approval for AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Two women were allegedly raped in Gazipur and Noakhali while a youth in Gazipur’s Sreepur was sued over spreading secretly-recorded video footage of a teenage girl on social media.

A case was filed yesterday against 533 people over attacking Titas Gas officials during a drive against illegal gas connections in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila.

The feud between a city corporation councillor and a local daily resulting in cases filed under Digital Security Act in Sylhet have been the talk of the town over the last few days.

President-elect Joe Biden yesterday named the team tasked with turning around the United States’ floundering efforts to quell the Covid-19 pandemic, nominating Xavier Becerra as his secretary of health.

A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe’s biggest “vertical farms” which has just opened in a warehouse in an industrial zone in Copenhagen.

Indian External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh says today that unless Pakistan recognises Bangladesh and unless Bangladesh is admitted to the

The horror and the deaths had turned it into hell on earth in 1971.

Associates of lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim had pre-emptively torn down parts of an illegal structure that he had allegedly built ahead of yesterday’s eviction drive by the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority in Old Dhaka’s Shoari Ghat.

More than 30,000 government websites of the Bangladesh National Portal were inaccessible since yesterday morning due to an electrical fault in the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited server.

Javed Iqbal lived in Oman for 11 years and returned home to Swandip in 2016 with a plan to settle down in the country.

Venezuelans voted yesterday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and further weaken his US-backed opposition rival Juan Guaido, who is leading a boycott of the polls he calls a fraud.

For the third day in a row, the United States on Saturday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching nearly 230,000 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said yesterday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections.

Rab members yesterday detained 14 Rohingyas and two alleged human traffickers from Habibur Rahman Chattar of Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila.

Police arrested a man early yesterday on charge of raping a minor girl in Cox’s Bazar and another man was arrested on Saturday allegedly for raping his daughters in Khagrachhari.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat in Dhaka.

A member of Parbatya Chattogram Jubo Samity was shot dead at his home in Baghaichari upazila early yesterday

Border Guard Bangladesh officers seized 60 gold bars on Shahajatpur border in Chaugachha, Jashore early yesterday.