Kathalbari Ferry Ghat in Madaripur is being shifted to Banglabazar, 500 metres upstream of the Padma, for facilitating construction of the Padma Bridge and protecting the river bank.

Sixty-two eminent citizens yesterday issued a statement against the construction of the Marriott hotel and resort at Bandarban’s Chandrapahar, popularly known as Chimbuk.

Undocumented Bangladeshis living in Peninsular Malaysia will get a chance to be regularised and recruited under a new programme.

Seven years after the Edward Snowden scandal, new allegations that the US spied on close allies have emerged in Denmark, this time regarding the defence industry and a Danish fighter jet tender won by the US.

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, Nasa’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.

The parliamentary body on Women and Children Affairs yesterday placed its final report on the Women and Children Repression Prevention (amendment) Bill 2020 before the House keeping the provision of death penalty for rape.

Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine was 94.5 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial, the company said yesterday, becoming the second US drugmaker to report results that far exceed expectations.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is expected to announce the new pay scales of the government on Victory Day, to be

The government is going to take up a Tk 5,905-crore project to repair rural roads and fix infrastructure damaged by Cyclone Amphan, floods and heavy rains this year.

Germany yesterday warned that its anti-coronavirus measures were likely to last four or five more months, as Greece announced a new ban on gatherings and Mexico surpassed one million infections.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was found infected with Covid-19 on Saturday night.

My family and I had known Soumitra babu from when I was in my mid-teens. He often came to our house and addressed my father as “dada” and my mother as “boudi”. As time passed, we did many films together and became good friends.

To me, Soumitra Chatterjee was a guiding light.

The head of an ancient statue of the Greek god Hermes has been unearthed during excavations for sewage system improvements in central Athens, the ministry of culture said Sunday.

Soumitra Chatterjee was a guardian of Bangalee culture. It is an irreparable loss. Although my senior, he was more like a friend. A man of high morals, Soumitra dominated all spheres of culture.

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was cremated yesterday evening and a gun-salute at Kolkata’s Keoratala Burning Ghat.

Brazilians yesterday voted in municipal elections that will test the strength of the country’s rightward shift under President Jair Bolsonaro, with the coronavirus pandemic looming large.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said he favours a permanent division of Cyprus into two states, during a visit to the breakaway Turkish-held north decried as a “provocation” by the internationally recognised Greek-speaking south.

The head of Algeria’s top private media group was jailed for five years yesterday, the company said, the toughest sentence handed to a press mogul in the North African country.

An 11-year-old Tripura girl was found dead at the house of a Jubo League leader in Khagrachhari on Friday.