Myanmar’s United Nations envoy in New York vowed to fight on Saturday after the junta fired him for urging countries to use “any means necessary” to reverse a Feb. 1 coup that ousted the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Writer Mushtaq Ahmed was relieved of interrogation by the investigating agency, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act, as he died at the High Security Jail in Kashimpur on Thursday.

Thailand kicked off its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday, with cabinet ministers, health officials and medical professionals among the first in the queue to receive vaccinations.

At least 40 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists were injured as police charged baton on them when they gathered in front of Jatiya Press Club to protest the death of writer Mushtaq Ahmed in jail custody.

The first phase of Bangladesh’s first metro rail project -- Uttara to Agargaon -- is now visible as the last viaduct of this part has been installed today.

Police will produce cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore before a Dhaka court today in connection with a case filed under Digital Security Act.

The US government on Saturday authorised Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world.

Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the UN human rights office said.

The fifth phase election is progressing in 29 municipalities under 20 districts across the country today.

A young lawyer was attacked inside the building of Shariatpur Bar Association last night soon after the election results of the district bar association was announced.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued directives for procurement of another three crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine as the nationwide first round of vaccination campaign was underway.

The fifth phase elections will be held in 29 municipalities under 20 districts using electronic voting machines (EVMs) on Sunday, February 28, 2021.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on people to eat more pineapples to help farmers, saying Taiwan had been “ambushed” by a ban on the fruit by neighbouring long-time rival China which claims the island as its own.

A total of nine benches have been formed for conducting judicial activities physically at the High Court Division of the Supreme Court from Sunday, February 28, 2021.

At least five people, including three teenagers, were injured as a gas cylinder used for inflating balloons, exploded at Tetulia Bazar area in Panchagarh this afternoon.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said their party considers Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech a part of Liberation War history and they do not want to undermine him.

Gunmen in Nigeria released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school in the northern state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

A Russian trial testing the effectiveness of revaccination with the Sputnik V shot to protect against new mutations of the coronavirus is producing strong results, researchers said.

Mystery shrouds over the death of a university student after falling from the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area.

Bangladesh’s overall food security situation has deteriorated for the second year in a row -- mainly due to poor performance in ensuring dietary diversity, good use of natural resources and implementing climate-smart agriculture.