Human Rights Watch blames Bangladesh for threatening to destroy the life-saving forests of the Sundarbans by building coal-fired power plants near the world’s largest mangrove forest.

T K Group has handed over 20 ventilator machines to five hospitals in Chattogram for treatment of Covid-19 patients.

A Dhaka places a suspended police sub-inspector and one of his accomplices on a four-day fresh remands in a case filed over possessing 11,600 pieces of yaba.

At least five new birds were seen for the first time in Bangladesh between May 21 and 22 this year.

India has reported a record daily surge in the number of new Covid-19 cases.

Former LGRD minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain has been tested positive for Covid-19.

Samsung Electronics is planning to shift much of its display production from China to its plant in southern Vietnam this year, state media says.

Former Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as her condition deteriorated at United Hospital in the city this morning.

32 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to the lockdown, have been sent back home through a checkpoint in Assam's Karimganj district, a senior police officer on the Indian side says.

Import of perishable goods through Benapole land port resumes after two and half months of closure following the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Government of China gives 97 percent duty-free access to a listed number of Bangladeshi products in the Chinese market.

Forty-five people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extolled yoga as a way of building a "protective shield" of immunity against the coronavirus, as his nation battles a surge in infections.

China has formally charged two Canadians with spying, officials said Friday, more than 18 months after they were arrested in a spat between Beijing and Ottawa.

An Italian fashion company, Teddy Group, commits to support Bangladesh during the coronavirus pandemic, saying that Bangladesh is a trusted partner.

A case has been filed against ten people including nine members of Narikelbaria union parishad (UP) for felling trees illegally in Bagharpara upazila of Jashore district.

China freed 10 Indian army personnel, who were taken captive after the clash between the two nations in Galwan on Monday, late last night following three days of negotiations, Indian media reports.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in today accepts the resignation of the minister responsible for relations with North Korea, as tensions with Pyongyang rise over the activities of defectors in the South and stalled diplomacy.

A total of 375 expatriate Bangladeshis -- including four doctors -- have so far died of coronavirus or with symptoms of the virus in Saudi Arabia since the outbreak of the pandemic, says Golam Moshi, Bangladesh ambassador to Riyad.

Oil prices rose around 1% on Friday, adding to gains in the previous session, after OPEC producers and allies promised to meet commitments on cutting supply and two major oil traders said demand was recovering well.