Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs successfully ended its flagship event Bangladesh Youth Symposium 2021. This time the event was held virtually through the videocall platform Zoom, in association with Northern University on Friday 12th February, 2021.

The first of its kind in Bangladesh, Valor of Bangladesh (VoB), the knowledge sharing social platform, has started its journey. The inauguration ceremony for the launch of VoB was held on Wednesday, 10 February, 2021 at The Royal Park Rooftop in Banani, Dhaka.

Police arrested a youth on charge of stabbing Hefajat-e-Islam’s central leader Jasim Uddin in Dhaka's Lalbagh area on Tuesday.

A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka during BNP’s protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman.

Rab claimed to have arrested 96 individuals on charges of taking drugs, engaging in gambling and anti-social activities on a luxury launch on Buriganga River yesterday.

The government is considering keeping on-the-spot registration provision for senior citizens for Covid-19 vaccination, Secretary to the Health Services Division Md Abdul Mannan said today.

Much more research is needed into the “constellation” of at times debilitating symptoms among people who have recovered from Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Ayman Sadiq is one of the most popular and respected teachers and entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.

British human rights lawyer Karim Khan was elected on Friday as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a politically daunting position whose incumbent was slapped with US sanctions.

France’s highest health authority recommended Friday that people who have had Covid-19 receive only one dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus.

US top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, social distancing and other strategies, and vaccination of teachers, while important, is not a prerequisite for reopening.

US President Joe Biden wants to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects before the end of his term, the White House said Friday, echoing an unfulfilled campaign promise from Barack Obama's administration.

The UN’s top human rights body passed a consensus resolution Friday urging military leaders in Myanmar to immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian government leaders detained after a military coup, while watering down an initial draft text amid pressure led by China and Russia.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has said the government will take action against Al Jazeera if the High Court directs it to this end.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab with tremors and aftershocks in several parts of northwest India.

Around 65 Mro families of three villages in Bandarban’s Lama upazila are living in fear of eviction from their ancestral homes with no source of livelihood after land grabbers illegally occupied their jhum land last month.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the United States must pay if it wants to keep a two-decade-old troop deployment agreement with his country that is central to US strategy in Asia.

India has won plaudits for gifting and selling Covid-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed on the night of March 11 (Thursday) with religious fervor.

In the 50 years since Bangladesh’s independence, those in power have claimed of many developments in the country but they still haven’t been able to ensure a safe and secured society for women, speakers said at an anti-rape rally.