India today allowed the entry of international visitors by relaxing visa restrictions for all foreigners with the exception of tourists.

Abdul Momin, 29, a freelance photographer from Bogura, was chosen as one of the winners of the prestigious Russian Andrei Stenin International Press Photo contest 2020.

It is said that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now going through the most difficult time since its inception in 1978. The party chairperson Khaleda Zia has been facing a number of cases and was also convicted. The physically ill former prime minister is now confined to her Gulshan home. BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman is in London. In such a critical time, secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is assigned to hold the party together.

All banks and mobile financial service (MFS) providers will have to introduce financial interoperability system by March 31, to help clients transfer money between the financial organisations.

A man stabbed a woman after failing to rape her at Halsa village in Sadar upazila of Jashore yesterday night.

In a major reshuffle, 19 police officers, including the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner, have been transferred today.

The government has decided to evaluate climate change projects by outsourcing through a third party and will take action against project directors if any irregularities are found.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today upheld the High Court order which granted anticipatory bail to lawmaker Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, known as Nixon Chowdhury, in a case over violations of the electoral code of conduct.

The United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees bring the international community together and pledge to do everything possible for supporting Rohingyas and host communities.

A Bangladeshi expatriate worker died on board an aircraft while returning to Dhaka from Kuwait this afternoon.

After 7 months of inactivity, Star Cineplex has opened its gates for the audience again through the premiere of two films - “Mulan” and “Tenet.”

India’s indigenously built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette was today commissioned into the Indian Navy, carrying the same name as its predecessor, which made a stellar contribution to Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.

Mutual Trust Bank will keep all its banking services closed except credit card operation from 11:55pm of October 29 to 9:30am on November 5.

The government is going to upgrade the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) to a 1,200-bed hospital soon as part of its move to improve the healthcare services in the country, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque today.

Mutual Trust Bank will keep all its banking services closed except credit card operation from 11:55pm of October 29 to 9:30am on November 5.

Water transport workers, who have been observing work abstention -- suspending cargo handling at Chattogram and Mongla ports' outer anchorage -- have agreed to withdraw their strike and resumed work.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume its flights on Chennai and Kolkata routes from October 28.

A Nepalese company--Anmol Healthcare Ltd--will buy two million shots of BANCOVID, a vaccine candidate, developed by Bangladeshi company Globe Biotech Ltd if it passes trials, said the company officials.

A Dhaka court today sent daily Sangram Chief Reporter Ruhul Amin Gazi, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), to jail, a day after he was arrested in a sedition case.

Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) Chairman Rear Admiral SM Abul Kalam Azad met water transport workers’ leaders in the city this afternoon as cargo handling at the port’s outer anchorage remained suspended for last three days due to work abstention of the latter.