A blast at a World War One remembrance ceremony in Jeddah wounded several people on Wednesday, France said, urging its citizens living in Saudi Arabia to exercise maximum vigilance following what it called an attack using an explosive device.

Fire broke out at two adjacent knitting factories in Narayanganj Sadar upazila this evening.

China has urged the United States to stop boosting ties with Taiwan, after Washington and Taipei announced they would hold economic talks that Taiwan’s government described as a “major milestone” in relations.

Customs Intelligence officials seized around 495 mobile phone sets worth Tk 3 crores at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning.

Ruling Awami League MP Mahbubul Alam Hanif, also the party’s joint general secretary, has tested positive for Covid-19 today.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers have said they would resign in protest against the dismissal of four of their colleagues from the city assembly after Beijing gave local authorities new powers to further curb dissent.

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from Covid-19 according to interim trial results, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot.

US-Bangla Airlines has announced a new route which will operate direct flights to Muscat from Sylhet from November 17 onwards.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said those responsible for the death of Barishal Metropolitan Police’s Senior ASP Anisul Karim will be brought to justice.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today sealed off International Tobacco Industries Limited for running operation without environmental clearance certificate.

The government is going to start inspecting approved and unapproved private hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country on an urgent basis, said Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), today.

Green Delta Insurance Company has secured “AAA” credit rating for the seventh consecutive year in 2020 from Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB), according to a press release.

Around 40 robbers with weapons are expected to surrender to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chattogram tomorrow.

Two boys drowned in Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake when they were taking a bath there this noon.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today directed to immediately start work on two foot-over bridges near Matsya Bhaban and in front of the High Court.

The High Court today called for the record of a corruption case in which lawmaker and Awami League leader Haji Mohammad Salim was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of EnamulHaque Arman, a close aide of expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, in a Tk 195 crore money laundering case.

Bangladesh and 46 other least developed countries will not face any tariffs after the end of the Brexit transition period, the UK government has said.

Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the world's longest-serving prime minister who had held the post since independence in 1971, died today at the age of 84, state media announced.

Repealing Donald Trump’s travel ban on some Muslim majority nations will be one of the four executive orders that US President-elect Joe Biden plans to issue on his first day in the White House, his campaign managers say.