Social media platforms have been flooded with criticisms after the release of Netflix's recent movie “Extraction” set in Bangladesh. The movie showed distorted images of Bangladesh, Bengali language, and the capital city Dhaka. In a recent report, the daily Prothom Alo mentioned that the “hype” of Bangladeshi movie-lovers about this film skyrocketed and people have been disheartened after watching this film. I strongly believe that the Bangladesh government should seek explanations and take legal action about the misrepresentation of Bangladesh and especially the distortion of Bengali language in said film.

Bangladesh has sent a small group of Rohingyas, who entered the country a couple of days ago from Myanmar in small boats, to Bhashan Char island.

The prisons authorities are set to free 385 more convicted prisoners today as part of government’s early release plan to ease accommodation crisis and minimise Covid-19 risk in the crowded prisons.

Leading smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has been accused of collecting browser data from their smartphone users, even on ‘Incognito Mode’.

Convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam's lawyers have prepared a 26-page review petition containing 14 grounds for seeking reconsideration of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Two people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Five Indian security personnel, including a colonel and a major, were killed in an encounter at a village in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, which also saw the elimination of two terrorists, officials said today.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali.

The Economist, a leading source of analyses on international business and world affairs, has listed Bangladesh as the 9th strongest economy in its report on the financial strength of 66 emerging economies in the wake of the Covid-19 fallout.

One hundred and thirteen police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 across the country since yesterday noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

The government has decided to arrange a special chartered flight to bring back Bangladeshi citizens stranded in the United Kingdom following the suspension of international flights between Dhaka and London in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

North Korea fires multiple gunshots towards the South in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula, prompting South Korean troops to fire back, Seoul's military say.

A prison riot has left at least 47 dead and 75 wounded in western Venezuela, a country where NGOs and inmates' families regularly denounce unsanitary conditions, violence and overcrowding behind bars.

Fifty-three days after his disappearance, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been found in Benapole.

Three journalists are arrested in Narsingdi in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for publishing a quote of a police official without talking to him.

Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds name their newborn son partly as a tribute to two of the intensive care doctors who they say have saved the British premier’s life as he battled Covid-19 complications.

Private universities seek a stimulus package from the government to shore them up amid closure of these institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Inmates at a prison in Manaus, a Brazilian city deep in the Amazon that has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, have taken seven prison guards hostage, the local prison authority tells Reuters, underlining the endemic violence that has plagued the region’s jails in recent years.

A female assistant commissioner (AC) of Jamalpur Sadar and six others are diagnosed to be positive for the coronavirus, raising the total confirmed cases in the district to 74.

Since the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, the multinational footwear and accessory manufacturing company Bata, through its ‘Bata Heroes’ initiative, has been working with its long-standing foundations, charitable partners, government officials, and other organisations to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in countries as diverse as India, Czech Republic, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Colombia, Italy, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Chile, Peru, Thailand, Malaysia.