UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has called upon the United Nations to step up its efforts to protect civilians in Rakhine and Chin states of Myanmar, alleging ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by the Myanmar military there.

At least 13 prison guards, who watched over inmates at hospitals, tested positive for the coronavirus.

An economic delegation from Frankfurt calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today at his official residence. They discuss various economic issues related to the reconstruction of the economy of Bangladesh and trade between the two countries.

Acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose international movie career included hits such as “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Life of Pi” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”, has died aged 53, his publicist said yesterday.

A shipbreaking company is set to illegally import a highly toxic ship for scrapping, risking workers’ health and environmental damage.

The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) defended the agency’s record in its response to the new coronavirus in a news briefing yesterday, saying it had acted “quickly and decisively”.

Sixteen Bangladeshi civil society organisations have urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres to ask the destination countries to shelve their policies of deporting migrant workers amid Covid-19 pandemic.

The country was left in a state of mourning after National Professor, renowned scholar and Civil Engineer Dr Jamilur Reza Choudhury passed away at the age of 77 at home in Dhaka early yesterday

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has made it clear that they are not going to submit their rapid test kits to the drug administration through any contract research organisation (CRO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday appealed for more flight capacity to step up shipments of diagnostic tests and protective equipment to areas where Covid-19 is spreading, especially Latin America.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission yesterday finalised its recommendation to recruit 2,000 doctors and 5,000 nurses to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says in Dhaka that foreign troops should be withdrawn immediately from the soil of Vietnam. Talking to BSS, the prime minister says that the people of Vietnam should be allowed to decide their own fate.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares that his government will no more permit religion to be used for any political purposes, to

A suspected criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with members of the Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur city early yesterday.

When the whole country is fighting to check Covid-19 spread, the current spell of rain may increase the density of Aedes population in the absence of enough anti-mosquito drives in the capital, say experts.

Nearly a thousand villagers in Dinajpur and Tangail yesterday blocked highways demanding food.

A top UN official has urged Bangladesh to let two stranded boatloads of starving Rohingya Muslims land amid mounting fears over the fate of the refugees.

Children in China’s two most important cities went back to school yesterday after more than three months at home, as coronavirus restrictions eased and governments around the world began charting a path out of the pandemic lockdown.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh yesterday extended the ongoing ban on schedule passenger flight operations with all countries, except for China, until May 7 to contain the transmission of Covid-19 in the country.

The dark clouds of April’s nor’westers loom large over Lara’s tomorrow.