Coast Guard personnel have recovered six geckos, more popularly known as Takshak, during a drive in Manikkhali village under Barguna’s Patharghata upazila and detained one person in this connection.

Taiwan has completed checks on its first batch of AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccines and the first shots may start being administered from Monday, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs after the Fed predicted a fast economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and said it would maintain its interest rate at close to zero.

Georgia authorities charged a man with the fatal shootings of eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas, and the violence heightened fears among Asian Americans already rattled by a rise in hate crimes directed at them since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

The Biden administration is crafting a plan aimed at resetting US ties with the Palestinians that all but collapsed under former President Donald Trump, according to an internal draft memo.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61.

Robinhood Markets Inc has appointed former Google executive Aparna Chennapragada as its chief product officer, a blog post by the firm showed yesterday.

A loan defaulter from People's Leasing and Financial Service Ltd (PLFSL), a non-banking financial institution, paid repaid Tk 8.30 crore as a due down payment to its liquidator before the High Court on March 15.

Foreign minister Abdul Momen today urged visiting Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to sign the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bangladesh for harnessing trade potentials between the two South Asian nations.

Ten European Union returnees have so far been detected with the new strain of Covid-19 that was first reported in the UK, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today said the independent and democratic Bangladesh was built based on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s love for his people.

Bangabandhu had made tremendous efforts to strengthen bilateral ties after the independence of Bangladesh, said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in a video message today.

The Indian government today said it has not taken any decision on the nationwide roll-out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Police recovered the body of a Nilgai -- the largest antelope in Asia -- from Khochpara village in Atwary upazila of Panchagarh this afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said there was no chance for Bangladesh to look back as it was the time to march forward.

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman devoted his whole life to his country and people, said Chinese President Xi Jinping during a pre-recorded message marking the celebration of Mujib Year and the Golden Jubilee of the Independence of Bangladesh.

Bangabandhu is an icon of democracy and self-determination, and his legacy would endure for many generations to come, said Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih while paying homage to the Father of the Nation at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi-32 today.

Once termed a “basket case”, now “South Asia’s economic bull case” is placed far above many desperately poor African nations it was once compared to, with an estimated 2020 GDP per capita of $1,888.

President Abdul Hamid today said politics in Bangladesh is now on a backward trajectory and some opportunists have made politics a profession.