South Korea has reported 323 new cases of the coronavirus as health officials prepare to tighten distancing restrictions in the greater capital area.

A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy has issued urgent calls for help, saying it is stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants who it has been unable to bring ashore.

The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree today formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a US-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries.

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain Ibn Ali (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), will be observed across the country tomorrow with due reverence and religious solemnity.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today took three accused into their custody, on a four-day remand, for interrogation in a case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Bangladesh has sought a post-Covid-19 extension of UK’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility to Bangladeshi products until 2030 to boost trade and greater support to low-carbon climate-resilient development strategies for a faster post-pandemic SDGs recovery.

Never thought I will have to write an obituary so fast. It was just the other day that I had a long chat with him over the phone.

Thirty-two people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Australia has provided Bangladesh Armed Forces with five tonnes of personnel protection equipment (PPE) under a defence cooperation programme to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Lawmaker of Rajshahi-3 constituency Md Ayeen Uddin has said that there is "nothing more effective" than beating.

The education ministry has urged people of the country not to pay heed to any rumour over HSC and equivalent examinations.

A Bangladeshi woman and her daughter were found dead in an apartment at Jleeb-AL-Shuyoukh in Kuwait on Friday.

The government is going to reinstate the previous bus fare from September 1, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

Pakistan’s flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos on Friday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by heavy rain as authorities said at least 23 people had been killed in downpours the previous day.

A local influential leader of ruling Awami League was hacked to death by miscreants in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia this morning.

Five people were killed and another was injured as a bus rammed a CNG-run three-wheeler that they were on in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet this morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a suspected female smuggler with 57 gold bars weighing 9.2 kilograms in Jashore’s Benapole last night.

Authorities of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj detained a prisoner this afternoon, 10 hours after he escaped from Mitford Hospital where he had been receiving treatment.

Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) has returned the body of a Bangladeshi citizen who was shot dead by them on Kushtia border 15 days back.

Children and young people are far less likely than adults to get severe cases of Covid-19 infection, and death from the pandemic disease among children is exceptionally rare, according to UK research published on Thursday.