Some succumb and surrender to the debilitating circumstances into which they are born. Others rise above their situation and find new horizons. A rare few, like 19-year-old Atif Asad, endeavour to lift those around them on their upward journey.

A potential shotgun wedding to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) for TikTok’s US operations provoked an outcry on Chinese social media as well as criticism from a prominent Chinese investor in TikTok owner ByteDance.

Body of an alleged drug peddler has been recovered by locals, a day after he jumped into the Karatoya River to avoid police arrest.

An alleged drug dealer is killed in firing by criminals during a raid in Sylhet’s Zakiganj upazila early today, police say.

Salma Qadir, CEO of Rights & Sight for Children (RSC) and Country Coordinator of Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI) for Bangladesh, passed away on August 2 at 11:00pm at her Dhaka home after suffering from motor neuron disease for a short time. She was only 57.

Producer Md Barkatullah, one of the pillars of BTV during its golden era, has passed away at 11:30am today at Green Life Medical College and Hospital.

Karnaphuli Tunnel Project has achieved a "breakthrough" with the completion of the left line despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Thirty 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), said during a briefing today.

A virtual court in Dhaka today allowed detectives to deposit Tk 4.23 lakh to Bangladesh Bank, seized from an employee of JKG Health Care -- accused in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Engr AM Shaukat Ali, Director of Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL), passed away on Thursday night at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 80 and had been suffering from multiple old age complications.

Three people were killed as a bus hit a pickup van on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka early today.

The Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at Paharpur area in Badalgachhi upazila of Naogaon district, has lost its shine within only three years of completion of projects for its conservation and development.

Piling on top of the pre-pandemic stock of jobless population, economists apprehend the newly unemployed resulting from firms severely scaling back on their activities due to the pandemic may lead to serious social pressure on the country’s economy.

Indian Health Ministry came out with fresh guidelines on Sunday night for all international air passengers and those using land borders to enter the country.

Two persons have been killed in a clash between two factions of Awami League in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali district.

Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol in the northwestern state of Punjab, officials say.

The death toll in Latin America from the novel coronavirus has passed 200,000, underlining the region’s status as one of the global epicenters of the pandemic that is testing governments to the limit.

The Indian home ministry has sought three more months’ time to frame the rules of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed by parliament in December last year, officials said today.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has tested negative for Covid-19 and was discharged from Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai today after 23 days of treatment, his son Abhishek Bachchan tweeted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses anti-liberation forces of assassinating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, saying that the people of Bangladesh had lost “all potentials” after this brutal killing.