A woman died after falling from the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area this morning.

A Dhaka court today granted ad-interim bail to 21 former officials of AB Bank Ltd in three cases filed over laundering Tk 236 crore through offshore banking to UAE, USA and Singapore.

Israel on Tuesday was on course for a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main governing partner, Benny Gantz, failed to resolve a dispute over the budget.

China will take countermeasures against those responsible for hurting the Chinese side, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, in response to additional US visa bans on Chinese officials.

As several countries have cancelled flights with the UK in the wake of the spread of a new strain of coronavirus, Bangladesh will also take measures on suspending air communication with the country considering the latest situation, Senior Secretary of Civil Aviation Ministry M Mohibul Haque said today.

New political party Gono Adhikar Parishad will debut soon officially, said former Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur this afternoon.

A four-day Director General (DG)-level Border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has begun in Guwahati, the capital city of Indian State Assam.

Seventeen 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).

A man was killed as a freight train hit a truck near Phulbari station in Dinajpur early today.

The High Court today refused to grant bail to former chairman of Teknaf upazila, Zafar Ahmed, in a corruption case involving Tk 4.9 crore.

The High Court today directed lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul's wife Selina Islam MP and their daughter Wafa Islam to surrender to the lower court concerned by December 28 -- in connection with a corruption case involving Tk 148.41 crore.

Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

Senior Indian scientists have said the Covid-19 mutations can be addressed by the vaccines which are being developed across the world and are unlikely to affect India’s vaccine strategy.

A yaba trader has been killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar last night, Rab said today.

Road communication of Sylhet division with the rest of the country remains suspended since this morning following a 72-hour transport strike.

US President-elect Joe Biden received his first injected dose of the Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Monday in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year.

The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain with a higher transmission rate is not yet out of control and can be contained using existing measures, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Singapore received its first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, according to its flag carrier, ahead of a rollout in the city-state that health officials have said could be as soon as two-three weeks away.

BioNTech Chief Executive Ugur Sahin has said he is confident a Covid-19 vaccine co-developed by his company would be effective against a variant of the virus that has emerged in Britain.

A new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Britain carries mutations that could mean children are as susceptible to becoming infected with it as adults - unlike previous strains, scientists have said.