Bangladesh Bank yesterday approved one more commercial bank, taking the total number of banks in the country to 61.

Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said yesterday.

Valiant freedom fighter Captain Akram Ahmed Bir Uttam died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday morning.

Israel-based broadcaster i24NEWS and Abu Dhabi Media, a public conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, announced yesterday a content sharing arrangement after the Jewish state and UAE normalised ties.

Fifteen eminent citizens, mostly cultural personalities, yesterday demanded immediate arrest of culprits who recently vandalised an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia.

Since the Covid-19 outbreak, French care home resident Colette Dupas’s contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call, or through a window.

Eight inmates, aged between 13 and 15, fled from Jashore juvenile correction centre early yesterday.

Cybercrime is expected to cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year, up more than 50 percent since 2018, a research report said yesterday.

A satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in last week’s assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards told local media on Sunday night.

Javed Iqbal lived in Oman for 11 years and returned home to Swandip in 2016 with a plan to settle down in the country.

Venezuelans voted yesterday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and further weaken his US-backed opposition rival Juan Guaido, who is leading a boycott of the polls he calls a fraud.

For the third day in a row, the United States on Saturday notched a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, reaching nearly 230,000 new infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said yesterday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections.

Rab members yesterday detained 14 Rohingyas and two alleged human traffickers from Habibur Rahman Chattar of Sylhet’s Dakshin Surma upazila.

Police arrested a man early yesterday on charge of raping a minor girl in Cox’s Bazar and another man was arrested on Saturday allegedly for raping his daughters in Khagrachhari.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat in Dhaka.

A member of Parbatya Chattogram Jubo Samity was shot dead at his home in Baghaichari upazila early yesterday

Associates of lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim had pre-emptively torn down parts of an illegal structure that he had allegedly built ahead of yesterday’s eviction drive by the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority in Old Dhaka’s Shoari Ghat.

More than 30,000 government websites of the Bangladesh National Portal were inaccessible since yesterday morning due to an electrical fault in the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited server.

The International Press Institute (IPI) and five South Asian media organisations on Thursday launched a cross-border cooperation to highlight attacks on journalists and create public awareness and influence policymakers to end impunity for crimes against journalists in the region.