Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi wants to improve commercial and cultural relations with Bangladesh.

The World Bank today approved $200 million to help Bangladesh provide support and services to low-income urban youth impacted by Covid-19 and returnee migrant workers in order to improve their earning opportunities.

Setting the tone for his upcoming visit to Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth anniversary describing him as “a champion of human rights and freedom” and “a hero for all Indians”.

Former US President Donald Trump again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me.”

Three patients died after they were shifted from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital‘s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) dedicated for Covid-19 patients during a fire incident this morning.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has reached Dhaka this morning on a two-day visit.

Firefighters doused a blaze after it broke out at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) dedicated for Covid-19 patients in the second floor of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's (DMCH) new building.

A UN delegation is going to Bhasan Char on a three-day visit to see first-hand the housing facility for 100,000 Rohingyas.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his birth anniversary and the National Children's Day-2021, by placing wreaths at the portrait of the great leader.

Eight people, including at least six Asian women, were shot dead at three day spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area, police said, and man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks has been taken into custody.

Two people were killed and one was critically injured in a road accident involving a truck and a private car in Amtali upazila of Barguna.

The Philippines’ coronavirus task force said it will suspend the arrival of foreigners and some returning citizens as the Southeast Asian country battles a renewed surge in Covid-19 cases and increasing infections of new variants.

Iran has started enriching uranium at its underground Natanz plant with a second type of advanced centrifuge, the IR-4, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report reviewed by Reuters, in a further breach of Tehran’s deal with major powers.

Comments by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the AstraZeneca vaccine are “encouraging”, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said.

Thousands of residents fled an industrial suburb of Myanmar’s commercial capital after it was placed under martial law by the ruling junta following bloody anti-coup protests over the weekend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin knew of and likely directed a Russian effort to manipulate the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign to benefit former President Donald Trump with “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” against challenger Joe Biden, U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday.

The wife of a local Awami League leader in Noakhali who suffered a brutal assault allegedly led by rival AL leader and Basurhat Mayor Abdul Quader Mirza has filed an application with the Speedy Trial Tribunal to hear a case against Mirza and 96 others.

Indian state refiners are planning to cut oil imports from Saudi Arabia by about a quarter in May, in an escalating stand-off with Riyadh following OPEC’s decision to ignore calls from New Delhi to help the global economy with higher supply.

Protesters burned tyres and blocked roads in Beirut today as the Lebanese currency crashed past a new milestone.

India today conveyed to Bangladesh that any steps forward on the long-unresolved issue of sharing of Teesta water will be possible only after completion of the assembly elections in West Bengal.