Police have pressed charges against Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad's former convener Hasan Al Mamun but dropped the names of former DUCSU VP Nurul Haque Nur and four others in a case filed with Lalbagh Police Station over the rape of a Dhaka University student.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican bid that had been backed by former President Donald Trump's administration to invalidate the Obamacare healthcare law, ruling that Texas and other challengers had no legal standing to file their lawsuit.

Bangladesh is among the few countries in the world where educational institutions are closed for 15 months now. Despite some efforts to provide lessons virtually or through TV, students who are poor and from remote areas are left deprived of their fundamental right.

A study by the icddr,b revealed that the highly transmissible Delta variant, also known as the Indian variant, of the coronavirus has started sweeping across Dhaka city.

36 illegal structures have been evicted from Kuakata beach area in Patuakhali.

Two teachers of the anthropology department of Chattogram University have withdrawn their applications for promotions after being accused of plagiarising paragraphs from someone else’s Master’s dissertation in a research paper published in an international journal.

China will continue its “vaccine cooperation” with Bangladesh, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said today.

Cathay Pacific is working with Airbus to introduce "reduced crew" long-haul flights with a sole pilot in the cockpit much of the time, industry sources told Reuters.

The lockdown in Rajshahi city that was scheduled to end on Thursday midnight was extended for another week tonight.

The High Court will deliver its verdict on June 21 in a seven-year-old writ petition that sought action against 17 Collective Bargaining Agency (CBA) leaders of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for corruption.

In the wake of growing Covid-19 infections, the authorities have imposed restrictions on movement and activities in Thakurgaon district for seven days starting tomorrow.

Bangladesh has expressed its strong willingness to become ASEAN’s Sectoral Dialogue Partner, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen during a discussion with the ASEAN countries’ heads of missions in Dhaka today.

The second consignment of Covid-19 vaccines from China brings 6 lakh doses, making a total of 11 lakh jabs from that country. Apart from this, there is yet to be any significant progress to get the vaccination programme back on track.

Forty-three people, including Hefajat-e-Islam’s former Secretary General Mamunul Haque, have been sued on charge of misappropriating Tk 20 crore from a madrasa in the capital.

South Korea is trying to increase its future working population by making it easier for children of foreign residents to become citizens, but its plans have run into trouble in the face of rising anti-China sentiment.

A 34-year-old Covid-19 patient who has recovered was diagnosed with “Green Fungus” (Aspergillosis) in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh's Indore city. This is possibly the first case of this type of virus in the country, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Amid a surge in the Covid-19 cases, the government has decided to extend the ongoing countrywide restriction on public movement and transport till July 15.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has criticised Etihad Airways for harassing and torturing two Bangladesh-born women at Abu Dhabi International Airport in June 2011 and ordered the airways to give Tk 1 crore compensation to each of the victims.

Sixty 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).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told Parliament that the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, is expanding and the number of tigers has already increased there.