Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman has said.

India on Wednesday banned 118 more Chinese apps as the backlash intensified against Beijing over an increasingly bitter border showdown between the giant neighbours.

The Dhaka University authorities have decided to impose a ban on celebrating rag day on the university campus.

The 5th BIMSTEC Summit, preceded by the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting, is proposed to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the first half of January 2021 -- subject to the improved Covid-19 situation.

Some 32.8 percent people involved in fishing in two coastal upazilas had no income during the government-imposed 65-day fishing ban till July 23 this year, says a report of Manusher Jonno Foundation.

The government-run mobile operator Teletalk Bangladesh Limited will provide internet bandwidth to the students of country’s public and private universities at nominal prices, to keep online educational activities going.

Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route resumed on a limited scale this morning after twelve hours of disruption since yesterday afternoon due to poor navigability.

Professor AQM Mahbub of Dhaka University has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj.

A Chinese university's guidelines warning women students not to wear "revealing" clothes on campus "to prevent arousing temptation" have whipped up online fury in the socially conservative country.

Speakers at a virtual discussion have said that the Election Commission hit the final nail in its coffin through its latest initiative to revise the Representation of the People Order (RPO), 1972.

A court in Narayanganj today granted bail to Khalilur Rahman -- one of three accused -- who confessed to raping and killing a class-V female student later found alive.

Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Saudi Arabia after the kingdom has said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stresses on the need to constitute all Awami League (AL) committees at the grassroots level where councils were held before the Covid-19 pandemic, aiming to make the party stronger.

A court in Rajbari today sentenced three people to death for raping a physician in Sadar upazila of the district in 2018.

Lebanon's prime minister designate was to kick off talks Wednesday on forming a crisis government within two weeks to begin enacting desperately needed reforms in the disaster-hit country.

The prosecution has completed placing arguments in support of framing charges against all 25 accused in a case filed over the murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad last year.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday hailed the show of unity by parties to a 2015 nuclear deal, after they defeated US efforts to restore international sanctions.

Fourteen alleged accomplices to the Islamist gunmen who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015 are on trial as the country recalls a dark episode that marked the onset of a wave of militant violence.

Speakers at a dialogue stressed that the government and non-government organisations must work together to ensure emergency reproductive healthcare and family planning services for women and adolescents.

The High Court today formed a three-member committee to enquire into the allegation of attempting to misappropriate money by changing the copyright and intellectual property rights of two books published on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.