The White House pushes back on concerns expressed by the World Health Organization (WHO) after a US health official said a coronavirus vaccine might be approved without completing full trials.

The nation is observing a one-day state of mourning in honour of former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.

A Black man was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies after he was stopped for a traffic violation while riding a bike, then ran from police, punched one officer and then “made a motion” toward a gun on the ground, authorities said.

A Tibetan-origin soldier with India's special forces was killed in the latest border showdown with Chinese troops on their contested Himalayan border, a Tibetan representative said Tuesday.

India’s foreign ministry has accused Chinese troops of taking “provocative actions” on the disputed Himalayan mountain border while commanders from both sides were holding talks on Monday to defuse tensions between the Asian giants.

In a fresh reshuffle in Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Shahbagh and Gulshan police stations got new officers-in-charge (OC) today.

Amid historic normalisation talks between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, American officials have spent a morning at an Abu Dhabi air base housing US stealth jets which the Gulf state hopes to buy despite Israeli objections.

A local Jubo League leader has been shot dead by unidentified men at Ching Kyaw Karbari Para of Bagmara area under Bandarban Sadar upazila.

A floating hospital, jointly set up by Bidyanondo Foundation and Bangladesh Coast Guard, started its journey by providing treatment to underprivileged people of Banishanta Polli in Dacope upazila of Khulna today.

The High Court today questioned the legality of the Public Service Commission's (PSC) recommendation of appointing 5,054 senior staff nurses.

A neighbour torched the houses of a late freedom fighter and his younger brother in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila last night.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today said online editions of newspapers will be registered on a priority basis.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh would provide 50,000 tonnes of fertilizer to Nepal responding to a call by her Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli as the landlocked country was exposed to a critical shortage of the crucial agriculture input.

Supreme Court lawyer SM Munir has been appointed as additional attorney general for moving cases on behalf of the state.

The High Court today directed the judge of special tribunal-2 of Dhaka to conduct an inquiry into the allegation that an innocent day labourer, Md Liton, is serving a jail sentence instead of a convicted man of the same name in Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila.

Bangladesh has established minimum requirements for the production of non-medical fabric masks for community use, taking an important step towards safe and regulated production of masks and providing essential guidelines to local manufacturers, the RMG sector and NGOs to join the fight against Covid-19.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approves a project for upgrading the Sylhet-Tamabil highway into four-lane, including a separate slow-moving vehicular traffic lane (SMVT).

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today said the recent directive of the Ministry of Information to register all online news portals and online editions of national newspapers and television channels would ensure full government control and interference by it over the media.

A court in Chattogram today sent six Jamaat-e-Islami men to jail in connection with a case filed over vandalising the photos of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Thailand’s recently appointed finance minister, Predee Daochai, has resigned as the government struggles to pull Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy out of a slump caused by the coronavirus pandemic.