As protests by Indian farmers against the new farm laws entered the 24th day today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said reforms brought by his government six months ago have started benefiting farmers.

Rab arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 40,000 pieces of yaba pills from a cattle-carrying truck in Dhaka’s Darussalam area last evening.

India’s total tally for Covid-19 infection has crossed the grim milestone of one crore even as over 95.5 lakh patients have recovered since the first case was reported on January 30, reports our New Delhi correspondent quoting the country’s health ministry data.

Children’s TV show “Sesame Street” has unveiled its first Rohingya Muppets to help thousands of refugee children overcome trauma and tackle the pandemic’s impact in the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh.

The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming continues on its current path, researchers warned on Friday.

Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering Covid-19 death toll of over 307,000 lives lost.

The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project has recorded over 3,000 deaths on migratory routes worldwide so far in 2020.

At least 12 people were killed and eight injured when a bus collided with a train in Joypurhat Sadar upazila today.

A former local leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was died after being shot in Khulna’s Phultala upazila yesterday evening.

Vice President Mike Pence became the highest ranking US official to receive the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the shot is safe. He celebrated the milestone as “a medical miracle” that could eventually contain the raging pandemic.

More than 100 UK MPs have called on the British government to make an intervention supporting The Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as human rights violations against the Rohingyas continue.

The Covid-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout poses great risk to migrants in the Asia-Pacific, a new United Nations report reveals on the International Migrants’ Day being observed today.

President M Abdul Hamid today called upon everyone concerned to carry out all kinds of court proceedings as well as preserve all its documents digitally.

Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it has enrolled about 45,000 participants for the first late-stage trial of its Covid-19 single-dose vaccine candidate and that it expects interim data by late-January.

Getting the Covid-19 vaccine will be on a voluntary basis, Indian Health Ministry said as the country prepares to launch a drive to administer the vaccines possibly by next month.

Speakers at a virtual dialogue today urged foreign investors to stop financing in dirty coal- and LNG- fired power plants and invest in renewable energy instead.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during their video-conference meeting yesterday inaugurated, among other things, the Bangabandhu-Bapu digital exhibition.

Police are questioning four people for their alleged negligence in protecting the sculpture of revolutionary freedom fighter Bagha Jatin.

Four people were killed and one injured after a truck hit a human hauler in Pabna's Bhangura upazila today.

The High Court has ruled that any government official, below the rank of joint secretary, must take permission from the cabinet division and finance ministry along with approval from his or her own ministry for any official visit abroad in order to ensure that public money spent for the trip is not misused.