Ireland will call on the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization to conduct an impartial probe into the "forced landing" of a Ryanair jet in Minsk at a meeting of the council later on Thursday, its transport minister said.

President Joe Biden will seek $6 trillion in US federal spending for the 2022 fiscal year, rising to $8.2 trillion by 2031, the New York Times reported on Thursday, a day before the White House is expected to unveil its budget proposal.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in different raids in the capital last night arrested four fraudsters of a fake recruitment racket who embezzled crores of taka.

The Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Dr Akhteruzzaman said the students’ demand to reopen the campus is logical and they have no disagreement with the movement by students.

Mali's ousted interim president and prime minister have been freed after they were detained by the military and later resigned, an aide to the vice president said on Thursday.

Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants killed at least 22 civilians with knives and machetes in an overnight raid on villages near the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Wednesday.

Police have arrested a man for raping a schoolgirl in Narayanganj’s Sadar upazila.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir must be arrested in connection with the case filed over the death of a college girl at a Gulshan flat in the capital, demanded activists and the victim’s family members.

The detection rate of Covid-19 infection has almost doubled in Rajshahi district today, according to reports of two RT PCR laboratories in the city.

A lawyer for the European Union accused AstraZeneca on Wednesday of failing to respect its contract with the 27-nation bloc for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and asked a Belgian court to impose a large fine on the company.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen today said an independent international commission must be formed to take legal action against the Israeli authorities for crime and atrocities on the Palestinian people.

A transit employee shot eight co-workers to death and was himself killed at a commuter rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, authorities said, in the latest burst of deadly mass gun violence to grip the United States.

Belgium said on Wednesday it was suspending vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 41 following the death of a woman from severe side-effects after she was given the shot.G

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday a journalist pulled off a plane that was forced to land in Minsk had been plotting a rebellion, and he accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him.

Mali's interim president and prime minister resigned on Wednesday, two days after they were arrested by the military, an aide to the vice president said.

A child died after falling from the mother's lap on way to a shelter in Betagi upazila of Barguna today to escape Cyclone Yaas and its associated tidal waves.

Former lawmaker from Lakshmipur MA Awal and one of his hired goons Zahirul Islam Babu were sent to jail today after their bails in trader Shahinuddin murder case were rejected.

Illegal deforestation is engulfing Bandarban's rich forest endangering biodiversity and the indigenous lifestyle.

Local authorities are going to launch an RT PCR laboratory in Chapainawabganj tomorrow, in the wake of increasing detection rate of coronavirus infection in the frontier district.

A Swechhasebak League leader was sent to jail today by Natore Judicial Magistrate’s court after a case was filed against him yesterday for physically assaulting a Natore Water Development Board executive engineer.