The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today granted bail to BNP leader and former state minister for Civil Aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin in a corruption case in which he was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged US President Donald Trump not to be “trapped” by an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on US forces in Iraq.

More than 800,000 people in Russia have been inoculated so far against the new coronavirus and more than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been dispatched, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.

Two schoolgirls lost their way back home in the capital’s Badda from an outing on the night of February 8 last year. Wandering on the road for a few hours, they came across one Emon Hossain.

It was not the family reunion that she had hoped for.

In a proposal regarding the Rohingya issue and other human rights situation in Myanmar placed before the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, China and Russia yet again took stance in favour of Myanmar while India abstained from voting.

Tokyo's governor on Saturday asked Japan's central government to declare a new state of emergency as the country battles a third wave of the coronavirus, with record numbers of new cases.

Experts at India’s drug regulator have recommended emergency-use approval for the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine and another developed locally by Bharat Biotech and a state-run research body, the government said.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said Bangladesh will be able to procure the Covid-19 vaccine at a lower cost compared to many other countries due to the government’s prompt decision to this end.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the smart cards for driving licences will be issued in phases from February.

Britain will allow people to be given shots of different COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses.

BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed has been hospitalised as he fell ill due to low level of haemoglobin.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam today said about 30 lakh job opportunities will be created at Mirsarai Economic Zone.

Police recovered body of an unidentified person from a bamboo grove in Savar today.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said evidence that the coronavirus emerged in multiple locations around the world is growing, although China was the first country to report the pathogen.

A man was sent to jail today, a day after his detention, for his alleged involvement in the partial damaging of a mural of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Thakurgaon's Pirganj upazila.

Twenty-three 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 UN children’s Fund (Unicef) have said an estimated 371,504 babies were expected to be born around the world on the first day of 2021.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly suffered a mild heart attack and was admitted to the ICU of Woodlands Hospital in south Kolkata today.

Police have recovered the decomposed body of a man from Ashuganj Fertilizer and Chemical Company Ltd Colony in Brahmanbaria.