Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took off on a plane bound for Russia on Sunday, to return home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.

At least 48 people died and 97 people were injured in a militia attack on the West Darfur city of El Geneina on Saturday, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said, citing a local doctors union.

A woman has reportedly been gang-raped in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali.

A housewife today filed a case saying that she was gang-raped by five of her husband’s friends in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area five days ago.

A Narayanganj court today granted bail to 22 people connected to the mosque management committee of Baitus Salat Jame Mosque in connection with the explosion at the mosque on September 4 last year.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks the High Court order that directed United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh in fifteen days as initial payment to each of the families of four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27 last year.

President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the country has surprised advocates given how the issue has long divided Democrats and Republicans, even within their own parties.

Britain should not engage in free trade with countries that abuse human rights, but proposals that the country’s courts should decide whether genocide has been committed by trade partners is flawed, foreign minister Dominic Raab said.

The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian businessmen under U.S. sanctions for ties to President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report by a Lebanese journalist and London company filings.

President Abdul Hamid is scheduled to deliver his speech in the 11th session of the 11th parliament commencing tomorrow which will also be the first session of the new year.

A Jubo League leader who is an accused in a murder case died in Pirojpur district jail today.

Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan today said they are considering those Rohingyas as Bangladeshis who have been to Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passports.

A Dhaka court today ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 18 bank accounts and seize documents of 40 scheduled immovable properties of former lawmaker from Pirojpur AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two graft cases.

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court in an early morning ambush in the country's capital Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.

India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive hit a bump on the first day due to glitches in an app called Co-Win that is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in the immunisation programme.

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

Researchers of Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) have sought permission for starting clinical trial of Bangavax, developed by Globe Biotech Ltd.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed today expressed his firm conviction to uproot militancy from Bangladesh.

To reduce the impact of coronavirus fallout, the government today approved two new stimulus packages of Tk 2,700 crore to boost the cottage, small and medium enterprises, and to develop the living standards of people at the grassroots level.

The High Court today upheld its ad-interim order of injunction, restraining the authorities concerned of all media from publishing, broadcasting any statement, comment, interview and conversation of anyone accused and convicted of non-bailable and cognisable offences in TV news and talk shows with regard to the cases pending before the court or investigating agency -- till further order.