Pakistan’s 2017 census recorded about 10,000 transgender people, though trans rights groups say the number could now be well over 300,000 in the country of 220 million.

Two police officers were seriously injured and at least two police vehicles were set on fire in the city of Bristol in southwest England during violent scenes after a peaceful protest, police said.

Demonstrators in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist growing pressure to compromise.

Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands more people from flood-affected suburbs in Sydney’s west, which is set for its worst flooding in 60 years.

Confidence in the safety of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has taken a big hit in Spain, Germany, France and Italy as reports of rare blood clots have been linked to it and many countries briefly stopped using it, poll data showed.

Former special correspondent of the state-owned news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Nurul Huda was laid to rest at the Banani graveyard yesterday.

Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki upon his return to the West Bank from a meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.

Former US President Donald Trump, suspended from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, plans to launch his own platform in two to three months, one of his senior advisers told Fox News on Sunday.

World Book of Records, a UK-based organisation, yesterday honoured Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury for his matchless contribution to digitalising services and turning the ministry into a transparent and accountable public institution.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today said the state government of Mizoram wants to establish border huts and a land port along border to boost trade as well as commerce and improve the communications system with Bangladesh.

Roksana Khatun moves aside dirt and floating leaves from a pond, slowly lowers her earthen pitcher into it and fills it with around 20 litres of water.

Nine UK-returnees of the same family finally returned to the institutional quarantine centre in Sylhet city tonight, hours after they “disappeared” from there this morning.

The online process of filling out forms for this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations will start from April 1 and will continue till April 7.

Christina Kelly did not picture marrying her American sweetheart in the Peace Arch Park - a 42-acre (17-hectare) stretch of manicured lawns and neatly trimmed garden beds at an otherwise unremarkable border crossing in the Pacific Northwest.

Enamur Rahman, the state minister for disaster management and relief, has tested positive for Covid-19.

The Supreme Court administration has asked the subordinate civil courts and Artha Rin Adalats (Money Loan Courts) concerned across the county to dispose of cases through mediation in line with the provisions of relevant laws in order to reduce the huge backlog.

Ambassador of USA to Bangladesh Earl R Miller today said that the US-Bangladesh Business Council will be launched soon to facilitate US investments in the country.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) today urged the government to impose fine, scrap taxes and bond facilities of those firms which are recruiting foreign nationals without the approval of the authority concerned.

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.

The local police and administration were negligent in carrying out their responsibility to control the situation and prevent attacks on the Hindu community in Noagaon village of Sunamganj's Shalla upazila on March 17.