A Florida man on Wednesday became the second person so far to plead guilty for his role in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, after he entered the Senate chamber clad in a Trump T-shirt and waving a red flag that said "Trump 2020." In a virtual hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, Paul Allard Hodgkins pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing an official proceeding.

The liberal opposition mayor of Budapest announced on Wednesday he would rename streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate alleged human rights abuses by Beijing.

Britain is in talks with AstraZeneca for additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccine that will have been modified to better target the Beta coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa, health minister Matt Hancock said on Wednesday.

The border districts of Bangladesh have adequate oxygen in their stock to deal with Covid-19 patients, DGHS spokesperson Dr Nazmul Islam said today.

Police's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit say they have arrested two active members of the banned militant group Ansar al-Islam.

​Despite the India-Bangladesh border being closed, 8 border districts of Bangladesh are experiencing a steep rise in Covid-19 cases.

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) today passed a virtual examinations policy for holding final examinations of different academic sessions including masters.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today said that no Hefajat-e-Islam leaders or supporters will be arrested in the future without any specific allegations against them.

The African Union has suspended Mali's membership in response to last week's military coup and threatened sanctions if a civilian-led government is not restored, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

In line with Summit’s commitment to continue transforming the power sector in Bangladesh by adopting advanced technology solutions, the company has successfully brought GE 9HA.01 heavy-duty gas turbine at its upcoming Summit Meghnaghat II power plant located in Meghnaghat, near Dhaka.

Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at one former school last week shocked the country.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday decided to vaccinate university students as soon as possible so that their dormitories could be reopened.

The local administration yesterday extended the ongoing lockdown in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila as well as the five Rohingya camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf in an effort to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission.

Air Vice Marshal Sheikh Abdul Hannan has been promoted to the post of Air Marshal for Bangladesh Air Force.

Pirojpur’s former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin have sought High Court directives to scrap a lower court order that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze their bank accounts and seize documents of properties in connection with two corruption cases.

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) today moved the Supreme Court against the Indian government’s notification inviting non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan residing in 13 districts of five states to apply for Indian citizenship.

A-seven-year-old was raped in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah and to determine whether she was raped, a union parishad chairman conducted an inappropriate “rape test” on the victim, the child’s mother alleged.

The incumbent treasurer of Jahangirnagar University Professor Sheikh Md Monzurul Huq has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the university.

Britain recorded no new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Tuesday.

Dr Kazi Sabira Rahman, who was found dead at her Kalabagan residence yesterday, was stabbed at least nine times.