Migrants earn nearly 13 percent less on average than native workers in high-income countries, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.

Bangladesh and Canada have launched a “Year of Action” on nutrition, which will include a series of commitment-making moments.

Singapore will open a new segregated travel lane for a limited number of business, official and high economic value travellers from all countries, the government said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to revive its key travel and hospitality sectors.

US President-elect Joe Biden delivered a forceful rebuke on Monday to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of his victory, hours after winning the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines the US presidency.

A delegation of Qawmi madrasa-based alems (Islamic clerics) and leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam held a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal regarding the ongoing sculpture issue.

Over 1,000 cases of a new coronavirus variant have been identified in the past few days in England, predominantly in the south of the country where it could be connected to a surge in cases, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

From now on, airlines carrying passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates will have to face flight suspension of different terms, according to the directives of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

On national television, a domestic cricketer had to flinch twice because his captain, a national superstar, threatened to hit him with the ball. Twice in the space of a few minutes. Not quite threatened, but the captain instinctively wound up to chuck the hard cricket ball at the hapless junior cricketer at point-blank range.

An intensive care unit nurse has become the first person in New York state to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the US effort to control the deadly virus.

A housewife was gang-raped allegedly by four people in her house in Ramgati upazila’s Laximpur early today.

Bangladesh-based renewable energy start-up SOLshare has been awarded a $120,000 cash prize along with a $364,000 fund for investment by EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy engine, to support expansion of SOLshare’s pioneering peer-to-peer solar trading platform.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) sued managing director and production manager of Bombay Sweets & Company Ltd yesterday on the allegation of obstructing a DSCC official from discharging his duties at the company's factory.

Supply of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company will be suspended in some areas of Dhaka for two hours from 2:00pm tomorrow, due to gas pipeline work in Nurjahan Road Residential area of Mohammadpur.

The Assam government has approved a proposal to close down all government-run madrasas and Sanskrit “tol” (schools).

The High Court today rejected a bail petition of seven accused including four journalists from Chattogram in connection with a corruption case and asked them to surrender before the trial court in Chattogram by December 24.

The High Court has acquitted all five persons, who were sentenced to death by a lower court in Netrokona in a case filed for abduction and gang rape of a teenage girl in 2002, as the allegations brought against them were not proven beyond reasonable doubt.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) elections, which were postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, will be held on January 27, the Election Commission (EC) said today.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to shut down illegal brick kilns in Chattogram in a week to curb pollution in the area.

Two workers died in two separate incidents at two shipbreaking yards in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today.

Google and several of its services, including Gmail and YouTube, among others, have been restored after those were down for thousands of users worldwide.