The 17th edition of an international tourism fair -- US-Bangla Airlines Dhaka Travel Mart 2020 -- which was scheduled to begin in the capital from March 12, is postponed due to growing threat of the lethal COVID-19 infection.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a slight increase in power and water tariffs was unlikely to cause people sufferings.

A case was filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention act against a teacher of Rajshahi University on Thursday for allegedly sexually harassing his students.

Rab claims to have arrested seven alleged members of the banned militant group Ansar al Islam from separate raids in Dhaka and Pabna districts early.

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All 112 people, including the 23 from Bangladesh, who are housed at a quarantine facility in India after they were evacuated from Wuhan in China, have tested negative for coronavirus.

The United States signs a historic deal with Taliban insurgents that can pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war there.

Opposing the government’s move to hike the tariffs of power and water, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader says it will only inflict immense sufferings on people already struggling to cope with the increased prices of essentials.

Container transport between Chattogram port and 18 private inland container depots (ICDs) resumed after nearly three and a half days as drivers and helpers of prime mover-trailers called off their work abstention.

Thirty-three female workers of a wig factory in Nilphamari are hospitalised after they fell ill while on duty.

Pro-BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami lawyers’ panel win president and general secretary posts in Dhaka Bar Association (DBA) election.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy jumped to 888, of whom 21 have died, officials say.

South Korea reports its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases as concerns grow of a possible epidemic in the United States and the World Health Organization raises its risk alert to its highest level.

The Indian state of Meghalaya imposed a curfew in capital Shillong and suspended mobile internet services in six districts after a person died in clashes over the controversial citizenship law, officials said today.

Iran's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has reached 43, a health official told state TV yesterday, adding that the number of infected people across the country has reached 593.

Sheikh Rehana and Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter and granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, pay homage to the Father of the Nation in Kolkata’s Baker Hostel of Maolana Azad College.

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In an interview with Vanity Fair, director Rian Johnson has said, "I don't know if I should say this or not, Apple... they let you use iPhones in movies but — and this is very pivotal if you're ever watching a mystery movie — bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera."

Six passengers of a private car including its driver are killed and one is injured as it hits a tree on the side of the road in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi.

The situation in riot-torn parts of northeast Delhi remained peaceful this morning with residents gradually resuming the daily chores after coming to terms with the damage in four days of violence and arson earlier this week.