The island kingdom of Bahrain said it has become the second nation in the world to grant an emergency-use authorisation for the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine’s first-ever “Kid of the Year.”

A 44-day ‘Measles-Rubella Vaccination Campaign’ will begin on December 12 across the country with a target for administering 3.40 crore children.

Sukanta Sen, Sirajganj staff correspondent of private television channel Rtv, died with coronavius at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning.

As the world awaits a Covid-19 vaccine, a US public health expert says the vast majority of people in Bangladesh and other parts of the world will have to wait a bit longer than expected due to limited global capacity of vaccine production.

Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he’s pushed before to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Canada’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Benoit Préfontaine, spoke about Canada’s intention to intervene jointly with the Netherlands in The Gambia’s case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the 2nd International Conference on “The Rohingya Crisis in Comparative Perspective’ hosted by the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction in collaboration with Center for Genocide Studies of University of Dhaka today.

Two siblings died after falling under the wheels of a train in Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila this evening.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her prudent and decisive action in relocating a group of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char in order to avoid deaths and accidents due to landslides and other untoward incidents in the overcrowded hilly areas of Kutupalong refugee camp.

A Sundarbans-bound tourist launch capsized after getting stuck on a shoal of the Passur river early today.

About six kilometres of Padma Bridge has become visible with the installation of its 40th span today.

Bangladesh is witnessing a gradual rise in dengue cases and health authorities have confirmed 11 new cases in the past 24 hours until early today.

TIME, TIME for Kids and Nickelodeon announced 15-year-old scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao from Colorado as the 2020 Kid of the Year, the multiplatform initiative recognising extraordinary young leaders who are making a positive impact in their communities.

Seven people, including six of a family, were killed after a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Daulatpur upazila of Manikganj this afternoon.

Back-to-back hurricanes Eta and Iota internally displaced more than half a million people in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, according to International Organization for Migration data. The UN agency has said at least a third could be displaced for more than three months, hampering their ability to earn a living and rebuild their lives.

Sayed Ullah, one of the Rohingyas who were relocated to Bhasan Char, could not contain his feelings of extreme happiness seeing all the facilities there and kept calling relatives back in Cox's Bazar camps to join the next batch.

Former education minister and also a presidium member of ruling Awami League Nurul Islam Nahid has tested positive for Covid-19.

Bangladesh government has asked everyone to exercise utmost caution not to undermine or misinterpret its genuine efforts to improve lives and livelihood of the Rohingyas through relocation to Bhasan Char.

US President-elect Joe Biden has said he would publicly take a coronavirus vaccine to demonstrate its safety to the public and pledged to retain the nation’s top adviser on the pandemic, Anthony Fauci, when he takes office next month

Debretsion Gebremichael, the leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigrayan forces, has said that protests were breaking out in the regional capital which fell to federal troops days ago in their month-long war.