In the last ten months until October this year, at least 195 women and children were either raped, murdered or physically and verbally abused in Narayanganj.

A civil court in Rajshahi today ordered the government to bear the costs of a case in which an error was made in the Revisional Survey to determine the record of rights (khatian) of a farmer’s land.

Facebook Inc on Thursday said it would remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc’s YouTube in October.

In the backdrop of media reports that China will build a major hydropower project on the transboundary river Brahmaputra in Tibet, India today said it has urged Chinese authorities to ensure that interests of downstream countries are not harmed by any activity in upstream areas.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh cannot forget the atrocities committed by Pakistan in 1971.

Unidentified criminals hacked a youth to death in broad daylight at Dakkhin Jamshing area in Savar today.

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from settlements in occupied territory, the Bahraini trade minister has said, drawing a rebuke from the Palestinians.

Almost 1.5 million people have so far died globally from the Covid-19 disease related to the coronavirus, and some 63 million people have been infected. As 2020 heads to its close, vaccines are on the horizon. There is hope that some aspects of life as we knew it will return.

The pace at which people access digital services in Bangladesh has picked up since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, giving rise to data management challenges in the post-Covid period, according to policy-based magazine WhiteBoard.

Twenty-two accused in the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad murder case, who are now in jail, today expressed no-confidence on the judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka.

A bust of Shaheed Madhusudan De -- founder of Dhaka University’s Modhur Canteen and a martyr of the Liberation War -- located in front of the Institute of Business Administration building, was found damaged last night.

In the early days in Wuhan, the first city first struck by the virus, getting a Covid-19 test was so difficult that residents compared it to winning the lottery.

The construction work of "India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project" was inaugurated in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur today.

Thailand today reported at least five deaths after flash floods caused by monsoon rains hit seven provinces in the country’s southern region.

The High Court today granted bail to an accused, Parvez Hasan, in a case filed over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28.

The European Union criticised Britain’s rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday, saying its own procedure was more thorough, after Britain became the first western country to endorse a Covid-19 shot.

Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a Muslim man for allegedly trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam, according to a report published by Deutsche Welle (DW).

Thirty-five people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The UK has proposed establishment of a UK-Bangladesh Trade and Investment Dialogue to deepen the already strong trading relationship between the two countries.

Describing the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged to take climate action and ‘make peace with nature’.