The World Health Organization, which has faced criticism over its early handling of the coronavirus crisis, on Thursday launched an independent review into the global response to the pandemic.

Father of Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim, whose Regent Hospital issued several thousand fake Covid-19 test reports, dies from coronavirus infection.

Sahara Khatun, former home minister and a presidium member of Awami League, breathed her last while undergoing treatment at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand last night.

Germany’s finance and foreign ministers have declined an invitation to take part in a Washington gathering of ministers from the G7 group of large industrial countries, Der Spiegel magazine reports.

The Brazilian Press Association has filed a criminal complaint to the Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro, after he took off his mask in a televised interview in which he announced he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

A total 577 Bangladeshi citizens have been repatriated from Saudi Arabia and Qatar on two separate special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangla Airlines.

The search resumed on Thursday for former "Glee" star Naya Rivera who is feared to have drowned while boating on a lake north of Los Angeles, authorities says.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed asks officers-in-charge (OCs) across the country to inform him directly if any superior officer demands a bribe from them.

A group of applicants of the 38th sub-inspector recruitment examination today demanded to fill up the vacant posts of SI from the waiting list.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain President Donald Trump’s financial records but prevented - at least for now - the Democratic-led House of Representatives from obtaining similar documents.

British culture minister Oliver Dowden will hold a news conference, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, as the government is expected to set out the next stages in its easing of the coronavirus lockdown.

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim says the government won’t allow import of sacrificial animals on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.

A former leader of the banned East Bengal Communist Party was shot dead by unknown criminals in broad daylight in Monirampur upazila of Jashore this afternoon.

Rohingya activists have urged the host countries to stop hatred against them and treat them as human beings, saying the refugees, who have fled genocidal acts in Myanmar, are now facing a higher level of xenophobia amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On July 3, eleven Bangladeshi job-seekers returned from Vietnam. All of them had business visas.

Bangladesh Bank today asked all banks to freeze the accounts Regent Group chairman Md Shahed and accounts of his business establishments for 30 days.

Longtime Seoul City Mayor Park Won-soon has been found dead, police say, after his daughter reported him missing saying he had left a message “like a will”.

In a major setback for many Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to return to their workplaces in Italy, the European country has put restriction on entry of passengers from Bangladesh into its territory till October 5.

A physician of Dhaka Medical College Hospital is killed when a battery-run three-wheeler hit his motorbike on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway under Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.

The Ministry of Education has not taken any decision yet to provide any kind of “auto promotion” to any students to promote them into the next classes.