Figures have shown 903 minors, including 264 children aged between 12 and 14, stood trial for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over a six-year period, reports Al Arabiya.

Killing of Bangladeshis by Indian Border Security Force (BSF), smuggling of drugs and illegal arms into the country from India, illegal trespassing by Indian nationals including BSF members are among key issues to be discussed in the upcoming director general level conference between border forces of the two countries.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says process is on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.

A case has been filed against Nurul Haque Nur, former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu), with a Brahmanbaria court for making “derogatory remarks” on the government and several government institutions during a Facebook live session.

Thailand plans to test more than 10,000 people after a record daily surge in coronavirus cases to over 500, most of which were among migrant workers linked to a shrimp market near the capital, an official said on Sunday.

A car bombing in Kabul targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed at least nine people, officials said.

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

Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has said the allegations of corruption and other misconducts brought against the Election Commission by 42 distinguished citizens are “baseless.”

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained two hundi traders with USD 5,00,000 from Sharsha upazila in Jashore today.

An Austrian of Afghan descent whose genetic material was allegedly found on the weapon that a jihadist used to kill four people in Vienna last month has been arrested, prosecutors said today.

When Ayub Ali, 55, a COVID patient, thought of returning to work after getting discharged from hospital, he realized that he could not walk even small distances without his heart rate increasing. He had to be readmitted to hospital. Ayub has a family history of heart disease, but did not have a pre-existing condition. He had borderline diabetes and hypertension.

A Dhaka court today sentenced two persons, including the mother, to death for killing six-year-old Khandaker Samiul Azim Wafi in June 2010.

The trust in charge of building a mosque in Ayodhya, India after last year's Supreme Court verdict, which also paved the way for a Ram temple at the town in Uttar Pradesh, has released the first architectural plan for the project, according to a report published by NDTV.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said the economic situation of the country is good now as the coronavirus situation is under control.

The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was in close contact with UK officials over a new Covid-19 virus variant.

A policeman died as he lost control over his motorbike in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila last night.

Twenty-two accused of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad murder case have filed a petition with the High Court for transferring the case from the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka, apprehending that they “will not get justice” from the tribunal.

US President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate and energy team on Saturday, a history-making group that will seek to advance an ambitious climate agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies.

Moderna Inc and partners have begun distributing its Covid-19 vaccine with trucks expected to start rolling out to more than 3,700 US locations on Sunday, US Army General Gustave Perna said on a press call today.

Nearly half of the listed state-run companies have been incurring losses for many years due to a lack of competitiveness, in turn affecting stock investors.