Around fifteen people have been injured during a clash between supporters of two rival union parishad candidates in Bagerhat’s Sadar Upazila.

Japan government has decided to extend emergency grant aid of USD 10 million for displaced Rohingyas and host communities in Bangladesh.

North Korea said it would sever diplomatic relations with Malaysia after a court there ruled that a North Korean man could be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges, state media KCNA reported.

Armed gunmen killed at least 13 Mexican police in an ambush in the central State of Mexico, local authorities have said, one of the worst mass slayings of security forces to rock the country in recent years.

Germany, France and other European nations have announced plans to resume using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after EU and British regulators moved to shore up confidence in the shot, saying its benefits outweigh the risks.

The United States and China leveled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration, with deeply strained relations of the two global rivals on rare public display during the meeting’s opening session in Alaska.

Thousands of opponents of military rule in Myanmar marched in the town of Natmauk, the birthplace of revered national hero Aung San, in defiance of a crackdown by security forces, local media reported.

The government’s proposed master plan on power and energy should help Bangladesh phase out fossil-fuel-based and expensive generation system and guide it towards cleaner electricity, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

The Swedish Minister of International Development Cooperatives Per Olsson-Fridh has expressed satisfaction at the use of his country's climate change adaptation support in Bangladesh.

Police have requested candidates of the 41st Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination to come to their respective examination centres in Dhaka by 08:30 am tomorrow.

At least 12 houses were destroyed in a fire today at Hogolbaria village in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, leaving 12 families homeless.

Another patient, who was shifted from Dhaka Medical College Hospital's intensive care unit after a fire broke out yesterday at the coronavirus-dedicated ICU, died this afternoon.

Bangladesh is already self-sufficient in food and medicine production, and now wants to be self-sufficient in vaccine production as well, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque this evening during a visit to the vaccine plant of Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd at Jirabo area of Ashulia in Savar.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said all the government agencies will jointly take a decision on imposing a lockdown.

Two cases were filed in connection with the attack carried out by supporters of Hefajat-e-Islam on Hindu houses in Sunamganj's Noagaon village yesterday morning over a Facebook post.

There will be direct flights between Bangladesh and Maldives as the two South Asian nations see huge scope to boost trade and tourism.

Sara Zaker is a household name in the world of theatre, dramas, fictions and also the silver screen in Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2021 in the capital. She joined the inaugural ceremony at Bangla Academy virtually from her official residence Gono Bhaban in the afternoon.

Traffic movement on various important roads of Dhaka metropolitan area will be controlled and it will be closed for some time due to the movement of foreign VVIPs on the occasion of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of independence tomorrow (Friday).

The Anti-Corruption Commission today detained an official of the Audit office taking bribe from a doctor in Khulna.