Thirty-seven people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A prominent politician in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who tested positive for coronavirus infection, dies in a hospital in Chennai, becoming India's first sitting legislator to fall victim to the contagion.

Nahida Rahman Shumona, who is currently serving as director general of regional organisations wing at the foreign affairs ministry, has been appointed as the next high commissioner of Bangladesh to Brunei.

A shortage of passengers has forced Biman Bangladesh Airlines to cancel its scheduled flights for today and tomorrow on three domestic routes.

The US Senate confirms General Charles Brown as Air Force chief of staff, the first African American to ever lead one of the Pentagon's six-armed services.

Global economic growth could rebound next year -- but the number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to remain unchanged after a huge surge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warns.

India’s private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh has said.

Population-wide facemask use could push Covid-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a UK study.

Chinese video app TikTok’s new Chief Executive Kevin Mayer has told EU digital chief Thierry Breton he intends to play an active role fighting disinformation, an EU official said on Tuesday, as Breton pushes tech giants to step up their efforts against fake news.

Airlines are set to lose $84 billion as the coronavirus pandemic reduces revenue by half to mark the worst year in the sector’s history, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts.

Bangladesh has outright rejected a reported Malaysian plan to ask Dhaka to take in 269 Rohingyas who managed to land on its soil, with the foreign minister saying Dhaka was neither obligated nor willing to do so.

The toppling of a statue of a 17th century slave trader in the English port city of Bristol was hailed by some as a long-overdue reckoning with Britain’s imperalist past and denounced by others as a criminal act.

Laxmipur-2 MP Mohammad Shahid Islam, who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department of Kuwait on charges of human trafficking and money laundering, has denied the allegations brought against him.

Energised by the toppling of a monument to a slave trader in the English city of Bristol, protesters demanded on Tuesday the removal of a statue of 19th century British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from a college at Oxford University.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has decided to resume flight operations on the Dhaka-Jashore route from Thursday.

After Gopalganj farmer Nikhil, college student Imran from Jashore becomes second victim of alleged police brutality

Army patrols have been increased in Dhaka’s East Rajabazar as the area prepares to go under lockdown on an experimental basis at midnight.

The Department of Environment (DoE) fines two people Tk 50 lakh for illegally cutting and eventually destroying around 50,000 square feet of hills in Arefin Nagar and Foy’s Lake of Chattogram.

Infected with Covid-19 and later suffering a stroke, former health minister Mohammed Nasim is still in deep coma.

Covid-19 has taken away the life of another physician at Tejgaon in Dhaka.