Authorities in India’s Jammu and Kashmir will implement a law to grant land rights to forest dwelling communities 14 years after the legislation was enacted nationwide, a long-awaited move that may better protect nomadic tribes, human rights activists said.

The United Nations has adopted a resolution stating that there should be an urgent solution to the Rohingya crisis to ensure safe and sustainable return of Rohingyas to their homes by creating a conducive environment inside Myanmar.

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.

In the face of criticisms, the government is going to evaluate its economic rescue scheme announced six months ago to tackle the fallout of the pandemic.

A man detained in a rape case yesterday married his victim at Feni jail gate in order to get bail in line with a directive from the High Court.

The “Narcotics Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020” was passed in parliament yesterday, dropping the provision of setting up separate narcotics control tribunals to pave the way for competent courts to try the narcotics-related crimes.

Bangladesh and India have decided to repatriate to Pakistan members of the families of Pakistani civilian internees and prisoners of war as “a humanitarian gesture”, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry announces today.

Whenever the issue of relief misappropriation arises, the finger is usually pointed toward public representatives. In many cases, they are found to be involved in relief misappropriation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked global leaders to ensure concessional finance and debt relief and access to technology for all to overcome the impending crisis posed by climate change.

The number of new Covid-19 cases declined last week for the first time in over three months, but deaths in the region continued to climb, WHO data showed yesterday.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved a proposal to procure 40 lakh machine-readable passport (MRP) books to meet the immediate requirement of Bangladeshi expatriates.

A robot has signed on as the newest staff member at a store in Japan, taking on the job of ensuring customers wear masks and practice social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today calls upon peace-loving people of the world to strengthen the movement for

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) yesterday closed five drug rehabilitation centres in the capital as those were running without licence.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said he was surprised to see the number of government officials who siphoned off money and sent the amounts to Toronto, Canada, outnumbering politicians.

The US issued an emergency use authorization for the first self-administered rapid coronavirus test Tuesday, as more parts of the country increase restrictions in an attempt to halt a Covid-19 surge.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Myanmar’s lack of sincerity was the key reason for the delay in Rohingya repatriation.

The United States yesterday imposed sweeping new sanctions targeting Iran, blacklisting a foundation controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and taking aim at what Washington called Iran’s human rights abuses a year after a deadly crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.

Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the US government’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’s unsubstantiated claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden.

A female student of class ten was raped in a village of Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila yesterday morning, police said.