Accelerate Bangladesh, an investment readiness programme by BetterStories Limited and Bangladesh Angels Network in collaboration with Bridge for Billions and Biniyog Briddhi, has been launched via a virtual webinar.

International donors have raised $700 million - less than half the target - to purchase future coronavirus vaccines for poor countries in a global initiative to ensure eventual vaccines do not go only to rich countries, a World Health Organization official says.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government today signed agreements for $50 million in loan to promote, fund, and implement public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in the country.

Sister of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan sought to make police superintendent (SP) of Cox’s Bazar an accused in the case filed following his murder, but the court today denied her request.

Amnesty International has accused a secretive Myanmar corporation with links to international businesses of financing Myanmar’s military, including many units directly responsible for human rights violations against the Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities.

After much speculation that Star Cineplex may close its operation at the Bashundhara City mall, the authorities of Star Cineplex have announced that it will continue its operation at the mall as before.

The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to Destiny Group Managing Director Md Rafiqul Amin in two money laundering cases involving Tk 4,200 crore.

A Dhaka court sets October 12 as the date for submission of a probe report in the case lodged over the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016.

India and Japan have inked a landmark agreement that will allow their militaries to access each other's bases for logistics support, a development that comes in the midst of India’s border standoff with China.

Two school students and one an elderly man died in lightning strikes in different areas of Gazipur today.

A large fire has erupted at Beirut port, sending a huge column of smoke above the city a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.

Serum Institute of India, which is producing and conducting trials of the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University along with pharma giant AstraZeneca, today announced it will halt the Phase 3 trials set to begin in India next week.

Bangladesh and Hungary have agreed to enhance cooperation in the field of nuclear energy and required training for skilled manpower.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader today demanded the government retract its decision to close dedicated Covid-19 hospitals. He further said this move would put people at risk of death.

The High Court has issued four directives for the lower courts concerned over cancellation of the bail granted by it to the accused and ordered the Supreme Court registrar general to issue a circular to this effect.

Saying that her government is not sparing anyone involved in extrajudicial killing, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told the Parliament that people should not indiscriminately criticise law enforcers in a way that, out of fear, they lose their spirit to work efficiently.

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), providing a single dose each of Covid-19 vaccine to 7.8 billion people around the world will require the use of around 8,000 Boeing 747 cargo aircraft -- and planning needs to begin now.

Fifteen countries, including Bangladesh, account for approximately two-thirds of the worldwide deaths linked to trans fat intake, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.

Power supply in Mymensingh district was disrupted after a fire broke out at a sub-station of Kewatkhali Power Grid.

Politics has gone into the hands of criminals and the attempt to kill Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam in Dinajpur is the outcome of it, Workers Party President and MP Rashed Khan Menon says.