Bangladesh wants to move fast in a coordinated way to explore opportunities in “contract farming”, especially taking advantage of farming in the Middle East and greater African landscape, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today.

An ultra royalist group in Thailand launched a new political party today to defend King Maha Vajiralongkorn, amid unprecedented calls for reform of the monarchy by a youth-led protest movement.

US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, touted his legacy and wished luck to the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but without acknowledging his successor by name.

The High Court today directed Aslam Shikder, a former programme producer of private TV channel ATN Bangla, to surrender before the Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 of Dhaka in a case filed for raping a dance artist in 2018.

Bangladesh will receive a total of 35 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine -- 20 lakh as gift from the Indian government and 15 lakh through a private company -- initially, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

An 11-year-old boy was killed and his father was injured when a log-laden three-wheeler, locally known as “tom tom” overturned in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila today.

A total of 43.92 lakh students have taken part in online education in the country from March to September last year, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

Eight people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A total of 89 BNP leaders and activists of Chandpur secured anticipatory bail from the High Court today in a criminal case filed on charge of preventing police from discharging duties and injuring them during a clash.

The Maldives and Bhutan today became the first two South Asian countries to receive consignments of Covid-19 vaccines from India under a grant assistance, reinforcing New Delhi’s initiative for all its neighbours which Prime Minister Narendra Modi describes as “vaccine maitri” to cope with the debilitating pandemic.

Experts today suggested the labour law needs amendment to improve human rights and workplace safety for obtaining Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) plus status in the European Union (EU) after Bangladesh’s graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status to a developing nation in 2024.

Saying that the employment situation in different countries, especially in the oil dependent Middle East, might not remain the same due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government is working to explore and send workers to alternative labour markets.

Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) have detained five Rohingya men with firearms in their possession from a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf upazila early today.

Vegetable traders -- Apan Mia and Nazrul Islam -- were waiting near Dhaka airport area on the night of December 28, 2020 for a vehicle to go to Karwan Bazar when a pick-up van stopped in front of them. They boarded the vehicle.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' transition team announced that their first-day agenda will include the signing of executive orders, reports CNN.

United Nations agencies are warning that more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region are going hungry as the coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food prices higher.

The Jatiya Sangsad today reconstituted six parliamentary standing committees on different ministries.

The High Court today summoned Superintendent of Police of Kushtia SM Tanvir Arafath and sought his explanation over the allegation that he misbehaved with Judicial Magistrate Mohsin Hasan during Bheramara municipality election on January 16.

US President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family.

Covid-19 vaccine will be provided to all Bangladeshi citizens -- aged above 18 -- for free, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.