A virtual seminar titled “Challenge and solution to prevent food loss and waste in Bangladesh” is held to mark the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

A Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down an Armenian SU-25 warplane over Armenian territory, killing the pilot, an Armenian defence ministry spokeswoman said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today underscored the need for a well-coordinated global roadmap to face the Covid-19 crisis and urged the United Nations to continue to play its catalytic role in this regard.

Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has died, his office said in a statement read out on state television on Tuesday.

A general diary was filed against late Narayanganj-5 MP Nasim Osman’s son Ajmeri Osman and his three associates last night for issuing threat to an apparel factory owner and its officials.

Law enforcers allegedly tortured activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Union in police custody after picking them up from in front of Viqarunnisa School in Dhaka, where the BCU activists were drawing graffiti.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government today signed an agreement for $3 million in grant for procuring urgent medical supplies including the Covid-19 vaccine.

Rapid Action Battalion today arrested another accused of the case filed over the gang-rape of a woman on Friday at Murari Chand (MC) College in Sylhet.

The Supreme Court today stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that granted bail to daily Sangram Editor Abul Asad in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended completing infrastructural development of Ramna Park as per the original design.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today told animal rights activists that he is willing to work towards an integrated, realistic and long-term solution for stray dog population management in the city.

Hathazari upazila administration of Chattogram seized 1,000 meters of illegal fishing net and destroyed four mechanised boats for illegally lifting sand from Halda river today.

The first consignment of 58 tonnes of Myanmar onions were unloaded at the port on Monday night after Chattogram Seaport Plant Quarantine Center issued the clearance.

Violence against “indigenous” women keeps increasing due to culture of impunity in the country, speakers said at a human chain programme in the capital today.

India has agreed to hold ministerial level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting at the soonest possible time to resolve the outstanding issues involving water-sharing of the common rivers.

A Dhaka court today summarily dismissed the lawsuit filed against Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote president and former state minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim and four others for “negatively portraying” Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder and late president Ziaur Rahman in a drama titled “Indemnity”.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members today claimed to have arrested 10 members of a fraud gang for allegedly swindling a large sum of money from people in the name of providing government jobs.

The High Court today formed a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the incident of the gang-rape of a woman at Murari Chand College in Sylhet on September 25.

Flooding in Gaibandha and Bogura is deteriorating as water levels of both Karatoa and Bangali rivers has been rising for the last seven days.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved four projects involving Tk 796 crore, including a Tk 338 crore to make mouza and plot-based national digital land zoning.