Australia is likely to remain shut to visitors until late 2022, the country’s trade and tourism minister said Friday, as another global coronavirus surge smashed hopes of a quick reopening.

US employers likely hired nearly a million workers in April as they rushed to meet a surge in demand, unleashed by the reopening of the economy amid rapidly improving public health and massive financial help from the government.

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Barishal and Chattogram divisions in next 24hours ending at 9:00 am tomorrow, according to a Met office release issued today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the United States may consider accepting a good number of forcibly-displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh for filling up a large portion of the new numbers set for 2021 and 2022.

The rush of homebound people and transport has increased manifold at Paturia ferry terminal in Manikganj, the gateway to 21 districts in the southern part of the country.

Toufique Hasan, Bangladesh’s deputy high commissioner in Kolkata, handed over 10,000 vials of Remdesivir injection to a representative of the Indian government at the Indian border port of Petrapole today.

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was injured in a blast outside his home today, local media reported.

At least 25 people, including at least one police officer, were killed in Rio de Janeiro today in a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in the city's Jacarezinho neighborhood, according to civil police.

Germany today rejected a US proposal to waive patent protection for Covid-19 vaccines, saying the greatest constraints on production were not intellectual property but increasing capacity and ensuring quality.

The government has appointed Professor Alamgir Mohammad Sirajuddin, Prof AK Azad and Prof Mahmud Hasan as national professors.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) has finally completed its design and plan to implement its proposed underground cabling project to make the city free from overhead power cables.

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the health condition of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.

Chandana Bauri, wife of a daily wage earner, grabbed spotlight and social media attention in West Bengal after announcement of the assembly polls result on May 2.

Hopes that India’s deadly second wave of Covid-19 was about to peak were swept away on Thursday as it posted record daily infections and deaths and as the virus spread from cities to villages across the world’s second-most populous nation.

A Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) student was killed in a road crash in Sylhet yesterday.

More than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, called on the UN Security Council yesterday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help protect civilians peacefully protesting a military coup.

BNP's central vice-organising secretary and former parliamentarian of Sylhet-4 constituency Dilder Hossain Selim died at a private hospital in Sylhet city yesterday night.

Dr Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He does not even complete his medical training until next year.

Family members of Khaleda Zia went to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal’s house and gave an application to take her abroad for better treatment, Selima Islam, Khaleda's sister told The Daily Star.

Police today recovered the decomposed body of a child from a pond near Madbar Bazar in Jalkuri Taltola area of Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj.