Jute mill workers today laid siege to Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) regional office in Khulna, demanding reopening of the jute mills and arrears of irregular staffers.

Taiwan’s central bank said today it had banned Deutsche Bank from trading Taiwan dollar deliverable and non-deliverable forwards and suspended it for two years from trading forex derivatives as part of a crackdown on speculation.

A strong earthquake with 6.3 magnitude struck the southern province of Davao del Sur in the Philippines on Sunday, with damage and aftershocks expected, the country’s seismology agency said.

Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told Reuters.

Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine.

Thousands of people marched for a second day in Myanmar’s biggest city on Sunday to protest against the military junta’s coup and detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week.

Covid-19 vaccination has begun across the country this morning.

Robbers took away gold ornaments and cash from a jewellery shop at Rapa Plaza in Dhaka's Dhanmondi area last night.

India is developing seven more Covid-19 vaccines and also working on further vaccine development to inoculate every citizen of the country, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said yesterday.

Many Palestinians see a ruling by the International Criminal Court that it has jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories as a belated chance of justice for victims of Israeli attacks.

Iran’s foreign minister urged Washington to act fast to return to the nuclear accord, pointing out that legislation passed by parliament forces the government to harden its nuclear stance if US sanctions are not eased by Febuary 21.

Unidentified criminals hacked an adolescent boy to death in broad daylight at Bank Colony area in Savar today.

Police today arrested three persons from Chattogram’s Saltgola area for allegedly gang-raping a 30-year-old garment worker at knifepoint in the city’s Customs area last night.

Police have detained three Indian citizens from Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram during the test match of Bangladesh VS West Indies.

A day after one faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded a ban on the transmission of Qatar-based Al Jazeera television channel in Bangladesh, another faction of the organisation issued a statement expressing their shock at the demand.

Indonesia has approved Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine for use in the elderly, a letter from the food and drug agency shows, potentially changing the country’s strategy which has prioritised its working population first.

A man today allegedly raped a four-and-a-half year old at a village under Chaugachha upazila in Jashore.

The Anti-Corruption Commission today pressed charges against GK Shamim, an expelled Jubo League leader and also a top contractor of government projects, and his mother Ayesha Akhter on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 297 crore.

As the dawn broke on August 15, 1975, her phone rang ominously when she and her sister were at the home of a diplomat in Belgium, oceans away from her homeland.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh is working to sue Al Jazeera for using inaccurate information in its report “All the Prime Minister’s Men”.