The impact of a new Covid-19 vaccine will kick in over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said.

Opposition leader Raushan Ershad today told parliament those who wanted to erase Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from history have been erased from history themselves.

The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to assist the country's fight against Covid-19.

Soumitra Chatterjee, one of Bengal’s foremost actors, was cremated today with full state honours as hundreds of Kolkatans gave a tearful farewell.

President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to publicly acknowledge for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, but reiterated his false claims that the vote was rigged.

A Dhaka court today rejected the bail petitions of former ward-30 councillor of Dhaka South Mohammad Erfan Salim, also son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim, and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah, in two arms cases filed with Chawkbazar Police Station.

Two employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital today confessed before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate to their involvement in the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim on November 9.

For the first time in railways’ 158-year-old history, railways authority today observed “Rail Day” to mark the instalment of rail line in the territory of the then undivided Bengal on this day in 1862.

Robbers wearing PPEs and brandishing “toy guns” looted Tk 8.7 lakh from a branch of Sonali Bank in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga in broad daylight today.

Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national human rights body said on Sunday, as fears grow of a security vacuum in the country amid a military campaign in the north.

The use of quality materials, appropriate site selection and compliance with the national building codes could ensure quality construction and sustainable buildings in Bangladesh, according to experts.

A team of Anti-corruption Commission seized Tk 1.9 crore from two accounts of Social Islami Bank belonging to the son and daughter of Cox's Bazar mayor.

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (LGRD) Minister and Chairman of the Master Plan Committee to free river, prevent pollution and increase navigability, Md Tajul Islam, today said the bridges around Dhaka which are creating obstacles in plying of water vessels will be demolished and new bridges will be built there.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Senior Secretary of the ministry’s Public Security Department Mustafa Kamal Uddin have been infected with the coronavirus.

A master thespian mourned, recalled with reverence

The death toll from the deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year has climbed to 67, while many areas remained submerged in a northern region hit by the worst flooding in more than four decades, officials said today.

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

The government is going to make Covid-19 negative certificates mandatory for every incoming passenger from foreign destinations, Prof Dr Khurshid Alam, Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said today.

The High Court today adjourned for a week the hearing on a writ petition that sought a stay order on Dhaka South City Corporation's (DSCC) move to relocate stray dogs.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock at the death of legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chattterjee.