The High Court today came down hard on two private companies of Md Noor Ali -- Unique Property Development Ltd (UPDL), and Sonargaon Economic Zone (SEZ) -- for grabbing and filling farmland, lowland and water bodies in order to establish a housing project and economic zone at Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj.

European Union wants united role of international community for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis.

Police recovered a young woman’s body from the embankment of the Singimari river in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat this morning.

A tribunal in Dhaka today sentenced seven people to death for killing and burning the body of Atik Ullah Chowdhury, a valiant freedom fighter and former chairman of Konda union under Keraniganj upazila, in 2013.

Britain today became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week.

President Donald Trump teased running again for president in 2024 as he hosted a holiday reception at the White House on Tuesday evening.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against four accused in connection with the murder of Sagira Morshed in Dhaka 30 years ago.

A US federal judge has blocked rule changes ordered by President Donald Trump making it harder for people to get skilled-worker visas.

Indian health officials have said there was never any talk of vaccinating the country’s entire 1.3 billion population with Covid-19 vaccine and indicated that the purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission by inoculating a “critical mass of people.”

As the government moves to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char, the UN says it has not been involved in preparations for the movement or the identification of refugees and has limited information on the overall relocation exercise.

Healthcare workers and others recommended for the first Covid-19 inoculations could start getting shots within 24 hours after the vaccine receives regulatory authorization, the chief adviser for the US government’s Operation Warp Speed program said today.

Facebook Inc’s independent Oversight Board announced on Tuesday the first six cases where it could overrule the social media company’s decisions to remove certain pieces of content from its platforms.

Bangladesh has urged countries to be more ambitious on mitigation, adaptation, climate finance and the issue of loss and damage.

The High Court will deliver a verdict tomorrow on a writ petition challenging the legality of earth filling by Unique Property Development Ltd, and Sonargaon Economic Zone, two private companies, for establishing a housing project and economic zone at Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj.

Major Indian pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) today said they have begun adaptive phase 2/3 clinical trials for the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in India.

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court today stayed a High Court order for 8 weeks that had halted the election to Faridpur municipality scheduled for December 10 this year.

The Globe Biotech Ltd cancels the contract with the icddr,b to conduct clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine Bancovid.

The massive telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed today, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries.

For the fourth time this year, Bangladeshis expatriates have sent remittance of over US $2 billion, despite the global economic fallout due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“No structure can be set up on land along rivers. If anyone tries to harm rivers, we will take strict action,” said Dr Muzibur Rahman Howlader, chairperson of National River Conservation Commission (NRCC), while visiting Dhaleshwari River in Savar today.