Rohingyas have started rebuilding homes as Monday’s fire burned thousands of their shanties at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar that also left 11 people dead and hundreds injured.

Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 70 lakh to Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal (BD) Ltd and Tk 20 lakh to JAAGO Foundation Trust through Grassroots Human Security Projects.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) has pledged US$ 1 million from its emergency fund for the relief efforts in the Rohingya camps following Monday's fire. It said further US$ 20 million is required to respond to the most urgent needs.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque today said MBBS admission test will be taken in compliance with the health guidelines.

The High Court today cleared the way for holding upcoming MBBS admission test on April 2.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put emphasis on constructing necessary infrastructures to reap the highest benefits from the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) signed between Bangladesh and Bhutan.

The government has decided to observe a one-minute symbolic “blackout” on the night of March 25 throughout the country marking Genocide Day.

A mobile court has fined a dealer Tk 50,000 for black marketing coarse flour meant for open market sale (OMS) in Thakurgaon.

A man was shot dead in broad daylight in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan area this morning.

Police arrested a 70-year-old man for raping a child in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.

A Dhaka tribunal today took cognisance of charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed over circulating “indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information” about some ministers, lawmakers and top Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.

Dhaka-7 lawmaker and Awami League leader Haji Salim has tested positive for Covid-19.

A consortium of private Japanese firms and a Japanese state entity paid rent on a multi-million dollar hotel and office development that ultimately went to Myanmar’s defence ministry, six company and government officials told Reuters.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has removed one of its three visible bunkers set up unlawfully on no man’s land in Sylhet’s Gojukata border, under Beanibazar upazila, after a flag meeting with Border Guard Bangladesh held yesterday afternoon.

The world history recorded the dark night of March 25, 1971 as a rare case when the Pakistani military launched a sudden brutal assault on unarmed, sleeping Bengali civilians. A Pakistani military officer, in a vivid manner, has described the scene.

AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major US COVID-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticized the drugmaker for using “outdated information” to show how well the immunization worked.

Myanmar activists plan more anti-coup protests, including a silent strike with many businesses due to close and calls for people to stay home, after a seven-year-old girl was killed in her home when security forces opened fire during a crackdown in Mandalay.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects for retaining power were uncertain after exit polls in the country’s fourth national election in two years projected yet another stalemate.

Hong Kong and Macau said they were suspending the use of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine after being informed of a packaging problem with a batch of vials.

US President Joe Biden urged Congress to swiftly pass gun control laws and may take action on his own to stop mass violence, the White House said, a day after the second deadly mass shooting in a week.