A delegation of Citizens’ Platform (Nagorik Samaj) today demanded a stop to the conspiracy to evict Khasia and Garo communities from their land in Moulvibazar in the name of expanding tea garden.

A man in a crowd of onlookers slapped French President Emmanuel Macron in the face when he was on a walkabout in southern France on Tuesday, video showed.

Bangladesh will push for vaccine supply for the country and other developing countries and will discuss the issue of Rohingya repatriation during the upcoming UN meeting on LDC scheduled for June 15.

Criminal gangs divulged plans for moving drug shipments and carrying out killings on a messaging app secretly run by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday, as they unveiled a global sting operation they said dealt an “unprecedented blow” to organized crime in countries around the world.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said they will fine four times more than the usual if mosquito larvae is found in government colonies and at under-construction structures.

The United Nations said on Tuesday an estimated 100,000 people had been displaced in Myanmar's Kayah State by recent violence, including "indiscriminate attacks by security forces" against civilian areas.

Multiple news and commerce websites are reportedly down in a massive outage early Tuesday. Affected websites include The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and Amazon. Users accessing these sites are being redirected to an error page that reads “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”

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

The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began.

Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn’t been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease.

Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore was released on bail on March 4, 2021 after 10 months of imprisonment. After release, he said that he was brutally tortured in custody. A medical board, formed to verify his claim, has recently provided a report to the court about its findings.

Admission process for first year honours and professional courses of the academic session 2020-2021 in different colleges under National University (NU) has been postponed.

The supply of gas will remain suspended for 12 hours from (9 am to 9 pm) in some areas of the city tomorrow.

A huge amount of chemicals worth around Tk 50 lakh which was imported from India were gutted in a fire at Benapole land port in Jashore this evening.

The leaders of the new committee of Hefajat-e Islam today demanded immediate release of all the arrested “innocent” leaders of Hefajat and opening of Qawmi madrasas.

At least 18 workers were killed and five others went missing after a major fire swept through a factory firm in Pune district of western Indian state of Maharashtra today, officials said, according to our New Delhi correspondent.

After a two-month gap due to Covid-19 restrictions and domestic issues in Lebanon, undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers there have started returning home.

Three teenagers suffered injuries during a clash among juveniles at Jashore Child Development Center this afternoon.

The government will look into the overcharging for treatment of Covid-19 patients at private hospitals, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

A Dhaka court today granted bail to two people including Haji Musa Mansion’s owner in a case filed over the devastating fire that killed six people in old Dhaka's Armanitola in April this year.