Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni yesterday, the third reporter in the violence-plagued country to be killed in the last two months.

Day-to-day life in many districts is being hampered due to the bone-chilling cold and daily wage-earners are the ones suffering most.

A doctor of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in the port city early yesterday morning.

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday accepted the charge sheet in Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,312 with 32 more deaths in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.

Most of 22 relief cranes of Bangladesh Railway (BR) are either outdated or broken, causing difficulties in carrying out salvage operations after train accidents.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman renews his call today to all irrespective of their ideological or political affiliations to dedicate themselves to the great task of rebuilding the country into a truly Shonar Bangla drawing inspiration from the sacrifice of the martyrs of the Liberation Struggle.

R.R. Cunninghame, high commissioner of New Zealand in Bangladesh, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono

The government is considering bringing informal grassroots service providers into the labour migration sector under a framework to tackle fraudulence.

The pro-Awami League teachers of Blue Panel of Dhaka University won the DU Teachers’ Association (Duta) polls without contest, as no other panel submitted nomination form by the stipulated time.

Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the northeastern Philippines as heavy rain across the country left at least eight people dead, authorities said yesterday.

The battle against Covid-19 has delivered not just a vaccine at record speed but also a spike in demand for the billions of syringes needed to administer it.

Bitter cold coupled with fog has been disrupting people’s daily lives across the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said process was on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.

US President-elect Joe Biden told Mexico’s president Saturday he was committed to addressing the root causes of poor Latino migrants crossing the border into America.

Disease threatens to worsen an already desperate situation in Fiji, an official warned yesterday, where thousands of lives have been devastated in the wake of the deadly super cyclone Yasa.

British and EU negotiators had dug in their heels and were each demanding more concessions from the other as post-Brexit trade talks dragged on into yesterday, deadlocked on fishing rights.

European countries started banning flights coming from the UK yesterday as government in London warned that a potent new strain of the virus was “out of control”.

Stressing the importance of remittance in the country economy, Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad yesterday said Bangladesh needs to send more skilled workers abroad to hold on the surge in remittance inflow.

Former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Nurul Haque Nur has been sued for “making derogatory remarks on the government and several government institutions”.