Education Minister Dipu Moni today called upon the authorities of different public universities to hold combined admission tests.

The US Presidential elections scheduled for Tuesday is expected to see a record high turnout of voters, with polls analysts attributing this to Americans’ attempt for a change.

Bangladesh Bank has further relaxed repayment of loans by allowing the borrowers to make their due payments to financial institutions in more installments, considering the Covid-19 fallout.

With two days to go, Democrat Joe Biden holds a commanding national lead over President Donald Trump amid deep voter concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, but Trump is keeping his hopes alive by staying competitive in the swing states that could decide the White House race.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today stayed until November 8 a High Court order that granted bail to contractor Asif Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

At least four people have died in the super typhoon Goni that lashed on the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, including a five-year-old washed away in flash floods after dikes collapsed.

A Dhaka court today placed Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Salim's son Mohammad Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a fresh two-day remand in the case filed over assaulting navy official Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan.

The United States has said it wants to help Bangladesh diversify its private sector to partially move away from the ready-made garment (RMG) industry into other high-value areas, including the digital economy.

Two more men have been arrested in connection with a knife attack that left three dead at a church in Nice, bringing the number of people in custody to six as investigators look at the suspected assailant’s last known contacts.

The government has spent an average of Tk15,000 for regular Covid-19 patients and Tk 47,000 for Covid-19 patients in ICU beds, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

A 35-year old house help and a 12-year old school girl were raped in two separate incidents in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila.

French President Emmanuel Macron -- in an interview with Al Jazeera -- has said that he can understand why Muslims were shocked by the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, but also said he could never accept the issue justified violence, reports BBC.

Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 53 people and injuring more than 900.

The Holy Quran was not demeaned by Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel who was beaten and later burnt to death, said Al Mahmud Fauzul Kabir, head of the three-member National Human Rights Commission's investigation team.

Eighteen 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.

Dhaka North City Corporation is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation in areas under its jurisdiction from tomorrow to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, carriers of both dengue and chikungunya.

At this time of Covid-19, the bulk manufacturing facility of Incepta Vaccine Ltd may play a big role for Bangladesh and other countries as well when the vaccine is released, said Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman, chief of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA), yesterday.

No one will be allowed to enter any market, mall and shop without mask from today, Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity has announced.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says in the wake of resurgence of Covid-19 transmission across the globe, the time has come to reintroduce coronavirus tests for every inbound passenger at all ports.

A Dhaka court today sentenced three transport workers of Hanif Paribahan to death in a case filed over murder of private university student Saidur Rahman Payel in 2018.