The country's apex trade body -- Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) -- demands an investigation into the “failure in widening the tax net by the NBR, although several hundred crore of taka was spent as consultancy fee for introducing the multiple VAT rate”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to launch an enquiry into corruption allegations against 30 Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and 64 members.

Rajshahi University authorities have suspended teacher Kazi Zahidur Rahman, who was arrested under the Digital Security Act for making "defamatory" comments about Awami League's deceased presidium member Mohammed Nasim.

Thirty-four people died from coronavirus infections, 3,504 were infected and 1,185 were recovered in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

Excessive rainfall in Meghalaya and Assam of India and Bangladesh’s north-eastern parts trigger flash floods in the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts.

India's tally of coronavirus cases passed half a million has with another record single-day surge of 18,552 cases, according to Indian health ministry data.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong.

The lone accused in Jubo League activist Mosaddekur Rahman murder case is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila.

Facebook Inc says it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company's policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians.

At least 30 shanties have been gutted in a fire that broke out at a slum in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area.

Redmond-based Microsoft announced on Friday that it is permanently closing nearly all of its physical stores around the world.

Mexico City’s chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards were killed in a dramatic assassination attempt that he has quickly blamed on one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

It is not certain that scientists will be able to create an effective vaccine against coronavirus that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic, but it could take a year before one were to be invented, the head of the World Health Organisation has said.

A Bangladeshi worker in Singapore who came close to death a few times defies the odds and has been discharged after five months from hospital.

With cross-border trade slowing down at Petrapole-Benapole border due to coronavirus, a consignment of nearly 1,100 tonnes of sponge iron has left for Bangladesh using the river route from Kolkata to Narayanganj for the first time, an official has said.

India has extended suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19.

South Korea has added Gilead's anti-viral drug remdesivir to its coronavirus treatment guidelines in its first revision of recommendations since the outbreak began and urged caution in the use of the steroid therapy dexamethasone.

China may run the second phase trial of coronavirus vaccine, which further evaluates the immunogenicity and safety of the vaccine in human body, in Bangladesh, said Director General (DG) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Abul Kalam Azad.

The north eastern state of Assam today announced a "total lockdown" in its capital city Guwahati from Monday for the next two weeks to cope with a sharp surge in new coronavirus patients in the last ten days.

Four men, allegedly members of a notorious kidnapping gang led by Abdul Hakim, have been killed in what police said was a gunfight with law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila.