A foreman died at Tasin Steel Shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early today.

Police opened fire today in the Myanmar city of Mandalay on protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, killing one person, witnesses and media said.

Bangladesh has been elected member of the Council of International Seabed Authority for a four-year term from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) today honoured Kaus Mia as best taxpayer of Mujib Year for his exemplary commitment toward depositing the right amount of tax to the public coffer.

Police yesterday arrested three members of banned militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) including its operations branch head during a raid at Sayedabad in Dhaka.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today visited his constituency Akhaura where journalists asked him whether any changes or reform will be made to the controversial Digital Security Act, to which he replied “you will see in a few days, whatever there is.”

Monday marks 110 years since a designated annual International Women’s Day was first commemorated.

Two people were killed and three others were injured in a road accident when a private car lost control and fell into the Chuna River at Shawkatnagar area at Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira yesterday.

North South University's Business & Management Studies and Computer Science & Information Systems has been ranked in the QS World University Rankings 2021 by Subject for the second year in a row. NSU also continues to be the only private university in Bangladesh to be ranked in the QS Rankings by Subjects.

The remains of a woman who went missing in the devastating 2011 Japan tsunami have been found and identified, police said today, days before the 10th anniversary of the disaster.

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube has removed five channels of Myanmar’s military-run television networks hosted on its platform in the wake of the coup in the Southeast Asian country.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.

Myanmar’s junta lost a tug of war over leadership of its UN mission in New York and the United States unveiled new sanctions targeting military conglomerates after the deaths of dozens of civilians protesting against last month’s coup.

China on Friday set a modest annual economic growth target, at above 6%, and pledged to create more jobs in cities than last year, as the world's second-biggest economy emerged from a year disrupted by the effects of COVID-19.

The state of political rights and civil liberties in Bangladesh has witnessed a decline in the last five years and the country still falls in the status of “partly free”, according to a report by Freedom House.

In the full text of a verdict, the High Court observed that the maximum term of imprisonment against a juvenile offender cannot be more than 10 years.

Excess liquidity in the banking industry that ballooned because of pandemic-induced lower credit demand and an injection of funds under a massive stimulus package fell in January, the first time in eight months.

Shared cultural heritage is the strength of friendship between Bangladesh and India, said Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today after inaugurating the Indian Cultural Centre in the capital’s Gulshan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the problems between neighbouring countries should be resolved through discussions and negotiations.

An application seeking waiver of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s punishment and extending the stay on her sentence was sent to law ministry, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today.