Barrister Rumeen Farhana, a BNP lawmaker from reserved seat, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Approximately 70 percent of surveyed migrants, who returned from abroad between February and June, are unemployed, according to a study conducted on returnees in 12 districts of the country.

Private Industry and Investment Adviser to the Prime Minister Salman F Rahman on Wednesday said Bangladesh will attain double digit next year in the global ranking of ease of doing business.

Alphabet Inc's Google's Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California.

The Supreme Court today summoned Advocate Syed Mamun Mahbub to appear before it on August 20 for posting a derogatory status about Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Facebook.

A Dhaka court has placed three Awami League leaders of Faridpur town unit on two-day remand each in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

A team of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrests five members of “Neo JMB” from Sylhet in connection with the recent explosion in Dhaka’s Paltan area.

A man died after falling into the elevator shaft of a high-rise building in Dhaka’s Malibagh area this morning.

The Covid-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on the education and training of young people and Bangladesh is no exception, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said.

Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with the first three months of the year, when the coronavirus lockdown was tightest, the largest contraction reported by any major economy so far, official figures have showed.

A Cox's Bazar court today placed seven people, including four policemen, on seven-day remand each in a case filed over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

At least three people are killed as Indian police open fire on a mob that went on a rampage in Bengaluru, resenting a communally sensitive social media post allegedly put out by a kin of opposition Congress party lawmaker.

Daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality and they will have equal coparcenary (joint heirship) rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, India’s Supreme Court has ruled.

Lebanon has announced a record daily number of over 300 Covid-19 infections and seven deaths from the virus as the country grapples with the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion that rocked the capital and overwhelmed hospitals.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picks Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and giving him a partner well prepared to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump.

Extensive crop fields in the southern part of Jashore’s Sharsha upazila have become submerged under water from India’s Ichamati River.

Court orders issued for specific periods, including those of bail and stay, will remain in force till complete reopening of the High Court, according to a notification issued by Supreme Court administration.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has reportedly been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, according to Indian media reports.

To commemorate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum (BIPF) organised a webinar on Covid-19 and Indigenous Peoples of Bangladesh.

Angry and grieving demonstrators read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last week’s explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of Lebanon’s president and other officials they blame for the tragedy.