Five hundred Indian nationals who were stranded for nearly five months due to coronavirus outbreak left Bangladesh through Benapole land port -- between yesterday morning and this noon.

Launch service on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes resumed this morning, 24 hours after suspension due to bad weather.

On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps.

Recalling the barbaric carnage, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today alleged that the then PM Khaleda Zia staged the August 21, 2004 grenade attack.

Mexico will receive at least 2,000 doses of Russia's potential Covid-19 vaccine, dubbed 'Sputnik V', to test among its population, a senior Mexican government official says.

A seventh-grader rape victim is abducted allegedly by her rapist and his family at Ulipur upazila of Kurigram.

A Kurigram court summons the case diary of the assault and attempted murder case filed by journalist Ariful Islam Regan against former deputy commissioner of Kurigram Sultana Pervin and three of her colleagues.

The officers-in-charge of Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf police stations, both having taken up their posts earlier this month, were transferred for “internal reasons,” a high-placed police official has said.

A female activist was killed and three others wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, security and health sources say.

The government has chalked out a mammoth Tk 19,280 crore project proposal to provide daily school meals to all 1.41 crore government primary school students in a bid to increase attendance and reduce dropouts.

President Donald Trump has said US companies were involved in many prospects in Iraq’s oil business, as Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi declared his country open for American business and investment.

Speakers at a webinar have underscored the need for the young generation to know the accurate history of how the killers of Bangabandhu were rehabilitated and the actions of the-then government after 1975.

A high-level committee formed to probe the murder of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan has been given seven more working days to complete the investigation.

Container handling was hampered at a jetty of Chattogram port today after a container vessel hit a quayside gantry crane, damaging it partially.

Mass testing of Russia's first potential Covid-19 vaccine to get domestic regulatory approval will involve more than 40,000 people and will be overseen by a foreign research body when it starts next week, backers of the project said on Thursday.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has pressed charges against nine members of banned outfit Ansar-al-Islam in a case filed over the killing of Jagannath University student and secular online activist Nazim Uddin Samad.

The issues of Teesta river water-sharing, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) were not raised during Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said.

The United Nations has recognised four Bangladeshi youths as “Real Life Heroes” to acknowledge their contribution to humanitarian services. The honours were given by the UN marking the World Humanitarian Day on August 19.

Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, has been charged with defrauding Trump supporters in a campaign to help build his signature wall along the US-Mexico border, prosecutors say.

Iran has displayed a surface-to-surface ballistic missile that has a range of 1,400 kilometres and a new cruise missile, ignoring US demands that Tehran halt its missile programme.