Two workers died and four others suffered burns after an explosion at a steel mill in Narayanganj's Rupganj early today.

A forty-year-old woman was raped multiple times by her neighbour who threatened to kill her only son if she did not comply in Gazipur’s Kaliganj.

The depression over northwest Bay and adjoining area started crossing West Bengal-Khulna coast, near West Bengal-Bangladesh border region, and is likely to cross the coastline by 6:00pm this evening, said the met office in Dhaka today.

Russia has granted US whistleblower Edward Snowden permanent residency rights, his lawyer said on Thursday, a step towards Russian citizenship if he wants it.

US President Donald Trump’s description of India as a filthy place with polluted air has unleashed calls on social media for urgent clean-up action, particularly over New Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital.

Malaysian expats in Bangladesh today provided food relief to the Abinta Kabir Foundation and locals affected by the pandemic.

Bad weather has stranded nearly 400 tourists on Saint Martin’s Island. They could not return yesterday as the well-marked low over the northwest Bay and adjoining west-central Bay moved north-westwards and intensified into a depression over the North-west Bay and adjoining area.

India’s legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev today suffered a heart attack and underwent an emergency coronary angioplasty, Fortis Escorts hospital said.

Fourteen 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).

Bangladesh has lodged an amended submission on the limits of its outer continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal to the United Nations.

Members of National Security Intelligence today claimed to have arrested a Nigerian national who used to cheat people by identifying himself as a representative of Coca-Cola in Bangladesh.

A mobile court backed by Rapid Action Battalion yesterday sentenced different terms to a unani medicine factory owner and two staffers for producing medicines in an unhygienic environemnt and without permission from the concerned authorities in Dhaka's Turag area.

Myanmar has assured China of taking back the Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi passed this message to Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen during a phone call Thursday evening when there was a donors’ conference led by the Western countries.

The US stressed on the UN Security Council’s five permanent members’ obligations in ending the violence in Myanmar as it announced $200 million new funding for the Rohingyas.

Launch services on Barishal’s internal routes were suspended today morning due to inclement weather.

Patuakhali administration has prepared 800 shelters in the area for combating possible cyclone triggered by the depression at Bay.

The 19-year old right winger has been registered to train and play for the academy for the 2020-21 season.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted full approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for patients hospitalised with Covid-19, after conditional authorisation was given in May.

President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden traded accusations of graft and clashed on the Covid-19 pandemic Thursday but without landing a knockout blow 12 days before the election in a final debate that many saw as Trump's last big chance to change the narrative.

The international community yesterday pledged $597 million as humanitarian assistance to the Rohingyas in the region, while calling for Myanmar to hold accountable the human rights violators and to create conditions for Rohingya repatriation.