Police have arrested a man in a case filed in connection with the rape of a sixteen-year-old in Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, paving the way for countries worldwide to quickly approve its import and distribution.

Eighteen fishermen have been missing for 22 days in the Bay of Bengal after they went fishing with their trawler from Kuakata of Patuakhali on December 9.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people along with 97 bottles of phensidyl and 950 grams of cannabis from Sadar upazila of Feni last night.

The US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said today as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike.

Student Seif Bedour wanted to support his friend, a witness in a high-profile rape case, by accompanying her to a Cairo police station when she was brought in by officers on August 28 after offering to testify on behalf of the victim, his sister says.

Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in the world.

The law ministry has planned to clear at least six lakh cases from the existing 38 lakh pending cases in the courts across the country in 2021.

The measurement of water level at different points of Padma River is going to kick off tomorrow (Saturday), jointly by Bangladesh and India under the Ganga Water-sharing Treaty-1996, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

On a scrap of land surrounded by flooding in South Sudan, families drink and bathe from the waters that swept away latrines and continue to rise.

Seventeen 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).

At least three people were killed and four were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pick-up van on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway this morning.

Taiwan is ready to have “meaningful” talks with China as equals as long as they are willing to put aside confrontation, President Tsai Ing-wen said today, offering another olive branch to Beijing in her New Year’s speech.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was shot dead in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early today.

Lottery for admissions to 683 government schools across the country from class 1 to 9 will take place on January 11.

President Donald Trump in a New Year’s Eve message reflected on his accomplishments in office, calling them “historic victories,” while his successor, President-elect Joe Biden, struck an upbeat tone in looking ahead to 2021.

This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with many bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget.

Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a Covid-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government’s target to vaccinate 20 million people this month.

Despite all the economic uncertainty amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 2020 saw growing investor confidence in the country’s stock market, which rose by more than 20 per cent this past year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three Jamuna Bank officials in Bogura and sent them to jail through a court in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 15.86 crore by producing fake documents.