“just setting up my twttr” - the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken its first, short drive on the surface of the red planet, two weeks after the robot science lab’s picture-perfect touchdown on the floor of a massive crater, mission managers said on Friday.

Covax will distribute 14.4 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to 31 more countries next week, the WHO said Friday (March 5) as it warned people not to waste, through complacency, the hope that vaccines bring.

A woman and her two daughters were injured in an explosion inside their flat in Feni in the early hours of today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named among the top three inspirational women leaders who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership during Covid-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth, Bangladesh High Commission in London said in a statement today.

COP26 President Designate Alok Sharma is expecting to visit Bangladesh as soon as possible in order to witness first-hand the inspiring work Bangladesh was doing to tackle climate change.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday announced that they will set up playgrounds in every ward.

The government is racing against time to achieve the lofty target of inoculating 70 lakh people in the first month of its Covid vaccination campaign.

The online application process for admission to the first-year honours programmes of National University for the 2020-2021 academic sessions will begin from June 8 and will continue till June 22.

The third Dash-8 aircraft purchased from Canada reached Dhaka this afternoon.

Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective against the P1, or Brazilian, variant, a source with knowledge of the study told Reuters on Friday.

Burma Campaign UK has called for all countries to halt training the Myanmar military, which has taken control of the country and is accused of severe violation of human rights.

Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of Covid-19, according to one of the authors of an open letter calling for a new investigation into the pandemic.

India today expressed happiness about Bangladesh’s graduation from the status of Least Developed Countries (LDC) and promised to continue support to the country’s development efforts.

India today said it continued talks with Bangladesh to take back the 81 Rohingyas rescued by its coast guard after finding them adrift in the high seas with no fuel and food.

Seven citizens who had earlier been detained under the Digital Security Act and ICT Act today demanded a judicial probe into the alleged torture of writer Mushtaq Ahmed and cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in custody and the trial of responsible law enforcement members.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced she will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state from Nandigram constituency.

Train movement from Kushtia, Rajshahi, Gopalganj, Faridpur and Goalando was suspended after a head-on collision between a freight train and an engine trolley, adjacent to Kushtia Boro Station this afternoon.

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

The popular Joy Bangla Concert will return in 2022 after it was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, said Bangabandhu’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq in a Facebook post yesterday.