The government has asked everyone not to hold any mass gathering and outdoor celebration on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla calendar, to curb the spread of Covid-19.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from that country.

The Biden administration announced it would provide $235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut off by then-President Donald Trump.

Troops in Myanmar opened fire on pro-democracy protesters, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, the latest victims of a campaign to crush opposition to the ruling military junta, activists and media said.

Diplomats from major powers met separately with Iran and the United States to discuss how to bring both back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that Washington abandoned three years ago.

Italy recommended that AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 shot only be used on those over 60 and Britain that people under 30 should get an alternative, due to possible links between the vaccine and very rare cases of blood clots.

A total of 45 cases have been registered in various police stations in Brahmanbaria till tonight in connection with the mayhem Hefajat-e-Islam men unleashed in the district from March 26 to March 28.

Police today arrested a 70-year-old man in a case filed over raping a third-grader in Narail's Lohagara upazila.

Members of Counter Terrorism Unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive arrested two students on charge of spreading a video of a mother and her daughter on Facebook messenger this evening.

A recent study by the icddr,b revealed that the South African variant of the novel coronavirus is dominant in Dhaka.

The local administration of Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila has imposed section 144 in some areas of the upazila for two days starting from tomorrow at 6:00am due to a protest programme called by Hefajat-e-Islam.

Two cases were filed against Hefajat-e-Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque and 700 others with Sonargaon police station today.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said accidents on waterways are declining in the country because of changes in vessel designs, implementation of necessary measures and stronger monitoring.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has urged all countries of the world to work together to tackle the coronavirus pandemic that is affecting the life and livelihoods, health and economies of the world.

Ride-sharing service Uber has resumed operating cars as the government decided to allow public transport services in 11 major cities in the country from today amid the weeklong restrictions to curb coronavirus spread.

Three people, including a couple, were killed on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway as a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw today.

The Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Irrigation Project has been able to resume full-fledged supply of irrigation water for Irri-Boro cultivation in four south-western districts of the country from yesterday, following 11 days of stoppage of water supply.

No meeting or rally will be allowed before prayers and after munajat in mosques or any other place of worship, Religious Affairs Ministry said today in an emergency circular.

Bangladesh had signed an agreement with India's Serum Institute to get 50 lakh doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine every month.

The High Court has summoned 129 loan defaulters, including the much-talked about Proshanta Kumar Halder known as PK Halder, from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) to give their plans about refunding of the borrowed money.