Some 28 percent youths, aged above 18, left studies to support their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, according to an online survey conducted by Citizen’s Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.

Team Bangladesh has become the champion among 174 countries in a robotics competition titled 'First Global Challenge' for school and higher school students.

Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission has stared investigation into the death Younus Muhammad Shahidunnabi Jewel, who was beaten and burnt to death by a mob in Lalmonirhaton Thursday following a rumour of demeaning the Holy Quran.

A section of medical students took position on Shahbagh intersection in the capital to press home their three-point demand including reduction of session jam.

Over 9.32 lakh tonnes of onion is expected to be produced from around 88,800 hectares of land in all eight districts under the Rajshahi division during the ongoing Rabi season.

Police in Quebec City today arrested a man on suspicion of killing two people and injuring five others in a stabbing rampage near the provincial legislature on Halloween.

Abul Hasnat, editor of ‘Kali O Kolom’, a popular monthly magazine on art, literature and culture of the country, passed away this morning while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital.

Interns at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital went on an indefinite strike yesterday, to realise their three-point demands including withdrawal of a case filed by a doctor against some their leaders.

A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety on Saturday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir that was flattened in a powerful earthquake.

A super typhoon barrelled into the southern part of the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, bringing "catastrophic" violent winds and intense rains with two landfalls so far, the weather bureau said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service.

An Orthodox priest has been shot and injured at a church in the French city of Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source says.

Rohingya rights groups have expressed grave concern about an online propaganda war being stepped up by the Myanmar Army, the Tatmadaw, in Rakhine State.

A new stimulus package is urgently needed for micro and small businesses to recover from the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and help the economy, said analysts today.

A year after she was sent to Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker, Nodi returned to Bangladesh last night, lifeless, crammed inside a coffin, only to be received by her wailing relatives on the premises of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to order England back into a national lockdown as the United Kingdom passed the grim milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and scientists warned the virus was spreading faster than their worst predictions.

A Khulna court today sent the wife of a leader of Sramik League, ruling party Awami League's labour front, to jail in a case filed over assaulting a police officer.

The body of the man, who was beaten to death and later burnt at Burimari Union Parishad premises for ‘hurting religious sentiment’ in Rangpur district's Patgram upazila on Thursday evening, was handed over to family members this evening.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said that all studies till now show that local coal extraction for power generation is neither feasible nor cost-effective.

The authorities of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) have suspended a student for allegedly making derogatory remarks on Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on Facebook.