Biman Bangladesh Airlines cancelled all its domestic flights due to lack of passengers yesterday, a day after the government reopened public transport amid escalation of Covid-19 cases.

A young humpback whale that swam up one of Canada’s major rivers and has been exploring the waters off Montreal for a few days was likely led astray while on a hunting trip, authorities have said.

Bangladesh will participate in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Georgetown, Guyana, informs Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad after a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak today.

Increased antibiotics use in combating the Covid-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization said Monday.

When Tariqul Islam, a resident of the capital’s Kathalbagan area, received the copy of his apartment’s electricity bill for March, he was caught off guard.

The US negotiator on Afghanistan voiced optimism Monday that the Taliban and government would begin peace talks and said President Donald Trump could pull US troops ahead of schedule if all goes well.

Local authorities in Siberia have declared a state of emergency after 20,000 litres of diesel fuel seeped into a river sparking concerns from environmentalists.

State-owned Chinese firms bought at least three cargoes of U.S. soybeans on Monday, even as sources in China said the government had told them to halt purchases after Washington said it would eliminate special treatment for Hong Kong to punish Beijing.

The French revelled in a return to cafe terraces yesterday as Europe emerges from its darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic, which has shifted its centre to Latin America where pressure is mounting on fragile healthcare systems.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in ‘separate gunfights’ with the BGB and Rab in Bandarban and Gazipur yesterday.

Countries across Europe took bolder steps in easing coronavirus lockdowns, with schools, pubs, parks and pools reopening in places, while in Latin America the outbreak grew more dire with infections passing the one million mark.

Regional rights bodies across Asia and the Middle East fear millions of migrants -- if repatriated home without compensation amid the coronavirus pandemic -- may face indebtedness and their families may slip into poverty.

The Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested an alleged ringleader of the human trafficking gang that kidnapped and murdered some of the 26 Bangladeshi workers in Libya on Thursday.

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Representatives of 40 Tongi-based trade unions call on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at his official

Amid the coronavirus scare, a lack of buyers due to inadequate measures for marketing and transportation leaves mango growers worried.

A senior United Arab Emirates official said yesterday that any unilateral move by Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank would be a serious setback for the Middle East peace process.

Former Jubo League leader Aslam Fakir, who escaped hanging on presidential clemency in 2015, has been arrested again in connection with another murder case.

Tariqul Islam is one of the migrants who have miraculously survived a mass shooting by family members of a human trafficker in the Libyan desert town of Mizdah on Wednesday that claimed 30 lives, including 26 Bangladeshis.

The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million yesterday as Brazil registered another record surge in daily infections and divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic.