The flood situation in the north and central districts of Manikganj and Lalmonirhat has been deteriorating as water levels in Jamuna and Dharla river is continuing to rise in the two districts.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has asked all Bangladeshi missions abroad to serve people with a smile.

More than 2.4 million people are estimated to be affected by flooding, including around 1.3 million children in Bangladesh, Unicef said.

Two people were killed in an alleged shootout with Rab members in Dhaka’s Diabari area early today.

Twenty-four children drowned in floodwater in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts in the last month.

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.

Eminent danseuse and choreographer Amala Shankar, who played a key role in taking Indian dance forms to the world, died of cardiac arrest in sleep at her residence in Kolkata today at the age of 101, her family says.

Two alleged drug traders including a union parishad (UP) member are killed during what law enforcers claim to be a gunfight with police in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has constituted 12 single-judge High Court benches for hearing and disposing of cases during the ongoing annual vacation.

Another record single-day number of 49,310 cases of Covid-19 took India’s total tally of the contagion patients to 12,87,945, Indian Health Ministry data said today.

With an eye mainly on China, India has amended rules imposing restrictions on public procurement from bidders of countries with which it shares land border, citing grounds of defence and national security, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

China orders the United States to close its consulate in the city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat response to being told to shut its consulate in Houston earlier, as relations between the two world powers deteriorates further.

India says bidders from bordering countries eyeing government contracts would need prior registration and security clearances, a move seen as New Delhi’s latest effort to counter China following a border clash between the two nations.

The Science Building of Alipur Rahmania School and College in Hathazari of Chattogram was inaugurated today.

The head of the World Health Organization says that reported comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from its work in fighting the coronavirus.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has distributed relief materials to nearly 2,000 families suffering from food crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic in three upazilas -- Kaptai, Kawkhali and Sadar --of Rangamati.

Reading through three issues of the English version of the graphic novel series “Mujib”, based on the life of the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I was able to go back in time a hundred years when Bangabandhu was born. The colorful animation of the graphic novel showed me how an ordinary boy transformed himself into the voice of a nation. These graphic novels are based on the unfinished memoir written by Bangabandhu himself, while he was in prison serving his term as a political prisoner.

Dhaka has sought Saudi support to create a voluntary Organisation of Islamic Countries Covid-19 response and recovery fund by willing member countries.

The two newly elected members of parliament -- Begum Sahadara Mannan from Bogura-1 constituency and Md Shahin Chaklader from Jashore-6 -- of the Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad take oath at the Parliament Complex.

Brazil has provided about 3,000 Covid-19 test kits through the Brazilian Cooperation Agency to Bangladesh as a gesture of solidarity and collaboration between the two countries.