In a significant decision, India today gave the green signal to the export of its surface-to-air missile Akash in the first initiative for export of big-ticket defence platforms.

At least five people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport, shortly after a plane carrying a newly formed government for Yemen arrived from Saudi Arabia.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four men in Gazipur city earlier today, while they were about to commit a robbery.

Argentina’s Senate has voted to legalise abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women’s rights campaigners achieved over the visceral objection of the Catholic Church.

The country’s foreign exchange reserves today hit a new record of $43.17 billion thanks to the upward trend of remittance and lower import payments, Bangladesh Bank data showed.

The 11th parliament will go into its 11th session on January 18 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two journalists of a private TV news channel were allegedly beaten up by miscreants while they were collecting information on a report covering the irregularities in a state-run rehabilitation project in Bogura Sadar upazila.

Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious conversion of brides, warning in an open letter that it risked fuelling communal tensions.

A parliamentary body today recommended to temporarily suspend air communications with the UK to prevent spread of a new strain of Covid-19.

Four public engineering universities in principle decided to form a cluster to hold uniform admission test but difference of opinion surfaced over forming admission committee and on exam centre.

The country's stock index has touched 5,400 points at the end of trading in the year 2020 after around 18 months.

Twenty-two people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation is going to organise the 2nd essay competition for the purpose of encouraging research, writing and thinking at all levels of education, according to a press release.

Nitol Electronics is all set to introduce the world-famous and widely popular electronics brand Voltas (A TATA Product) in Bangladesh. An extremely well-known name in the world of electronics, Voltas (A TATA Product) manufactures and distributes almost all sorts of electronic products but is most revered as an air conditioner brand, according to a press release. Voltas particularly occupies a huge chunk of market share in the South-East Asia region. It is a subsidiary of TATA, the globally renowned company.

Department of Environment (DoE), Chattogram region, has fined Toma Construction and Company Limited for razing almost 22 million cubic feet of hills from reserve forest area at Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to stop operations of mobile phone apps -- Bigo Live, Tiktok video and Likee -- in order to “protect youths from social degradation”.

A Dhaka court today directed the deputy inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the case filed against Dhaka South City Corporation’s former mayor Sayeed Khokon and six others over embezzlement of Tk 34.89 crore.

The High Court today issued an injunction restraining electronic, print and social media, including Facebook and YouTube, from broadcasting and publishing statements, interviews and conversations of all fugitive convicts and under trial accused, including Proshanta Kumar Halder, till further order.

Mentioning that no security threat has emerged in the country centring New Year celebration tomorrow (December 31) night, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said that security forces are ready to face any situation that may arise.

The parliamentary watchdog on health and family welfare ministry that remained invisible for the last nine months, is finally going to hold a meeting this afternoon.