Japan will provide 329 million US dollars (equivalent to 35 billion yen) to Bangladesh as grant to help the country combat coronavirus.

Bangladeshi Md Rayhan Kabir will be deported once the Attorney General's Chambers has completed looking into the investigation papers of the case, says Malaysian Immigration director-general Khairul Dzaimee Daud.

A lighter vessel carrying 950 tonnes of raw sugar capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Bhasanchar this morning.

Detectives have pressed charges against eight people, including JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque has urged banks to come forward with easy loans to help create entrepreneurs in both agriculture and non-agriculture sectors.

At least 17 people have drowned as a trawler capsized in a haor in Madan upazila of Netrakona.

Criminal Investigation Department has submitted a petition to show three Awami League leaders of Faridpur town unit arrested in a Tk 2,000-crore money laundering case.

Thirty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has congratulated International Labour Organisation (ILO) for achieving universal ratification on the child labour convention, thus giving all children legal protection against the worst forms of child labour.

Liakat Ali, in-charge of Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre, Pradip Kumar, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, and seven others have been sued in a case filed over the death of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, who was shot dead at a check-post in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf upazila on Friday.

A former Google engineer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets before joining Uber’s effort to build robotic vehicles for its ride-hailing service.

Two Bangladeshi nationals died and at least 69 were injured, including 21 members of Bangladesh Navy, in the Beirut explosion.

An entire port engulfed in fire, ships ablaze at sea and crumbling buildings: the site of the massive blast in Beirut's harbour area resembled a post-nuclear landscape.

At least six people have been killed as Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain along the US East Coast after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it caused floods and fires that displaced dozens of people.

Lebanese rescue workers search for survivors in the mangled wreckage of buildings and investigators blame negligence for a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 113 people.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni today said that the educational institutions which do not have their own lands will not be given the monthly pay order (MPO) facility in future.

City Bank has introduced a dual currency debit card, joining a growing list of lenders that are offering the facility to lure in the progressively global-minded customers in the country that are averse to using credit cards.

SS Steel, a newly listed company, plans to acquire Saleh Steel Industries with the view to staking a larger claim on the Tk 55,000 crore-industry, in yet another indication of the impending recovery of the Bangladesh economy from the fallout of the global coronavirus pandemic.

A huge explosion near the centre of Beirut has killed at least 10 people and injured hundreds, sending shockwaves across the Lebanese capital, shattering glass in people's homes and causing apartment balconies to collapse.

For the first time ever, all 187 member states in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ratified the convention on child labour, a commitment to stop child labour worldwide.