Bangladesh will hand over 10,000 vials of injectable anti-viral Remdesivir to India on Thursday, officials have said.

Saudi Arabia is considering barring overseas pilgrims from the annual haj for the second year running as COVID-19 cases rise globally and worries grow about the emergence of new variants, two sources familiar with the matter said today.

A Cambodian court sentenced five environmental activists for up to 20 months in jail today for incitement to commit crimes, over their attempts to organise a march to the prime minister's residence to protest the filling-in of a city lake.

Because the mayhem that Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh carried out across the country on May 5, 2013 was such a “big incident”, it took around 8-years to analyse the footage, sort out the evidence and take the testimony, police said today.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested five members of a drug trafficking ring from the capital’s Basila area with 77,000 yaba tablets on Tuesday.

As India continues to struggle to contain a severe second wave of Covid-19, a top scientific advisor to the government today said a third wave was "inevitable" and the authorities should be prepared for it.

Facebook Inc's (FB.O) oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former US President Donald Trump but gave the company six months to determine a “proportionate response” going forward, a verdict that may chart how social media will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.

The deans' committee of Dhaka University today recommended holding final examinations -- of all academic years -- online from July 1 if the current Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh does not improve by June.

Water transport workers demonstrated in Dhaka today demanding immediate resumption of launch services on all routes across the country in compliance with health guidelines and payment of all arrears including salaries and bonuses by May 7.

Wisdom teeth are a non-professional term for third molars (all four) discovered in the permanent dentition. These teeth are the last teeth to be developed in a grownup or adult person.

The government has decided to resume public transport services within districts from tomorrow, on condition of maintaining proper Covid-19 health safety guidelines.

India accounted for 46% of the new Covid-19 cases recorded worldwide last week and one in four of deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Counterterrorism officials claimed to have arrested two members of the banned militant group “Neo-JMB” from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area yesterday.

A delegation of Hefajat-e-Islam yesterday placed a four-point demand including the release of “Alem-ulema and general religious-minded people” who were arrested in connection with three days of violence surrounding the organisation’s protest of Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s visit in late March.

A man accused in four cases was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Khulna’s Sonagazi upazila today.

With the number of daily coronavirus cases on the decline, most of the general and ICU beds at the Covid-19 dedicated hospitals across the country remains vacant.

Police have arrested a man on charge of raping a teenage girl in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila today.

A delegation of Hefajat-e Islam held a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at his residence in the capital to negotiate the ongoing crackdown on its top leaders following the recent violent activities of the Qawmi-madrasa based organisation.

Government employees were attacked and vehicles were set on fire to make the March 28 strike successful as per directives of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Joint Secretary General Mamunul Hoque.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) will not only endanger human, animal and plant health but will also threaten food security and the progress achieved in SDGs.