Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday, President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation programme.

Ferry services on the key Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed nine hours after suspension due to dense fog.

Eight inmates, aged between 14-17, of Jashore Child Development Centre fled from the establishment early today, authorities claimed.

Police charged baton, fired tear gas shells and used water cannon on garment workers, including wounded former workers of Tazreen Fashions, to vacate the sidewalk in front of the Jatiya Press Club early today, workers and labour leaders alleged.

After US drug-maker Pfizer, Serum Institute of India (SII) has approached the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), seeking authorisation for emergency use of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine in the country.

An auto-rickshaw driver died after being trampled by a herd of elephants at Bazalia union of Chattogram’s Satkania upazila yesterday evening.

The Election Commission today cancelled the results of the chairman’s post of Faridpur’s Charbhadrasan upazila parishad by-polls as its probe committee found “irregularities” in the election.

Thousands of demonstrators have marched in the Belarus capital Minsk and elsewhere demanding the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, and prompting police to detain more than 300 people.

A parliamentary body today asked the authorities concerned to identify all persons and organisations who have illegally grabbed rivers across the country and take legal action against them through a consultation group.

Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal, with failure likely to end with trade in chaos, markets tumbling and a huge economic price to pay.

Opposition candidates have made gains in a parliamentary vote in Kuwait in which two thirds of MPs lost their seats and no women were elected, a result which analysts say could hamper government reform efforts to address a severe liquidity crunch.

Twenty-three people died after being trapped in a mine in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua news agency has said, the region’s second such accident in just over two months.

British negotiators have arrived in Brussels for a last-ditch attempt to strike a Brexit trade deal with the European Union and avert a chaotic parting of ways at the end of the year.

The finance division issued a directive asking all ministries, subordinate departments and government agencies to not outsource recruitment of employees in the grade 11-20 through public or private universities.

Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), the apex trade body of the country, launched a technology center called ‘FBCCI Tech C’ that will help to create ‘Impact Tech-Preneur™’ who can build digital ecosystem, solve social problems and experience growth.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) will sit with vice chancellors of all public universities next Sunday to take a decision about the latter’s demand for holding semester exams for final year students.

Some coronavirus positive cases may be asymptomatic while a few may experience mild to moderate, or even severe symptoms. As per the latest studies, about 80% of Covid-19 patients experience mild or no symptoms. This implies that a majority of the positive patients can recover at home under remote medical monitoring and care.

Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people.

The United Arab Emirates was the target of cyber attacks after establishing formal ties with Israel, the Gulf Arab state’s cyber security head said today.

A total of 304 incoming passengers were sent to institutional quarantine in 24 hours -- since Saturday morning -- as they didn’t have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.