Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dhaka Entrepreneurs, a non-profit international non-governmental organisation, organised its 2021 general assembly (GA) at a city hotel today.

Four persons including two madrasa students, who were arrested on charges of damaging an under construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia, were sent to jail today.

France, Germany and Britain said on Monday they were alarmed by an Iranian announcement that it intended to install additional, advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges and by legislation that could expand its nuclear programme.

Twenty-one years after a group of regional editors sealed an agreement in Bangkok to form a voluntary alliance, Asia News Network (ANN) has taken a major step forward with its formal registration as a legal entity, based in Singapore.

Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the “Love Jihad” law, officials said on Monday.

Thirty-six people have died from Covid-19 and at least 2,198 people were infected in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A case has been filed against 533 people for allegedly carrying out an attack on officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd during a drive to sever illegal gas connections in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today virtually inaugurated the construction work of the metro rail project in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, in a move which is expected to cater to more than six million tourists who visit the place every year.

The High Court today acquitted three people, who were sentenced to death by a trial court concerned in a case filed over abducting and killing a six-year old in Cox’s Bazar in 2013.

The US Embassy in Dhaka has invited Bangladeshi applications for the Community College Initiative (CCI) Programme 2021-2022.

Investigators at the icddr,b said specific doses of the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin significantly reduce the viral load of Covid-19 if administered during the first five days of infection.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence is expected to witness a large number of bilateral activities between Bangladesh and India, taking the historic relations to a new height.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today summoned the then director general of the Directorate of Primary Education Dr Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal and four other government officials for not recruiting a qualified candidate to the post of primary school teacher.

Local administration has seized 20 sacks full of 400kg of wheat seeds allocated for flood-affected farmers in Raumari upazila of Kurigram.

At least six Covid-19 patients died after "criminal negligence" resulted in a delayed supply of oxygen to a hospital in northwest Pakistan, officials said Sunday, as the country battles a second wave of the epidemic.

Education Minister Dipu Moni has tested positive for coronavirus.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today pressed charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore and channelling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to immediately take necessary steps to protect sculptures and murals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country.

Amid threats from anti- sculpture protesters, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today vowed to continue work of the under-construction Bangabandhu sculptures.

A Dhaka court today directed the deputy inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to conduct investigation into the two cases filed against Hefajat-e-Islam Ameer Junayed Babunagari and two others for their "disparaging" comments on sculptures.