A sanitation worker in All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi today became India’s first person to be administered the first of the two-dose Covid-19 vaccine during the launch of the nationwide vaccination programme.

Detective have arrested six persons on charge of extorting money -- through threats over phone calls, posing as members of a top terror gang.

Four people including an Ansar member were injured in a crude bomb explosion in front of a polling centre during municipality election to Feni’s Dagonbhuiya this morning.

Unidentified miscreants vandalised eight idols at a temple in Sadar upazila of Kurigram early yesterday.

At least two men were killed in an attack over land dispute in Sathiya upazila of Pabna this morning.

South African scientists have discovered chemical compounds that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and even kill the parasite in its infectious stage, which most available drugs do not.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the rollout of the country’s Covid-19 vaccination drive, saying Indian vaccines were cheaper compared to others around the world.

The second phase elections to 60 municipalities ended amid reports of violence, irregularities and boycott of at least two candidates.

The worldwide coronavirus death toll surpassed 2 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure multiple vaccines and detect new Covid-19 variants.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has expressed deep condolence over the deaths caused by the earthquake that struck Sulawesi island of Indonesia in the early hours yesterday.

The global death toll from Covid-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat.

At a time when the public conscience is gripped by fears over women’s security, three sisters from a remote village in Lalmonirhat decided to take up matters in their own hands.

The government plans to roll out Covid-19 vaccines next month without any dry run and antibody test, which, experts say, are two critical aspects of a vaccination programme.

Belgium's King Philippe is considering a visit to Bangladesh to see its impressive socio-economic development as the two countries seek to strengthen trade relations.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government resigned on Friday, accepting responsibility for wrongful accusations of fraud by the tax authorities that drove thousands of families to financial ruin, often on the basis of ethnicity.

India considers Bangladesh as a priority country among its neighbours to receive Covid-19 vaccine, a government official said on Thursday as India is set to launch world’s largest vaccination drive tomorrow.

Pakistani authorities sacked a local police chief and 11 other policemen for failing to protect a Hindu temple that was set on fire and demolished last month by a mob led by hundreds of supporters of a radical Islamist party, police said Friday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged ‘hundi’ trader with USD 12,500, and Rs 20,000 from Benapole Immigration Check Post area today.

As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the one ahead.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will confer the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award on Bangladesh-born scientist M Zahid Hasan.