A High Court bench yesterday observed that it is not possible to eradicate corruption and money laundering without cooperation from all.

At least 100 oil and gas tankers have been destroyed by fire in a “catastrophe” at Afghanistan’s biggest trade crossing with Iran, causing millions of dollars of losses, officials said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the Senate’s acquittal of former President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection was a reminder that democracy was fragile, and every American had a duty to defend the truth.

The United States and a WHO expert demanded more data from Beijing about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after a WHO mission to China struggled to make headway.

A Tripura Lok Sabha MP wants the Indian authorities to establish a new land custom station at Raishyabari along the Indo-Bangla border to make traditional Dumboor Mela accessible to Bangladeshi visitors.

Bangladesh recorded eight more Covid-19-related deaths and 326 fresh cases in 24 hours till yesterday morning, showing a small rise in infection rate.

Police yesterday arrested four people on charge of gang rape of a RMG worker in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital.

Ma Ching Rakhine, along with her family members, was forced to leave their ancestral home in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar around 10 years ago in the face of threats from Rohingya criminals.

The government has extended the closure of all educational institutions till February 28.

The UAE’s “Hope” probe sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said yesterday, days after the spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet’s orbit.

It was on July 29, 2011.

A Dhaka court placed 29 BNP men each on a two-day remand yesterday in connection with two cases filed over Saturday’s clash between BNP activists and police in front of the capital’s Jatiya Press Club.

The government is all set to relocate the fourth batch comprising around 3,500 Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar to Noakhali’s Bhasan Char today.

After spending almost all his life behind printing machines of different presses, now it is very hard for Abdul Aziz to stay at home in the evenings, when he used to go out for work.

When Md Izahar Ali became a newspaper hawker in Jashore, the price of a newspaper was only 10 paisa and some papers used to reach Jashore a day later.

The head of the EU’s disease control agency has warned that the novel coronavirus could last indefinitely even as global infections slowed by nearly half in the last month and vaccine rollouts gathered pace in parts of the world.

A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of the city’s Jatiya Press Club yesterday around noon during BNP’s protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman.

The dwellers of Thakurgaon town yesterday expressed fear and panic centering today’s municipality polls as the ruling Awami League candidate threatened voters to leave the town if they did not cast votes for “boat”.

Left-leaning Workers Party of Bangladesh, a major part of the ruling alliance, yesterday expressed disappointment at the country’s current election system, including the use of EVM, and over AL’s “softer stance” towards religious political parties, at the party’s central committee meeting held virtually yesterday.

With cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed behind bars for more than nine months, a group of citizens, including teachers and rights activists, staged demonstrations at the city’s Central Shaheed Minar yesterday demanding abolishment of the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA).