A spokesperson of the foreign ministry informs that Bangladesh will apply for UN membership in the upcoming session of the General Assembly which will begin in the third week of September. According to UN rules, Bangladesh will submit its application 35 days before commencement of the session.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid yesterday demanded removal of Health Minister Zahid Maleque and appointment of competent and committed people in key posts of the ministry to tackle the pandemic.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the Anti-Corruption Commission and parliament to conduct an immediate and effective investigation into the involvement of Laxmipur lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam in human trafficking and money laundering.

UN and other aid agencies are concerned that the monsoon will exacerbate the already dire situation in the Rohingya camps where almost 860,000 refugees live in crammed accommodations, many of which are located in hazardous terrain.

Coronavirus cases are soaring in several major countries at the same time, with “worrying increases” in Latin America, especially Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Lives of about 4.59 lakh children and mothers of South Asian countries are in danger as they are being deprived of vital health services due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said a UNICEF report.

In a joint statement issued today by the foreign ministers of Britain and Bangladesh, it is said that Britain will support Bangladesh’s candidacy at the UN. Britain also assures Bangladesh of providing support in its reconstruction effort, adds the statement.

The UN on Monday urged Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to “work together” to resolve differences over Addis Ababa’s Nile River mega-dam which has been a long-running source of regional tension.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “shootout” with Rab members in Gazipur’s Tongi upazila early yesterday.

Three people were killed and two others burnt in a fire caused by a gas cylinder explosion in Hatia upazila of Noakhali on Monday night.

Former information minister and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday urged the government to come forward and help the country’s media, which has been affected due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than half of all US states saw a rise in new coronavirus infections, with some breaking daily records while Germany announced a new lockdown after an outbreak of infections at a slaughterhouse.

Malaysia is not going to recruit any foreign workers until the end of the year as it has decided to prioritise jobs for locals amid the economic slowdown caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.

A retired ENT Professor at Chattogram Medical College Hospital died of Covid-19 on Sunday.

South Korea said for the first time it is in the midst of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections as World Health Organization (WHO) reported a record increase in global cases, with the total rising by 183,020 in a 24-hour period.

Police arrested a ninth-grader in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila on Saturday night allegedly for putting up a Facebook post “defaming” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A group of university teachers yesterday demanded abolition of the Digital Security Act (DSA) saying the government is “applying the law only against those who have been outspoken about corruption, abduction and killing.”

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction till August 10 on the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority’s decision of hiking water price by 25 percent from April 1.

Bangladesh Awami League, one of the oldest political parties of the country, is celebrating its 71st founding anniversary today on a limited scale amid the coronavirus outbreak.

When Hafizur Rahman was admitted to the General Hospital in Pabna with coronavirus-like symptoms on Friday afternoon in rapidly deteriorating condition, access to an oxygen cylinder was his only hope as there was no ICU support in the district.