The European Commission will extend EU powers to potentially block Covid-19 vaccine exports to Britain and other areas with much higher vaccination rates, and to cover instances of companies backloading contracted supplies, EU officials said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has got vaccinated against the Covid-19 with a vaccine and is feeling well, RIA said yesterday citing the Kremlin, as authorities seek to encourage more Russians to take the shot.

Border Guard Bangladesh jawans took up position on the Gojukata border in Sylhet’s Beanibazar yesterday morning shortly after India’s Border Security Force set up bunkers in the no-man’s land between the countries.

Security forces at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday recovered 1,415 pieces of yaba from a Saudi-bound passenger.

Authorities in Delhi and Mumbai today banned public celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colour, next week amidst rising cases of Covid-19, our Delhi correspondent reports.

“All the gold and money saved for my two daughters’ marriage has been taken away. I was saving money for them as my husband could not work. Now how will I live?” said a teary-eyed Jharna Rani Das (55) of Noagaon village in Shalla upazila of Sunamganj.

Considering the coronavirus situation, the Dhaka Wasa Board has decided not to increase the price of water for now.

Unesco Director-General Audrey Azoulay today said the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman defended universal values freedom, human rights and dignity.

Britain’s Prince Harry will become the first chief impact officer of BetterUp Inc, a San Francisco-based firm that provides employee coaching and mental health assistance, the company said today.

The government today rescheduled the public holiday for the upcoming Shab-e-Barat to March 30 instead of March 29 since the holiday for the religious event is determined based on the sighting of the new moon.

The lawyers of Shariatpur Bar Association today observed a “work abstention” programme in all the courts, expressing their dissatisfaction towards Sunday's judgement in the case filed over the killing of Public Prosecutor Habibur Rahman and his brother 19 years ago.

Hearing his name called out, Sinial Da paused chopping wood at the sawmill at Nilphamari’s Domar upazila town and squinted at the direction of the caller around 10:30am yesterday.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to release regular currency notes, commemorative coins and silver commemorative notes of Taka 50 marking the Golden Jubilee of Independence.

The Indian government has been granted time till April 9 by the Lok Sabha and July 9 by the Rajya Sabha to frame rules for grant of citizenship under the amended citizenship law, parliament was told today.

Several activists of the Pragatishil Chhatra Jote were injured after alleged members of Chhatra League attacked their protest program against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in front of the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) on Dhaka University campus today.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier today said Bangladesh has undergone an impressive development and vibrant democracy is prevailing in the country with high economic growth.

“If you send me with my husband; this time, he will kill me,” Hashi Begum pleaded during a mediation process involving her family members and her husband Rubel Hossain.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the government is celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Independence keeping people and freedom fighters “away”.

Authorities have so far recovered 11 bodies from the ruins at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar in the aftermath of the deadly fires that burned several thousand shanties yesterday.

Globally renowned vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty composed a new raag named “Maitree” to commemorate the celebrations of Bangabandhu’s birth centenary and as an ode to India-Bangladesh friendship.