The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said yesterday that Qatar’s ruler is invited to the bloc’s summit meeting next week amid efforts to heal rifts between Doha and a Saudi-led alliance.

Four persons, including a five-year-old child, were killed in an accident on Sylhet-Zakiganj road in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early yesterday.

Four public engineering universities have decided in principle to form a cluster and hold a uniform admission test.

A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for Covid-19 more than a week after receiving the Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday.

The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, yesterday urged countries to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk everywhere, not just in rich nations.

Vehicular communication through Pabna is set to be hampered as its transport owners and workers are likely to enforce an indefinite strike from this morning in protest of extortion and harassment by their counterparts in Shahzadpur upazila on the highway to Sirajganj.

Three members of a family were killed and another man was critically injured when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran into a mail train at the Shashongachha level crossing in Cumilla yesterday morning.

Bangladesh recorded 22 more deaths from Covid-19 and 1,235 new infections in 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.

A joint venture company that includes China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been awarded the Cox’s Bazar airport runway expansion work for Tk 1,568.86 crore.

The High Court yesterday issued an injunction restraining electronic, print and social media, including Facebook and YouTube, from broadcasting and publishing statements, interviews and conversations of fugitive convicts and accused under trial until further notice.

The import policy for the shipping period January-June, 1973, announced by Commerce Minister MR Siddiqui today envisages import of goods worth Tk 219 crore.

Shaikh Abdul Aziz is a visionary leader who has contributed greatly to technological advancements in Bangladesh’s ICT sector and a pioneer in bringing disruptive technology to improve and facilitate living standards.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to confiscate two flats and six acres of immovable properties of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder in a money laundering case.

The European Union yesterday demanded that China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and several other jailed reporters, lawyers and human rights champions.

Two journalists of The Daily Star got Best Reporting Award 2020 announced by Bangladesh Crime Reporters Association (CRAB) yesterday.

Algeria’s army has retrieved a “slice of the ransom” cash paid out to free hostages held by “terrorist groups” in the troubled Sahel region, the defence ministry has said.

Lutfar Sheikh, the former president of Chaluabari union Jubo League in Sariakandi upazila and also known to be a notorious robber, was arrested on Monday in Bogura.

Thirty people died of Covid-19 in the country in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, while India’s health ministry reported the first eight cases of the mutated coronavirus strain in eight United Kingdom returnees.

Moscow yesterday expanded a list of German officials who are banned from entering Russia in response to EU sanctions that the bloc imposed over Russian cyber attacks on the German parliament.

The World Health Organization warned that pandemics far more deadly than Covid-19 may lie ahead, as South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from yesterday after a surge in coronavirus cases.