Miscreants felled nearly 800 mango trees on 20 bighas of land in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore last night.

Flight operations were disrupted at Chattogram’s Shah Amanat International Airport this morning due to heavy fog.

Criminals have vandalised three idols of Hindu Goddess Kali and looted ornaments from a temple Sujanagar upazila of Pabna.

British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson and Turkish Ambassador Mustafa Osman Turan today highly appreciated the artists for capturing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s life and achievements.

Iran on Saturday executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, authorities said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances.

A new committee of the 35th BCS batch Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) was formed yesterday, said a press release.

Police recovered the body of a rickshaw garage owner in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur this morning.

The US Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a bid by Texas to overturn the results of the presidential election, which Republican Donald Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden, in a fresh setback for the president.

The next Amar Ekushey Book Fair will be organised virtually to prevent the transmission of coronavirus as the country prepares to tackle a possible second wave of Covid-19.

The longest international border in the world, between Canada and the United States, will remain closed until January 21 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday.

CodersTrust Bangladesh will train hundreds of thousands of underprivileged and disadvantaged youth under a new collaboration with Innovation Design & Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA) of ICT Division of the Ministry of Information Technology.

As the Liberation War marks its 50th year, the number of people who lived through those are being increasingly outnumbered by those born later. In such a time, it is important to establish practises that remind later generations of the spirit of the war.

To accelerate concrete policy response and promote zero tolerance to gender-based violence across all spheres of society, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its partners: Department of Women Affairs, ActionAid Bangladesh, Ain o Salish Kendra, and CARE Bangladesh with support from the Canadian Embassy and Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands have observed the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign through organising an online live event recently titled ‘Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence: Everyone has a Role to Play’.

The seventh edition of Digital Summit took place virtually on December 11 and 12 consecutively. The summit was an initiative of Bangladesh Brand Forum which was presented by Meghna Group of Industries, powered by httpool and in association with Evaly and The Daily Star.

Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house on Friday passed a bill that would legalise elective abortions to the 14th week of pregnancy, a proposal from President Alberto Fernández in response to long-sought demands from women’s rights activists in the homeland of Pope Francis.

A woman was killed and her relative was injured after a train hit them in Sirajganj’s Sadar upazila this noon.

Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi said today that their potential Covid-19 vaccine won’t be ready until late next year because they need to improve the shot’s effectiveness in older people.

Distribution of forms for admission to government secondary schools across the country will start from December 15.

Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has fined Maldivian Airlines Tk 2,38,000 for carrying passengers to Bangladesh without Covid-19 negative certificates.

A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.