Ferry services on the key Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Banglabazar routes remain suspended since this morning due to dense fog.

Pfizer India has become the first pharmaceutical company to seek permission from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency use of its Covid-19 vaccine in the country, after its parent company secured the clearance for the same in the UK and Bahrain.

Ivory Coast will lift a suspension imposed this week on cocoa sustainability schemes run by Hershey after the US-based chocolate maker committed to paying a premium aimed at combating poverty among farmers.

Scores of hooded anarchists have launched projectiles at riot police, smashed up shop fronts, torched cars and burned barricades during a demonstration in the French capital Paris against police violence and a draft security law.

A group of students of Dhaka University have organised a cultural programme protesting fundamentalism and extremism in the country at the Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) on DU campus.

India’s government has failed to break a deadlock with farmers protesting over agricultural reforms and will meet again, the agriculture minister and union leaders say.

Many public universities are in favour of holding semester exams for final year students to negate session jam and make students qualified for sitting in the upcoming BCS exams.

Experts at a webinar in the city today said the power utilities in Bangladesh are yet to earn the confidence of industrial consumers in terms of reliability of electricity supply.

UN Resident Coordinator in Dhaka Mia Seppo today said the UN and its all the agencies recognise the enormous investment that the government of Bangladesh has made in building Bhasan Char for Rohingya relocation.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan today assured to bring an end to the ongoing debate centring construction of Bangabandhu's sculpture within a week.

A section of Qawmi madrasa based clerics has given a proposal to the government to construct ‘minar’ (tower) -- instead of sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- inscribed with the 99 names of Allah.

Chinese scientists have created the world's first light-based quantum computer that can reliably demonstrate "quantum computational advantage", a milestone in which a quantum machine can solve a problem no classical supercomputer can tackle within a reasonable amount of time.

China has planted its flag on the Moon, becoming only the second nation to do so after the US, reports BBC.

Value Added Tax professionals in the country have formed an organisation -- Bangladesh VAT Bar Association.

Upon a High Court order, the authorities of Rajshahi Central Jail arranged the wedding of a rapist and his victim at the jail gate today.

Post and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar today announced the release of commemorative stamps and envelopes, and inaugurated the data cards marking the day of naming East Pakistan as Bangladesh.

Terming Turkey’s policy as “hostile”, French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is working with Egypt to stabilise the tensions in the Mediterranean.

Speakers at a technical workshop have opined that social protection services are good investments for the marginalised people.

President-elect Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure to expand the racial and ideological diversity in his choices for Cabinet and other top jobs. A month and a half before he takes office, he’s drawing rebukes from activists who fear he’ll fall short on promises to build an administration that looks like the country it governs.

A mysterious metal monolith, which recently emerged on top of a mountain in California near the town of Atascadero, has been torn down by a group of young men claiming to be Christians.