India has complained to Saudi Arabia over a banknote that shows Kashmir as a separate country, in the latest protest over maps of the disputed region that have also targeted foreign media outlets and a social media giant.

A Dhaka court today placed AB Siddique Dipu, protocol officer of Haji Salim's business organisation Madina Group, on two-day fresh remand in the case filed for assaulting navy officer Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan.

Three separate cases were filed in connection with the incident of a mob beating a man to death and burning him on Burimari Union Parishad premises on allegations of hurting religious sentiment in the district's Patgram upazila on Thursday evening.

A Brussels district has suspended a teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) while discussing the murder of a French teacher who had used the same image, its spokesman said Friday.

A police Inspector of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) was beaten by a sub-inspector and later handcuffed in the port city’s Riazuddin Bazar area.

Officials have evacuated almost a million residents in the southern part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon as a category 5 storm - the world’s strongest this year - makes landfall on Sunday.

Former James Bond actor Sean Connery has passed away. He was 90.

Prominent cultural personality and freedom fighter Nasiruddin Yousuff has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University with Covid-19.

A third person has been taken into custody in France in connection with a knife attack which left three dead in Nice, a police source says, as the government ramps up security efforts against possible militant attacks.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police today said it has ended its investigation for submitting charge sheet in a case filed in connection with the explosion at a Narayanganj mosque, which left 34 people dead.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque today said an agreement to bring Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh would be done within two to four days.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has grabbed the third spot of largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, surpassing USA’s Apple Inc and clocking in a podium place finish behind first placed Samsung and second placed Huawei.

A 55-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping his 12-year-old daughter in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was "not without limits" and should not "arbitrarily and needlessly hurt" certain communities.

The 35th span of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge was installed today, bringing a total of 5,250 metres of the structure into view.

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).

A mobile court today fined seven potato wholesalers in Dhaka's Mohammadpur Krishi Market Tk 4.30 lakh for selling the vegetable at prices higher than that fixed by the government.

Bangladeshi State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said that he looks forward to establishing direct road and rail links with China via Myanmar.

One of the seven people who were burnt in a fire caused by an explosion at a scrap material shop in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area on Tuesday died earlier today at hospital.

There is an especially strong South Asian focus in the coming US elections. Not just because the Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has an Indian heritage, but also because South Asians of all stripes have the potential to swing the election -- especially true in key battleground states such as Texas and Michigan.