Pfizer Inc has said the efficacy of its Covid-19 vaccine in adults over 65 years, who are at particular risk from the virus, is over 94%.

Government today asked all non-government secondary schools not to collect readmission, development, assignment, tiffin, laboratory, library and magazine fees from students during the coronavirus pandemic.

Figuring out what’s needed to achieve herd immunity with Covid-19 vaccines involves a range of factors, several of which are unknown.

No government physician will be allowed to serve at private healthcare organisations during office hour.

The verdict in the case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital's Kurmitola on January 5 will be delivered tomorrow.

A court in Barguna has sentenced a man to life in prison and fined him Tk 2 lakh for raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl 11 years ago.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today urged shop owners and business establishments to close shops by 8:00pm every day.

The government will set the fees for private healthcare services, including treatment and pathological cost, health minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Twenty-one people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours taking the total number of deaths to 6,275, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Border Security Force (BSF) commandant Satish Kumar was arrested by Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged involvement in a cattle smuggling racket operating at the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, NDTV reports quoting PTI.

A student of class ten was forcibly picked up and raped on her way home from tuition this morning in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, police said.

More than three-quarters of countries have indicated they will make stronger commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change by the end of 2020, despite the economic strain of the coronavirus pandemic, a new tracker showed on Tuesday.

Doctor and other staffers of National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH) today staged demonstration and observed work abstention to protest the arrest of the hospital’s registrar Dr Abdullah Al Mamun in connection with the death of senior ASP Anisul Karim, who was allegedly beaten to death by the staffers of a private mental health hospital.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Qatar Md Jashim Uddin has emphasised strengthening the trade relations between Bangladesh and Qatar, highlighting it as one of the most important aspects of bilateral relations.

Hurricane Iota battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf Tuesday, chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane just two weeks ago.

Some of them reached out to the homeless, the distressed with help when everyone was supposed to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak.

Power supply is likely to be restored in Sylhet and Sunamganj on completion of the repair work at Kumargaon Power Plant, engineers said today.

The High Court today granted anticipatory bail to 120 BNP leaders and activists including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy till January 5 in 11 cases filed for torching buses in Dhaka on November 12.

A youth was killed by unidentified persons in Dhaka’s Shah Ali area last night.

The body of a newborn was found in a pond this morning, three days after the 17-day-old was missing from her parents' home in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat.