President Tayyip Erdogan said today that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel, adding that talks at intelligence level continued between the two sides.

Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Navalny and his supporters said.

The prime accused in the murder of 11-year-old Shamnun Islam, in Dhaka’s Mirpur area a week ago, was arrested from outside Dhaka early this morning.

Despite outwardly being a harmless, jolly, overweight bearded man dressed in red what he was really carrying was not a sack, but ideas and traditions with the potential to corrupt our native identity -- this was the view I absorbed from my family and Bangladeshi community living in Australia three decades ago.

Twenty people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Police recovered the body of a mentally challenged woman from Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj early today.

With rich countries snapping up supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, some parts of the world may have to rely on Chinese-developed shots to try to conquer the outbreak. The question: Will they work?

The Bangladesh Bar Council yesterday decided to cancel the written test of the advocateship candidates, held at five centres on December 19, as some of them went berserk at those centres, preventing others from taking the test and burning their answer scripts.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today corrected statements he had made in parliament, apologising for what he said were mistakes regarding a political funding scandal that has also cast a pall over the current premier.

Two policemen of Sitakunda Model Police Station were arrested on charge of mugging Tk 2.80 lakh from a driver, introducing themselves as "members of the Detective Branch" at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday night.

India is likely to conduct a dry run of a nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive on December 28 and 29.

Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj at 11:15am today, informed his son Monorom Polok.

The US government will require all airline passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to test negative for Covid-19 within 72 hours of departure starting Monday amid concerns about a new coronavirus variant that may be more transmissible.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended to take necessary action against the ACI company for supplying substandard life-saving materials and agricultural machinery, especially combined harvester.

Rapid Action Battalion seized snake venom worth Tk 75 crore and arrested six smugglers from Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area yesterday afternoon.

The success of the power sector depends on ensuring access to electricity, cost reduction, demand side management and enhancing use of non-conventional cleaner, renewable energy for power generation, experts told a virtual dialogue yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said members of Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Ansar will be deployed at vacant army camps located in Chattogram Hill Tracts.

There was a lack of transparency and accountability on the government’s part in dealing with recent natural disasters including cyclone Amphan, Transparency International Bangladesh today said.

Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.

MA Hashem, my beloved father, founder chairman of Partex group, succumbed yesterday to Covid-19.