US President Donald Trump will not attend the inauguration of his successor, Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, later this month, he said in a tweet on Friday, hours after promising a peaceful transition of power.

Bangladesh Awami League came up with an initiative to speed up youth development by providing career guidelines as many youths feel hopeless about their careers due to a lack of proper guidelines despite their potential.

Police have arrested four people in connection with the rape of a woman in Dhaka’s Savar.

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan reported its first Covid-19 death some 10 months after initially detecting the virus and managing to keep the disease under control by largely sealing off the tourism-dependent country.

India today said it sees international cooperation in the fight against Covid-19 particularly with its neighbours as “its duty.”

A female migrant worker returned home from Saudi Arabia in the early hours today in a “psychologically unstable state” after being allegedly tortured by her employer in the Gulf country, Brac said today.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed said that a campaign is going on to make the police force free of corruption.

At least 5,431 people were killed and 7,379 people injured in 4,735 road accidents across the country in the last year, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said today.

Police arrested a 22-year-old in connection with the rape of a ten-year-old girl in Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila yesterday evening.

Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, the lone accused arrested in connection with a case filed over the rape and murder of an English medium school student, today gave his confessional statement to a Dhaka magistrate.

Interpol today issued a red notice against Proshanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, at the request of National Central Bureau (NCB) of Bangladesh Police.

Police will seek a 10-day remand for Fardin Iftekhar Dihan in connection with the case filed over the murder of a 17-year-old after rape at a flat in Dhaka's Kalabagan area yesterday.

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location today, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and the United States.

Sixteen 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).

Police recovered the body of a teenage boy from a pond near his house in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj this morning.

The Supreme Court administration has issued a notification directing the lower court judges across the country to discharge their judicial functions for the whole working hours of court so that their office time is not misused.

Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the US Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police turned them down both times, according to senior defense officials and two people familiar with the matter.

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in the UK and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US drugmaker.

US President Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday with a video acknowledging that Joe Biden would be the next US president as other social media services including Facebook Inc blocked his accounts over concerns that his messages might spark further violent protests.

At least two elderly women were killed and two others injured in a road accident at Parkola area of Bogura-Nagarbari highway in Sirajgaj’s Shahzadpur upazila yesterday night.