Malaysia has declined the review plea for the extension of a remand order issued against Bangladeshi Md Rayhan Kabir.

The Malaysian authorities’ arrest of a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was featured in an Al Jazeera documentary was clear retaliation for his criticism of government policies towards migrants, Human Rights Watch says.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has pledged to donate 100,000 euro from prize money to flood relief efforts in Bangladesh and India.

The transshipment of Indian goods will open a new horizon of Indo-Bangla relations, says State Minister for Shipping, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury.

Internationally acclaimed historian Professor Abul Bashar Mosarraf Hossain of Rajshahi University (RU) passed away at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital in Dhaka, Prof Fazlul Haque, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at RU, says.

Speakers at a virtual seminar today urged the government to scrap the speedy energy supply act, officially known as the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2010, terming it “unconstitutional”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tells the parliament that the seat of independent MP Mohammad Shahid Islam will be vacant if it is found that he is a citizen of Kuwait.

Kuwait’s Central Agency for Public Tenders has cancelled the extension of contract for cleaning services at Kuwait International Airport and its facilities, as the contract was concluded with the company of the Bangladeshi MP accused of money laundering and visa trading, the Arab Times reports.

Authorities in North Macedonia found 144 Bangladeshis in a truck near the country’s southern border with Greece, during a routine check on a regional road, police say.

Veteran journalist Faruk Quazi is no more. He passed away in his sleep at 8am today at his Elephant Road residence. He was 71.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is all set to start operating direct flights from Dhaka to Toronto and from there to New York by Air Canada from October this year.

Some 200 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives during the coronavirus pandemic are repatriated to Vietnam.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shoot dead an alleged Bangladeshi cattle smuggler at Shamsernagar border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the biggest achievement of Awami League through its sacrifices and endurance is the liberation of Bangladesh.

Election Commission extends the tenure of two-year-long temporary National Identification (NID) for indefinite period.

Renowned journalist and cultural personality Kamal Lohani, who tested Covid-19 positive, dies at a city hospital at the age of 86.

32 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to the lockdown, have been sent back home through a checkpoint in Assam's Karimganj district, a senior police officer on the Indian side says.

Maritime ports of Mongla, Payra, Chattogramand Cox’s Bazar have been advised to lower local cautionary signal number to three as cyclone Amphan has weakened into a land depression, said a Met office bulletin.

The super cyclonic storm "Amphan" is laying over west-central Bay and adjoining area and moving north and northeast-wards.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra are advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal no. one (r) one as the depression over southeast Bay and adjoining Andaman sea moved slightly west-northwestwards and is likely to intensify.