Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook (FB.O) is banning the social network from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal, it said yesterday.

Md Ishtiaq Ahmed, inspector (operation) of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station, has been transferred.

Syria has freed more than 400 civil servants, judges, lawyers and journalists detained this year in a crackdown on social media dissent, a move seen by rights activists and former detainees as intended to win over public opinion ahead of presidential elections.

Eid-ul-Fitr will be on Thursday May 13 as the Shawwal moon was not sighted on Tuesday, according to the Haramain Sharifain Twitter account posting live from the Tumair observatory in Saudi Arabia.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has teamed up with Young Bangla, a youth volunteering platform, launching a mass-masking campaign to help increase proper mask-wearing in Dhaka significantly and reduce Covid-19 transmission.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) has rescheduled the 43rd BCS preliminary examination to October 29 from October 15.

As the sun was about to set over the Gaza horizon on May 10, 2021, the community would not have known what was to happen that night. But they are citizens of Gaza, and what did happen would not have taken them by surprise. Israeli bombardment overnight of the besieged strip has claimed the lives of 21 Palestinians, including nine children. As dawn broke, there was devastation and a fresh round of Israeli attacks killing another three people. By the time of writing this, at least 26 lives have been lost to Israeli attacks.

The European Union launched a new lawsuit against AstraZeneca on Tuesday that could lead to financial sanctions for the company which the EU alleges has breached a supply contract for COVID-19 vaccines.

A Jhalakathi court today sent a journalist, arrested under the Digital Security Act, to jail.

Dhaka has long been detached from the lush green identity of typical Bengal delta. This concrete labyrinth, full of dust and chaos, now has the last residues of green. But does urbanisation come only at the cost of nature? Does construction really need a barren foundation? Why is Dhaka failing to embrace nature as her innate part? Can this still be redeemed?

Protesters rallied in towns and cities around Myanmar on Tuesday to denounce its military rulers, 100 days after the generals' overthrow of an elected government plunged the country into its biggest crisis in decades.

A case was filed against the general secretary of Naragati Thana Awami League for allegedly torturing a child in Kalia of Narail.

A legal notice was served on the government to suspend MBBS admission process for academic session 2020-21 in three days, claiming its merit list was "flawed".

BNP has termed the government’s reasoning -- on legal grounds -- for not accepting the application from Khaleda Zia's family to allow her to go abroad for medical treatment "unacceptable".

Two people were killed and four others were injured in a head-on collision between two motorcycles on Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj today.

The World Health Organziation said on Monday that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily.

Kuwait has banned direct commercial flight operations with Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka until further notice amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate two additional flights from Dhaka to Dubai on May 12 before United Arab Emirates’ suspension of entry of travellers from Bangladesh comes into effect from May 13.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend her next court hearing in person, her chief lawyer said on Monday, after weeks of stalled virtual proceedings over charges her supporters say are fabricated.

The European Commission will start on Tuesday a second legal case against AstraZeneca over its delayed deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines, a spokesman for the EU executive said on Monday.