A union parishad member in Saidpur upazila of Nilphamari is enjoying a government allowance meant for the elderly poor people.

The Security Council’s committee on the admission of new members by an overwhelming majority favours the immediate admission of Bangladesh into the United Nations today.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday arrested the president of Chhatra League Faridpur district unit in connection with a money laundering case.

Vast areas in the country’s southern region have been affected by floods, while water has been receding from the northern region and some other districts.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was in a coma in a Siberian hospital yesterday after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison.

Five youths were arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a garment worker in Narayanganj yesterday.

Forty-three-year-old Khairun Begum, a resident of Hajipur union in Moulvibazar, has been getting old-age allowance over the last few years.

Terming collective action the key to fight against the global pandemic like COVID-19, Dr David Nabarro, special envoy to the Directorate General of WHO on Covid-19, stressed on adequate investment in the local level public health systems for the continuation of regular health care services during the pandemic.

Lebanon’s economic crisis doubled poverty rates to more than half the population even before this month’s cataclysmic explosion at Beirut’s port, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.

One African man died and eight people were injured when around 300 migrants tried to storm the border fence separating the Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco yesterday, local authorities said.

The British government came under fresh pressure yesterday over its botched policy for grading exams cancelled during the coronavirus lockdown, as a new set of results showed a surge in top marks.

Europe can combat the coronavirus without full lockdowns now that authorities are better prepared and have gained knowledge about how to fight it in recent months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon was arrested yesterday and charged along with three others for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign -- a blow to the Republican incumbent.

Following his gallbladder surgery on July 31, Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman flies to Geneva on a chartered plane from London today for convalescence in Switzerland as a guest of the Swiss Government.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested an alleged ringleader of a Kuwait-based human trafficking gang in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi upazila.

India reported its highest single-day death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday, reporting 1,099 fatalities as coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the globe.

As many as 99 percent of potential migrants will opt to stay at home if there are better job opportunities in Bangladesh, says a report of International Organisation for Migration.

Malaysian police did not bring any charge against the young Bangladeshi Rayhan Kabir who was arrested in Malaysia and he will be sent back to Bangladesh soon.

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury was sued in Chattogram yesterday for hurting religious sentiments of Hindu people and defaming the community with derogatory comments.

A committee formed with three ministers to look into how the Road Transport Act-2018 could be implemented, is going to propose changes to the act.