Two construction workers died after a scaffolding collapsed while they were working on the fourth floor of an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Bashundhara Residential Area this morning.

In the last 24 hours, thirty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the country, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped countless American rituals, even the commemoration of 9/11 could not escape unchanged.

Myanmar's military has sought to undermine the confessions of two soldiers who said they were ordered to "exterminate" Rohingya Muslims before taking part in the massacre of scores of men, women and children.

The officer-in-charge (OC) of Ghoraghat Police Station has been withdrawn in connection to the vicious attack on Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam on September 3.

A suspected “cattle thief” was killed in a mob beating in Bogura’s Nandigram upazila last night.

Five workers of a steel mill in Gazipur’s Tongi area sustained burn injuries while melting iron early today.

The government is relying on its declared Tk 1.03 trillion stimulus packages for various sectors to offset the Covid-19 shock and bring back normalcy in overall economic activities for calculating relatively higher revenue earnings for a mid-term period.

Germany has provided the International Organisation for Migration with two million euros to support the UN migration agency’s Covid-19 response in Bangladesh.

Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the United Nations.

India and China have agreed on a five-point plan for resolving the prolonged military face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

A fire that broke out at a shopping centre in Dhaka's Gulshan area, is doused.

MA Rashid Sarkar, chairman of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) Board, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital, where he was admitted after testing positive for Covid-19. He was 67.

Members of Bangladesh Navy have joined in alongside firefighters to help put out a fire that broke out at Beirut port area in Lebanon today.

Sylhet City Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19.

The High Court today stayed for a month the order of Bangladesh Copyright Office that granted the copyright of 260 books of the popular espionage-thriller "Masud Rana Series" and 50 books of "Kuasha Series" to its ghostwriter Sheikh Abdul Hakim.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is ready to procure Covid-19 vaccine from the country where it will be developed first.

British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show "The Avengers" and enjoyed a distinguished and varied career on stage and screen from James Bond to "Game of Thrones", died today aged 82.

Expatriates and professional visit pass-holders from the 23 countries, including Bangladesh, in the enforced entry ban list drawn up by Malaysia are now allowed to enter the country.

Microsoft Corp recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people who are briefed on the matter.