The European Union and Germany today promised assistance to India to help fight the second wave of Covid-19 that threatens to overwhelm the country’s healthcare infrastructure.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has extended opening hours for markets, shops and shopping malls in the capital till 9:00pm.

With only around 4.62 lakh tonnes of grains in the public food stocks, one of the lowest in years, the government has moved to procure paddy, rice and wheat from local farmers and millers at prices higher than last year's.

Bangladesh Reference Institute for Chemical Measurement (BRICM), set up by the government for the development of chemical metrology, has developed a spray a nasal spray which they say ‘can kill’ the Covid-19 virus on contact.

Four members of a family, including a woman and children, were allegedly assaulted by ticket sellers of a ferry at Shimulia terminal in Munshiganj today.

A massive fire broke out at the Union Parishad building in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila this morning causing damage to property worth Tk 50 lakh.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia tested positive for Coronavirus again after she underwent another test yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Barrister Ziaur Rahman passed away with Covid-19 at a hospital in Dhaka last night.

Turkey "entirely rejects" US President Joe Biden's recognition of the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, minutes after Biden's declaration.

Eight years have passed since the biggest industrial accident in the country – Rana Plaza collapse – took 1,138 lives and left over 2,500 injured. The survivors are still carrying immense trauma.

Five Bangladeshis have been apprehended by the BSF at Jhorpara outpost in West Bengal's Nadia district, the border guarding force said today.

A new convening committee of the Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh (OCAB), a platform of Dhaka-based journalists working for foreign media outlets, was announced on Saturday.

Terming Hefajat-e Islam an extremist and militant group, top 551 alam-ulema of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat today called upon the government to ban the Qawmi-madrasa based organisation.

Overwhelmed hospitals in India begged for oxygen supplies on Saturday as the country's coronavirus infections soared again overnight in a "tsunami" of disease, setting a new world record for cases for the third consecutive day.

Southeast Asian leaders said they had agreed on a plan with Myanmar's junta chief on Saturday to end the crisis in the violence-hit nation, but he did not explicitly respond to demands to halt the killing of civilian protesters.

Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Hefajat-e-Islam's Nayed-e-Ameer Ahmad Abdul Quader from Dhaka’s Agargaon area this evening.

A worker was killed and six others injured after the roof of the main gate of an under construction pump station on Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) project collapsed at Shimrail area of Naranyanganj Sadar upazila today.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent a fresh Covid-19 test today to know whether she has recovered as she has been doing well with no visible symptom, said her personal physician Mohammad Al Mamun.

Leader of different political parties, included in Hefajat-e-Islam, have tried to materialise their party agenda under the banner of the Islamist group and hatched conspiracies to topple the government in 2013 and March this year, investigators have said.

A massive fire broke out at Kamalganj Lawachara Reserve Forest in Moulvibazar today.