The government has taken on a Tk 438 crore project to cultivate fallow lands across the country, according to Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque.

Sugarcane growers based in six catchment areas have suffered heavy losses this year as the total weight of the crops shrivelled because of a late harvest, bringing down sugar yield.

Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed in a first public address to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the February 1 military coup.

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, crossed a record high of $60,000.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today alleged that the anti-liberation forces spread a video of him receiving the Covid-19 vaccine as part of their propaganda to embarrass the government.

The Digital Security Act has been formulated to stop general people from speaking against injustice and irregularities and to legitimise oppression, said economist Prof Anu Muhammad today.

A move is underway to make the power distribution system in Dhaka city fully automated to better address the complaints of consumers, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said.

The season’s first nor’wester lashed the capital Dhaka and some other parts of the country.

Leaders and activists of left leaning organisations remembered Shaheed Moin Hossain Raju, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, who was gunned down at Dhaka University campus area, where the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture is situated now, on this day in 1992 while protesting terrorism in the name of student politics.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined hundreds of people in Christchurch to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the country’s worst mass murder.

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.

Due to norwester, three flights were waiting to land and four aborted departure today.

A garment worker was burned to death in a fire at his house at Nagarchar in Rajphulbaria of Savar, early today.

Twelve people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8 am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Formerly incarcerated cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore underwent surgery today for the wound in his right ear.

At least one person was killed and 18 others injured in a clash today over a murder case filed four years’ back in Brahmanbaria’s Kosba upazila.

A woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of pepper-spraying an Uber driver in San Francisco who was coughed at and insulted after he demanded a passenger wear a mask, police announced.

A worker was killed as a mosquito coil factory in Bogura Sadar upazila caught fire this morning.

The United States, Australia and Japan will infuse $218 million for manufacture, procurement and last-mile delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in the Indo-Pacific region and decided to work collaboratively to help expand production of safe and effective vaccine at facilities in India.

Dhaka's air quality is still "unhealthy". It is now sixth in the list of cities with the worst air quality.