The election to the mayoral post of Chandpur municipality, which was postponed following the death of BNP mayoral candidate Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, will now be held on October 10.

At least 7,000 health workers worldwide have died after being infected with the coronavirus, including more than 1,300 in Mexico alone, the most for any country, Amnesty International says.

Several hundred peaceful demonstrators marched Thursday in New York’s Times Square over the death of a black man that police hooded and forced face down on the road, according to video footage that prompted a probe from the state’s attorney general.

A six-year-old boy died after falling from a rooftop while flying a kite in Dhaka's Demra area this morning.

For the first time, India and Bangladesh were in the "extreme risk" category, joining China and Myanmar in a group of 32 countries with the worst risk of slave labour, the Modern Slavery index by risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft finds.

A suspect in the fatal shooting of a supporter of the Patriot Prayer group in Portland was killed when authorities moved to arrest him, the New York Times reports, citing officials familiar with the investigation.

Jubo League leader Jahangir Alam was suspended after his detention in connection with the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam in Dinajpur.

Actor Robert Pattinson tested positive for Covid-19, causing production in Britain on the set of his film "The Batman" to pause, Vanity Fair and the Hollywood Reporter have reported.

Lebanon’s army has said it found 4.35 tonnes of ammonium nitrate near the entrance to Beirut port, the site of a huge blast last month caused by a large stockpile of the same highly explosive chemical.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer Wahida Khanam has undergone successful surgery at National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital (NINH). Her condition is, however, still critical, doctors say.

The situation of about four lakh Bangladeshi expatriates, mainly migrant workers, in Qatar is set to improve as the Gulf country recently brought some major changes to its labour laws for workers’ protection.

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested a man, who was on the run for two years, for his alleged involvement in smuggling fake Indian currency from his associates in Bangladesh.

A youth has been allegedly assaulted to death in Barishal by staff of a rehabilitation centre, while they were trying to restrain and take him to the centre after he became violent at home.

Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad has said the government decided to collect data on returnee migrant workers at immigration and preserve those for providing the returnees with different support in the future.

The parliamentary standing committee on fisheries and livestock today summoned concerned officials of Department of Livestock Services involved in preparing a project plan where prices of different items were estimated unusually high.

A Rohingya youth has been detained at the regional passport office at Panchlaish in Chattogram while trying to get a Bangladeshi passport.

The right side of the body of Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam, who was critically injured in an attack today, has become paralysed, doctors said.

A local journalist of a private television channel was allegedly stabbed to death in broad daylight in Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila today over previous enmity.

Forty-four eminent citizens and 19 migrant rights bodies have demanded immediate and unconditional release of migrants who were arrested upon their return from Vietnam and the Middle East.

China will deliver "a proper and necessary" response to new curbs by the State Department on its envoys to the United States, the foreign ministry has said.