Pavel Zelensky, a member of the Anti-Corruption Foundation team of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was jailed by a Moscow court today until Feb. 28 on charges of inciting extremism on the internet, according to a court statement.

Democratic President-elect Joe Biden today nominated US foreign policy veteran Wendy Sherman, a key negotiator of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, to be the No. 2 official at the State Department.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has formed a new clean and sustainable ocean partnership to support initiatives in Asia and the Pacific to help meet the SDGs and the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use in Pakistan, the health minister said today, making it the first coronavirus vaccine to get the green light for use in the South Asian country.

Bangladesh will get Covid-19 vaccine urgently from India as it rolled out world’s biggest vaccination drive to combat the pandemic, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami has said.

Last year, 14-year-old Lakingme Chakma of Teknaf was abducted, converted, married to one of her abductors, before eventually being murdered.

Thanks to a businessman in Tangail, a Harijan woman with mental health condition has gone back to her family in Dinajpur, eleven years after going missing.

Abdul Quader Mirza, Awami League backed candidate and also younger brother of Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, has been elected as the mayor of Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality election.

A polling agent of Awami League mayoral candidate was sentenced to one year imprisonment for violating the electoral code of conduct in Bogura’s Sariakandi municipality election today.

A councillor candidate supposedly had food cooked for at least 2,500 people while voting was underway in Kushtia municipality today.

Myanmar police scuffled on Saturday with dozens of followers of Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu at a demonstration calling for him to be put on trial more than two months after he handed himself in to face sedition charges.

A meeting between two Dhaka city corporations next week will finalise a drainage management action plan to reduce water-logging in the capital, said Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mohammad Tajul Islam today.

Referring to instances of anomalies in today's municipality elections, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar today said the polls cannot be called "participatory".

An operative of outlawed Nakshal Bahini was found dead at a village in Faridpur upazila of Pabna today.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has banned carrying all kinds of weapons, explosives, processions and demonstrations from midnight tomorrow to ensure holding of the Jatiya Sangsad session in a smooth and peaceful manner.

At least seven persons were burnt in a fire at an automobile workshop in Dhaka’s Tejgaon-Gulshan Link Road area this afternoon.

As India today began vaccinating its people against coronavirus, those receiving Bharat Biotech's Covaxin were asked to sign consent forms which held out the assurance of compensation and treatment if any adverse effect was noticed linked to the jab.

Twenty-one 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).

A man was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for "vote fraud" during Sherpur municipality polls in Bogura today.

A college teacher was killed after a speeding trolley crashed into his motorcycle in Baufal upazila of Patuakhali this morning.