The head of the Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that his agency will move to quickly authorize the second COVID-19 vaccine to fight the pandemic, hours after the shot won the key endorsement of a government advisory panel.

Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the US over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show.

Twenty-five 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).

Police today arrested seven people on charges of gang-raping a woman in Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila.

With Dhaka University deciding to hold final-year exams for honours and master's programmes from December 26 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the clamour for reopening the dormitories has been growing in the wake of the university authorities ruling out such a move.

The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist today, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

The ongoing closure of all educational institutions in the country have been extended again, this time till January 16, 2021. However, Qawmi Madrasa will be exempt from this directive.

Miscreants in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia have vandalised the sculpture of revolutionary freedom fighter against British rule in India, Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha Jatin.

Migrant workers have sent over $3 billion in remittance in first five months of the current fiscal year than what they had sent at the same time in last FY, Expatriates' Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said today.

All five babies born to women with Covid-19 infection during a study in Singapore have had antibodies against the virus, although the researchers said it is not yet clear what level of protection this may offer.

Google faced its third major lawsuit in two months on Thursday as 38 US states and territories accused the $1 trillion company of abusing its market power to try to make its search engine as dominant inside cars, TVs and speakers as it is in phones.

More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday.

More than 42 per cent garment workers did not benefit from the stimulus package despite being one of the poorest segments of the population and hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey.

A mobile court at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fined Etihad Airways Tk two lakh for carrying an identified Covid-19 positive passenger.

The government has appointed new deputy commissioners (DCs) to 11 districts, including Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar.

Gustavo Delgado walks every day from his home in La Boca, a hard-scrabble neighborhood of Buenos Aires, to a nearby community pantry to find the only food that he and his family are sure to be able to eat that day.

Six people, including three engineers, have been sued for supplying low quality elevators to the building of the Dhaka Bar Association (DBA).

Followers of late Shah Ahmad Shafi and former leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam alleged that Hefajat’s present Amir Junayed Babungari was responsible for the 2013 incident at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka.

The history of human beings is one driven by collective interest, not by personal interest. Economists made us believe that we are driven only by personal interest, and act accordingly through profit maximisation. It is time to restore our core identity by making businesses serve society’s needs first and foremost; profit cannot come at the expense of human well-being, and life.

India today said it has offered Bangladesh the facility of using Indian sea ports for export to third countries.