A third gender family filed a case against a group of village arbitrators who they claimed forced them to leave their inherited house at Charghatina village in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.

Bangladesh Bank has asked banks to continue operating on a limited scale until the ongoing restrictions on movement -- to curb Covid-19 transmission -- ends on May 5.

The government today started procurement of paddy directly from farmers at Tk 27 per kg.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday laid emphasis on the strict implementation of the Paris Agreement, saying it is the only way to check global emissions and thereby global warming.

A man who sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion at a building in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on Friday died at a hospital in Dhaka last night.

The wife of Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a cargo flight on Monday afternoon.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, who tested positive for Covid-19 for the second time on April 24, has been admitted to Evercare Hospital.

Fifteen of the 300 Bangladeshis who were stuck in India's Petrapole land port returned home this morning through Benapole check-post.

Bangladesh’s Dr Saleemul Huq, director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and professor of the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) has been named in Reuters Hot List.

Air Crash Investigation(s), a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises, yesterday released their latest episode chronicling the March 12, 2018 US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crash in Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The district administration in Rajshahi imposed a restriction on selling watermelons by weight today as the fruits were being sold for high prices in the city than in previous years.

With effect from April 29 and until May 5, the airlines of Bangladesh, Bahrain, China, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Singapore, Qatar and UAE -- those already approved to operate flights under special considerations since April 17 -- shall continue their operation to and from Dhaka, the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh said in a release.

Police have arrested a man and his wife for killing his 60-year-old mother over a family feud at Mongla in Bagerhat today.

The government has suspended administering the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Why did the vaccination campaign suddenly stumble? What is responsible for the failure to import vaccines from India? Is it possible to give the second dose to all who have taken the first dose with the current stock?

A 50-year-old rickshaw puller died most likely of heat stroke in Barishal city’s Sadar Road this morning.

As night falls, volunteers of Tohura Aziz Foundation, a volunteer organisation in Pabna rush with packets of food to make sure those in need and those who will be fasting during this month of Ramadan can get their ‘Sehri’.

Two Spanish journalists who went missing on Monday in Burkina Faso have been murdered, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today.

Police have arrested Brahmanbaria Ashuganj unit’s Hefajat-e-Islam and Imam Parishad General Secretary Mufti Obaidullah for his alleged involvement in violence in Ashuganj during March 28’s countrywide hartal enforced by Hefajat.

A couple in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district tied the knot wearing PPE kits after the groom tested positive for coronavirus.

On April 16, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) -- and part-producer of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine called Covishield -- tweeted to the President of the United States Joe Biden, asking to lift the embargo on raw material exports to vaccine makers outside the United States. His tweet and subsequent pleading by many global leaders have sent ripples across the United States, with an increasing number of US lawmakers joining calls for Biden to approve exports of vaccines, raw materials, and waive IP patents on vaccines. Biden finally agreed, approving export of raw materials and agreeing to share 60 million Covid-19 vaccines with the developing world. However, the cost of months of delay to prioritise Biden’s “America First” foreign policy, in light of India’s Covid-19 woes, provides grim reminders of the costs of American Exceptionalism.