President Allende of Chile and President Fidel Castro of Cuba expressed their good wishes to the people and the government of Bangladesh and high esteem for Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The Partition in 1947 could not keep them apart.

Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, his ministry said yesterday, as the country posted a new daily record for infections.

Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, his ministry said yesterday, as the country posted a new daily record for infections.

As the US awaits the crucial presidential elections, analysts predict the outcome was unlikely to affect the existing Dhaka-Washington relations despite speculations about the polls impact on US ties with some other nations.

The government has sought financial support of $500 million from Japan for the procurement of Covid-19 vaccine.

The local administration yesterday imposed a one-day ban on holding any public gathering in Faridpur’s Sadarpur upazila town.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide victory in New Zealand’s general election yesterday, leveraging success battling Covid-19 into an unprecedented majority she said gave her a mandate for progressive reform.

A housewife was gang-raped, allegedly by three people, in a remote char area under Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali on Friday night.

Police yesterday held countrywide rallies against rape and all sorts of violence against women in a bid to create public awareness.

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our sun, releasing images that show the devastating process in unprecedented details.

President Donald Trump delivered a combative defense on Thursday of his Covid-19 response while election challenger Joe Biden -- offering a glaring contrast in style in a rival town hall -- accused him of doing “nothing” to end the pandemic.

A college student was gang-raped in Gazipur on Thursday evening and a 10-year-old girl was raped in Khulna on Wednesday.

Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China’s coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.

One thousand five hundred and nine people recovered from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, taking the total number of recovery cases to 300,738.

A newborn girl, declared dead by a doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday, was found alive hours later, just before she was about to be buried at a city graveyard.

On the day Lt Col Dewan Mohammad Tasawwar Raja, who has been in a coma for more than seven years, was supposed to retire, he was instead promoted to colonel.

Tea is fast replacing tobacco in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari as favourable weather and soil conditions along with a ready market next door mean large profits for farmers.

Bangladesh has become a permanent observer of the United Nations, informs a spokesman for UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.

Millions of garment workers could lose their jobs as global brands are demanding price cuts and delaying payments to suppliers who are desperate for orders to survive the new coronavirus pandemic, US researchers said yesterday.