Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has said.

A World Health Organization (WHO) special Covid-19 envoy has predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections.

Ethiopia’s army plans to surround the rebel-held capital of Tigray region with tanks and may use artillery on the city to try to end a nearly three-week war, a military spokesman has said urging civilians to save themselves.

If you roam around the cities of Bangladesh, you will see a million colourful rickshaws with larger-than-life characters and events painted on them. After the Partition of India in 1947, rickshaw painting evolved and became popular in the streets of Bangladesh. Now though, the art form is slowly dying as the artists are unable to pass on the long-standing tradition. If they don’t find a way to survive, in a couple of decades, we may not find any rickshaw painters left in the country

A special plan and a national data bank will be set up to transform Dhaka into a modern and livable city, LGRD Minister Tajul Islam -- also convener of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) -- said today.

Forest officials in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state said on Friday they used a crane to pull an elephant from a well, after working for more than 12 hours to rescue the animal.

Monir Hossain, widely known as “Golden Monir”, has been placed on an 18-day remand in three cases filed against him with Badda Police Station.

Leftist student organisation, Bangladesh Chhatra Union, the student front of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, today formed its new central committee with Foez Ullah and Dipok Shil as its president and general secretary respectively.

A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police authorities have so far terminated 10 policemen for failing drug tests while 8 were suspended.

Police in a drive arrested a man and recovered 148,000 pieces of yaba pills from a fishing trawler at Old Kalurghat area in Chandgaon of Chattogram city today.

Thirty-eight 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).

A fire broke out at Banani T&T Colony area in Dhaka this afternoon, and has since been brought under control.

At least three passengers, including a child, were killed in a road accident at Aamtali area on the Bogura-Dhaka Highway under Bogura’s Sherpur upazila today.

British Airways, one of the world's leading airlines, is going to resume operation from Dhaka after 11 years, sources at the Civil Aviation Ministry said.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin told G20 leaders on Saturday that Russia was ready to provide its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to other countries who need it.

Dhaka’s air ranked fifth-worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) this morning amid rising fears that the country could be hit by a second-wave of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today assured that the government has paid special attention to keep people safe from coronavirus amid apprehensions of worsening situation in winter.

The High Court today observed that those who are involved in laundering money have no patriotism and they are enemies of the state and nation.

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.