Google says it will start paying some publishers for their news content, in a move that could pave the way for reduced tensions between the internet search giant and the beleaguered news industry.

A field hospital -- jointly set up by Bidyanondo Foundation and Chattogram Metropolitan Police -- is going to be inaugurated tomorrow amid increasing number of Covid-19 patients in the port city.

Kamal Uddin alias Haji Kamal, suspected leader of a human trafficking gang, has been shown arrested today in two cases filed over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to implement a 25 percent hike inwater price that it fixed earlier.

A tenth grader was allegedly raped by a youth in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.6 years in 2019, as compared to 72.3 years in 2018, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Sixty-four people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

The government will convert a temporary ordinance into a permanent law in order to continue operating virtual court systems after the Covid-19 pandemic, said Law Minister Anisul Huq.

MA Kashem, an eminent industrialist and patron of education, philanthropist, a dynamic social worker and one of the promoters and founder members of North South University (NSU), has been elected unanimously as the chairman of Board of Trustees (BOT) of North South University recently.

Rescue workers today recovered one more body from the Buriganga river, taking the death toll in the launch capsize to 34.

The coronavirus pandemic is reversing progress on ending child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), jeopardising the futures of millions of girls, a senior UN official says.

The final results of the 38th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations will be published today.

A day after being banned by India, Chinese App TikTok’s India unit today said it has not shared any information on Indian users with any foreign government, including the Chinese government.

Two persons are killed and four others are taken ill as benzimidazole gas leaks at a pharmaceutical company in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential "pandemic virus", a study says, although experts say there is no imminent threat.

Seven people including the owner of Moyur-2 -- the launch that hit another in Buriganga river yesterday and caused the latter to capsize -- have been sued over the deaths of 32 people.

The Directorate General of Health Services has requested Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital and five other hospitals to take necessary measures to provide Covid-19 treatment to the members of Dhaka Bar Association (DBA) and their families.

China's parliament passes national security legislation for Hong Kong, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony's way of life since it returned to Chinese rule almost exactly 23 years ago.

Bangladesh wants more raw materials from India to increase production for both countries during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tracing contacts of people with coronavirus infections is the most important step in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and countries that are failing to do so have no excuse, the World Health Organization chief said on Monday.