A “lucky” mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan ($300,000) after hundreds of people vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits.

With 2,595 more people testing positive for Covid-19 yesterday, Bangladesh has now become sixth on the list of countries with most active cases.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose first term in office ended in part for health reasons, sparked fresh speculation yesterday about his well-being with an unexpected, hours-long hospital visit.

Suspected yaba smugglers fired at members of Border Guard Bangladesh near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila on Sunday night, BGB said in a press release.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged fresh Middle East peace talks after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise ties in a move praised by many Western governments, including Paris, but unanimously denounced by the Palestinians.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force along Shingnagar border in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj upazila on Sunday night.

South Korea yesterday warned of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hundreds more are reluctant to get tested.

Saudi Arabia has appointed 10 women in senior roles at Islam’s two holiest sites, authorities said Sunday, as the conservative petro-state seeks to boost female employment.

Some 68 Bangladeshi expatriates were sent back home from Abu Dhabi International Airport yesterday after they allegedly failed to meet necessary conditions for their immigration clearance.

China’s vaccine maker CanSino Biologics Inc has won a patent approval from Beijing for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate Ad5-nCOV, People’s Daily reported, citing documents from the country’s intellectual property regulator.

Water of some major rivers in the country’s northern region and some other districts is rising again, posing the risk of flooding many areas.

Around 105 Bangladeshi migrants, who faced exploitation in Vietnam, are finally flying home tomorrow in a chartered flight arranged by the Bangladesh government.

Health department officials have shut down at least 58 private clinics and diagnostic centres in different upazilas of Patuakhali on various charges, including operating without registration, non-renewal of registration and not having related facilities.

There is a common public perception that processes for government works are slow but they speed up when vested interests are involved. A recent enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Commission shows why it is so.

The country may see heavy rain and thunder today, while the sea will grow rough, as monsoon is active across the country, the Met office said.

Militant outfit JMB that struck terror across the country in 2005 has almost no strength to carry out any organised attack, but it is still a threat, counterterrorism officials believe.

When Tokuso Hamai saw the colorized version of an old black-and-white photo of a picnic held under cherry tree blossoms sometime before World War II, forgotten memories of family members, most of whom died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, came pouring out.

Bangladesh today officially enters the world’s financial community, a much required move for the new nation’s economic development. SA Karim,

Family of deceased Rabiul Biswas, who was allegedly put to death by being drowned in Rajbari’s Kalukhali upazila early Saturday, yesterday filed a case over the murder against some 10 people, but surprisingly without accusing any policemen.

The ruling Awami League leaders are trying to undermine BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s contributions to the independence of Bangladesh, alleged the BNP yesterday.