The next conference of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) will be held in 2021 commemorating the “Mujib Borsho”.

A Bogura court yesterday sent an official of Jamuna Bank to jail on charges of embezzling Tk 12.16 crore.

Coronavirus deaths in the United States surged to their highest level in months yesterday as Italy extended state of emergency to fight the lingering pandemic.

A virtual court in Dhaka yesterday rejected a bail petition of photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).

The coronavirus pandemic might have left many restaurants empty, but one establishment in Tokyo is relying on some model customers to enforce social distancing: life-like mannequins keeping diners from getting too close.

An olive-sized gallstone is removed during a successful surgery on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the London Clinic today.

The government has again extended the closure of all educational institutions in the country until August 31 considering the coronavirus situation.

Mohammad Rayhan Kabir, a young Bangladeshi who spoke in a documentary aired by Al Jazeera and was arrested in Malaysia, said he only spoke of what he witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic. His intention, however, was not to offend anyone in Malaysia.

The ruling Awami League could spend a little over a third of the Tk 21.2 crore it earned last year, resulting in a 35 percent increase in the party’s savings, the AL has said.

Marginalised communities are getting a meagre amount of aid from the Covid-19 crisis allocations.

A laptop and a smartphone with internet access.

Beirut, Lebanon - Hezbollah denied its fighters staged an “infiltration attempt” that led to clashes with Israeli forces on Monday calling the Israeli account a move to create “false victories”.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in two of India’s poorest states have displaced or affected 8 million people and killed 111 since May, authorities said yesterday, at a time when coronavirus cases have swelled there.

A group of masked men has looted gold ornaments from a house, beaten up the owner couple and raped their daughter in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila.

The spread of coronavirus does not appear to be impacted by seasonality, the World Health Organization said yesterday, warning against false beliefs that summer is safer.

Malaysia’s former leader, Najib Razak, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 12 years in jail yesterday in the first trial over a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB that stretched to the Gulf states and Hollywood.

The health ministry has decided to hold a meeting with the leaders of private medical associations in the wake of allegations against different private hospitals over Covid-19 test and treatment.

Ganoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has urged the prime minister to take steps to ease the approval procedures for private hospitals and also the rules for blood transfusion to make plasma treatment available to all.

Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said on Monday.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be operated upon to remove a gallbladder stone tomorrow at London Clinic.