Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has said the UN will continue to stand with Bangladesh and mobilise international support to collectively address the Rohingya crisis and ask Myanmar to create a congenial environment for Rohingya repatriation.

A female student of Rajshahi University (RU) was found dead at a mess in the city early today.

An account by photojournalist Kajol’s son.

Awami League backed candidates won all the five municipalities in Tangail in yesterday’s election.

The conviction of Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul is a matter of sadness and shame for the country, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

As the covid-19 pandemic unfolded, central banks across the globe responded with a dramatic easing of monetary policy to provide liquidity support for the faltering economic activities.

Britain’s foreign minister today said the EU had reassured him the European Union did not want to disrupt supplies of Covid-19 vaccines to the United Kingdom after the bloc said it planned to control exports.

Russian businessman Arkady Rotenberg said today he owns a huge palace in southern Russia which jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has linked to President Vladimir Putin.

The envoys of Turkey, China and India to Bangladesh have highly praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As news trickles in of AL-backed candidates winning in the municipalities’ mayoral elections, two rebel candidates of Awami League, who ran independently, defied the norm and won in Golapganj and Zakiganj upazilas in Sylhet.

Awami League candidates won in the elections of five municipalities today as vote counting began in the third phase election to 62 municipalities across the country.

Police have arrested an upazila level Awami League leader on charge of occupying a polling centre during Tangail’s Bhuiyanpur municipality election today.

Robinhood Markets Inc’s user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked a frenzied trading rally in companies such as GameStop Corp that was fueled on social media forums.

The daughter-in-law of Noakhali’s Begumganj Upazila Parishad chairman Shahnaz Begum was injured after being shot at their residence this afternoon.

With 2,080 pieces of Yaba stashed in his stomach, Golam Mostafa Mandal landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Cox’s bazar this afternoon.

A temple and seven shops were gutted after a fire broke out around noon at a cotton warehouse on the Pirojpur Press Club Street today, said Abdul Malek, deputy director of Pirojpur Fire Service.

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla today said his company has applied for the start of trials of another Covid-19 vaccine, Covovax, which it hopes to launch by June.

A train generator operator allegedly raped a 21-year-old girl with physical disabilities on a moving train in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar last night.

A total of 1,61,807 students achieved GPA 5, the maximum grade point average, in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent results for 2020, over 3 times more than that of the previous year.

Twelve Bangladeshis, including two children, returned home today from India after serving three years of jail terms each for intrusion.