Bangladesh will raise all the major issues, including over water and border, during the meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi -- scheduled to be held on December 17, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said today.

A court in Sylhet today sentenced a man to life term imprisonment in a case filed over a series of bomb blasts in the city’s Kadamtali Bus Terminal on August 17, 2005.

Mobile Court at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today fined Air Asia, a Malaysia based budget airlines, Tk 1 lakh for carrying an identified Covid-19 positive passenger.

The public universities of the country can take their honours and masters’ final year examinations as per the decisions taken by their respective academic councils.

Thirty-two 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 Chinese space capsule bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades started its three-day return to Earth on Sunday.

MP Paul Bristow is taking Bangladeshi chef Saiful Islam’s case to the House of Commons after receiving a negative response from the UK Home Office. Saiful Islam is facing deportation after his application for extension was refused by the Court of Appeal on October 8, 2020.

A Cox’s Bazar court today dismissed a revision petition filed by Liaqat Ali, suspended inspector of Baharchhara Investigation Centre, challenging the legality of the Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case filed by the victim’s sister, Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous.

The High Court today questioned the legality of a lower court order that granted bail to suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid, in connection with a case filed for amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond known sources of income.

Twenty years after submitting charge sheet, a court in Chattogram today sentenced ten persons to death and five persons to life term imprisonment in connection with the murder of Satkania's Sonakania Union Parishad Chairman Amjad Hossain in 1999.

Hefajat-e Islam Secretary General Nur Hossain Kasemi died today at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 74.

Four people were stabbed and one shot as rallies backing President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud led to clashes in major US cities on Saturday.

The government has signed Covid-19 vaccine procurement contract with Serum Institute of India today.

The UN has adopted a proposal for establishing UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize in the field of the Creative Economy.

China reported 24 new coronavirus cases in the mainland on Sunday, up from 13 cases a day earlier, while the authorities were monitoring possible contacts in the domestic tourism hotspot of Hainan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government is taking preparations so that children can return to schools and resume their academic activities.

The High Court today stayed for six months the trial proceedings against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which seeks to give Indian citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, will be implemented in West Bengal soon even if the Mamata Banerjee government in the state opposes it, a senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has said.

The share of Brazilians unwilling to take any Covid-19 vaccine grew to 22 percent this week, from 9 percent in August, and most said they would not accept one made in China, a new poll showed on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro’s comments stoked wider skepticism.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) pressed charges against 15 people -- including former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das -- in the Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case.