Detectives claimed to have arrested five alleged muggers in connection with killing cable operator businessman Hamidul Islam near High Court in Dhaka on Saturday night.

The High Court today upheld a lower court order that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty, in a Tk 159 crore money laundering case.

The widely popular song “Shono ekti Mujiborer theke/Lokkho Mujiborer” played by the Bangladesh military band resonated across New Delhi’s Rajpath as the country’s armed forces contingent participated for the first time in India’s 72nd Republic Day parade today. Bangladesh Armed Forces contingent participates in India’s republic day parade.

The US House of Representatives delivered to the Senate on Monday a charge that former President Donald Trump incited insurrection in a speech to supporters before the deadly attack on the Capitol, setting in motion his second impeachment trial.

Ferry services between Paturia and Daulatdia resumed this morning after seven and a half hours of suspension due to dense fog.

The Covid-19 vaccine divide between rich and poor nations is worsening by the day, the World Health Organization warned Monday, insisting the failure to distribute doses fairly could cost the global economy trillions of dollars.

The United Nations warned Monday that the world economy is “on a cliffhanger,” still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic whose impact will be felt for years but still expected to make a modest recovery of 4.7% in 2021 which would barely offset 2020 losses.

28 UK returnees tested positive for Covid-19 and were taken into institutional isolation at a hospital in Sylhet last night.

A woman was killed and a man was injured after being hit by a passenger bus when its driver lost control in Munshiganj’s Gazaria upazila.

As the United Kingdom’s Covid-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the worst public health crisis in a century.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram region has fined Power Development Board (PDB) in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj Tk 5 lakh for filling up two large ponds to facilitate construction of a residential block.

The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa.

US President Joe Biden overturned a controversial ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the US military, a move that fulfills a campaign promise and will be cheered by LGBTQ advocates.

Indigenous people of Tangail’s Madhupur upazila staged demonstration in the upazila today, bringing an allegation that the forest department is attempting to evict them from their own land in the name of recovering forest lands.

Renowned Bangladeshi musicologist and Tagore exponent Sanjida Khatun, and 1971 Liberation War veteran Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir, have been chosen for the Indian government’s prestigious Padma Shri award on the eve of the country’s Republic Day.

President Abdul Hamid today gave his consent to the three bills passed by the Jatiya Sangsad during the ongoing 11th session of parliament.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said global adaptation over climate change is still far from the pace of devastation just for lack of funds and political will.

Mahmudul Hoque Moni, a Dhaka-based photographic artist, runs a unique project ‘1000 Portraits 1000 Stories' to contribute to the lives of underprivileged children in Bangladesh. The project continues to engage people from Bangladesh and abroad to raise funds.

Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

Moderna said on Monday it plans to start clinical trials of an altered booster version of its Covid-19 vaccine aimed at the South African variant after tests showed its authorised vaccine may produce a diminished antibody response.