Chief Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma has thanked Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr AK Abdul Momen for his good wishes and noted that the next 25 years are crucial for both countries.

The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly,” as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Shah Jahan Chowdhury, also former lawmaker of Chattogram-15, from Satkania upazila of Chattogram has been placed on a three-day remand in a case filed with Hathazari police station over Hefajat-e-Islam’s mayhem on March 26 during the protests against Indian PM Modi's visit.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday Britain would accelerate its COVID-19 vaccination programme, to try to contain a fast-spreading variant first identified in India that could knock a re-opening of the economy off track.

A security guard of Benapole Port was killed after a private car ran him over at Benapole Bazar in Jashore last night.

Ongoing Israeli airstrikes have so far killed 126 Palestinians in Gaza, including 31 children and 20 women, 950 people have been injured, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Friday, according Al Arabiya.

India and the United States today agreed to work towards increasing Covid-19 vaccine availability and saving lives.

FDC has always been associated with glamour, fame and success. However, the people who enliven the screen, the unsung heroes, known as junior artists or supporting actors somehow remain out of the limelight.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited the Indian state of Assam to reap benefits from Bangladesh's growth trajectory in view of the warmth, depth and diversity of Bangladesh-India relationship.

Ireland's High Court on Friday rejected a Facebook bid to block an inquiry by the Irish data regulator that could halt Facebook's data flows from the European Union to the United States.

“I only had some shemai (sweet vermicelli) this morning. I don't have any new dress this Eid.”

The World Health Organization said today is in touch with the United States about sharing vaccines with the international COVAX scheme, which distributes doses to poorer countries.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said their party leaders and activists have not been able to properly celebrate Eid in a decade as they have been subjected to killing, enforced disappearance and other repressive acts.

During the whole month of Ramadan, nearly 1,500 people received iftar here every day. ‘Mehmankhana’, as the organisers call it, aimed to provide hot meals to orphaned children, rickshaw-pullers, street vendors, and people from other marginalised sections of society who have become unemployed during lockdown. Special arrangements were also made for all these people on the day of Eid. Everyone was happy with such an arrangement on Eid day.

Another coronavirus positive Bangladeshi, who arrived from India through Benapole land port recently, has fled from the coronavirus ward of Jashore General Hospital.

A child was killed and three people were injured in two separate road accidents in Barguna’s Bamna upazila today.

An online petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Tokyo Games to be canceled has been submitted to local organizers, the International Olympic Committee and others.

With five-point demand, including allowing resumption of public transport, owners and workers of buses staged a sit-in programme in Tangail on Eid day.

At least 12 people were killed in an explosion inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.

It was the evening of May 14, 1971. Residents of Demra village were busy completing their daily works and traders of Demra haat (rural market) were closing their shops. Suddenly, Pakistani occupation forces cordoned off Demra village and opened fire on unarmed people.