The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will hold the second stage of its 53rd annual meeting as a virtual event on September 17-18.

India reported a record number of 1,133 coronavirus-linked deaths and 75,809 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed this morning.

Eighty-four more trains -- mostly local and commuter -- are going to be added to the fleet between September 10 and 16, as Bangladesh Railway (BR) is trying to normalise service.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, in a corruption case.

Republican President Donald Trump, accused by Joe Biden of putting lives at risk in his handling of the coronavirus, on Monday called his Democratic rival "stupid" and demanded an apology for what Trump called anti-vaccine rhetoric.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the world must be better prepared for the next pandemic, as he calls on countries to invest in public health.

Bangladesh Railways has decided to sell half of all train tickets through station counters instead of selling all tickets online from September 12.

Proshanta Kumar Halder, who was allegedly involved with the embezzlement of huge amount of money from the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution, has said he would return to the country to return the money and settle the transactions and liabilities with the company if he gets proper security of his life.

The government has decided to appoint Md Golam Sarwar as the next High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia.

Facebook authority has appointed Sabhanaz Rashid Diya as a public policy manager and she is going to look after all matters pertaining to Bangladesh

Beximco Synthetics, a polyester filament yarn manufacturer, applied for delisting from the stock market.

Coats Digital’s market-leading FastReactPlan software solution will play a crucial role in ensuring that the Azim Group is able to navigate through the Covid-19 crisis and emerge stronger by responding quickly, efficiently, and sustainably to customer demands.

The United Kingdom has announced that it would fund one British and two Bangladeshi universities for conducting a research project to increase vaccine access in developing economies including Bangladesh.

A Saudi Arabian court has issued a final ruling in the case of the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, sentencing eight people to between seven and 20 years in prison.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin's Charite hospital says in a statement.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for discarding the term “martial law” from military lexicon, saying that it never brought any good to the country or the armed forces.

Unidentified masked men detained prominent Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witness as saying.

Julian Assange has resumed his battle in a London court to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLeaks website, after months of delay due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Two more murder cases were filed against former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and a few others including policemen with a court in Cox’s Bazar today.

The authority of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has suspended its eight officials and staffers in connection with the blast in a Narayanganj mosque which has claimed 26 lives so far.