Two former British prime ministers yesterday warned the country’s current leader Boris Johnson against cuts to foreign aid spending.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha yesterday, amid signs of progress in their talks as Washington speeds up its withdrawal.

Police on Friday night arrested a 35-year-old man for setting his wife on fire leaving her critically injured in Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kurigram’s Roumari border area early yesterday, said police.

Joe Biden yesterday reached the two-week mark since becoming president-elect, with President Donald Trump stinging from back-to-back setbacks in his desperate, unprecedented bid to undo his election defeat.

Eighteen eminent citizens yesterday condemned the filing of a defamation case against a female employee of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) by a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Probashi Kallyan Bank, a specialised financial institution for migrant workers, is struggling to conduct its day-to-day activities due to manpower shortage.

Scottish author Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his acclaimed debut novel “Shuggie Bain,” set in his home city of Glasgow.

All health inspectors, assistant health inspectors and health assistants will start work abstention for an indefinite period from November 26, demanding a solution to “salary discrimination”.

CID officers arrested a morgue assistant of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College on charges of necrophilia.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the opposition leaders and activists were being made to disappear to stop the criticism of the government’s misdeeds.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday backed one of his senior ministers after an independent inquiry concluded she had broken rules following allegations of bullying of her staff, prompting the report’s author quit.

US giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech was preparing yesterday to file an emergency request to roll out their vaunted vaccine while New York shut its schools and California braced for nighttime curfews heading into the US holiday season.

India is keen to work with Bangladesh on defence hardware platforms like Akash missile, radars, mortars, artillery guns and ammunitions, said Raj Kumar, secretary (defence production) of Indian defence ministry.

Police arrested a man on charges of raping a madrasa student in Jashore town early yesterday.

Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth.

The Dhaka University yesterday postponed the admission test for the evening programme of Master of Business Administration (MBA).

The Armed Forces Day is being celebrated today amid festivity and enthusiasm, marking the establishment of the forces during the Liberation War.

Pakistan President ZA Bhutto announces at a jirga meeting today that 10,000 Bangalee women and children would be allowed to go back to their

AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s potential Covid-19 vaccine produced a strong immune response in older adults, data published yesterday showed as the world Health Organisation warned that vaccines would not arrive in time to defeat the second wave of the pandemic.