Thirty-five 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.

Nearly four lakh people in the flood affected regions of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts will be spending Eid-ul-Azha in despair this year.

The Malaysian authorities’ arrest of a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was featured in an Al Jazeera documentary was clear retaliation for his criticism of government policies towards migrants, Human Rights Watch says.

Moderna Inc says its experimental Covid-19 vaccine induced a robust immune response and protected against infection in a study on monkeys.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has pledged to donate 100,000 euro from prize money to flood relief efforts in Bangladesh and India.

Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder have sought permission from the Supreme Court to challenge the High Court order that fined them for seeking anticipatory bail from abroad in a case filed for allegedly abducting, torturing and opening fire at two top Exim Bank officials over a loan permission.

Four police personnel and a staff of Pallabi Police Station have been injured after a ‘weight machine’ that they seized during a drive exploded inside the police station.

An elderly man has been buried inside his house in Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila as their village is completely submerged under floodwater with no dry surface left for burial.

Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder have sought permission from the Supreme Court to challenge a High Court order that fined them for seeking anticipatory bail from abroad.

Domestic air-connectivity between the capital and beach town Cox’s Bazar will be restored on Thursday after more than four months of suspension due to coronavirus pandemic.

Saudi Arabia has posted a deficit of 109.2 billion riyals ($29.12 billion) in the second quarter this year as low oil prices hurt revenues, according to a finance ministry report.

The United States has said one civilian was killed and three were injured in a US air strike in Somalia in February, the second such admission since it launched quarterly reports on civilian casualties in its Africa operations.

Two students drowned after a boat they were on capsized in Kadamali Lake under Mugda Manda area in the capital this afternoon.

The South Korean government has provided 1,800 emergency food and hygiene packages, as well as 3,000 personal protective equipment (PPEs) and medical supplies, to vulnerable communities, including frontline nurses, in the capital’s Mugda area who have been hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Police rescue a newborn -- abducted and sold a day after birth -- from Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali and arrested three people in this connection.

Global air traffic will not return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic until at least 2024, the International Air Transport Association said on Tuesday.

Locals of Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila formed a human chain today demanding arrest and punishment of the criminals involved in raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl after confining her parents.

Ferry services in Shimulia-Kathalbari route have been disrupted after the terminal and the approach road partially eroded this noon.

COVID 19 pandemic is a global reality of the year 2020 that had ceased the educational activities during the beginning of the lock down phase worldwide. However most of the educational institutions all over the world already broke the spell of the initial perception and inertia due to the pandemic and resumed their academic activities through online platforms.

The West Bengal government today announced complete lockdown throughout the state twice a week, including all Sundays, in August in order to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission.