Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals and Serum Institute of India (SII) today announced an agreement in principle for a cooperation in developing a Covid-19 vaccine.

A Bangladeshi expatriate has been arrested in Libya on allegation of kidnapping another Bangladeshi expatriate in the North African country recently.

A Cox's Bazar court today placed former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and two other accused, in a case filed over killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, on a fresh three-day remand.

Four people are jailed for damaging hills at Bargaon village of Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj.

The High Court yesterday declared the election of Pubali Bank Limited’s board of directors -- held on July 30 during its 37th annual general meeting (AGM) -- illegal.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni says her ministry is working on the education system during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has described Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as “an icon in the struggle for the independence of Bangladesh, and a personification of the principles of freedom and equity”.

A father and his son die of electrocution in a pond where its owner allegedly set up an electric trap to protect fishes from thieves in Nandigram upazila of Bogura.

Rajshahi University teacher Kazi Zahidur Rahman was freed on bail on Thursday evening, after an imprisonment of 11 weeks for his Facebook post allegedly involving late Awami League veteran leader Mohammed Nasim.

Police recovered the bodies of a couple from an NGO office/residence in Dhaka's Nakhalpara area this morning.

3G and 4G mobile services at the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar resumed today. Sources in the telecom companies said the BTRC sent the instruction to them at 10am to restore the services. The decision to lift the restrictions -- imposed over a year ago -- was made on Sunday at the meeting of a national taskforce chaired by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

A woman and her three-year-old son were found dead at their house in Madarganj upazila of the district on Wednesday.

Three children drowned in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram on Wednesday.

Police recovered the body of a youth from a waterbody in Naogaon’s Atrai upazila on Wednesday, a day after he went missing from a relative’s house in Manda upazila of same district.

Members of Lalmonirhat district Rover Scout are working relentlessly to protect Char Falimari village from erosion by the Dharla river.

Torrential rain coupled with the recent unusual high tide inundated about 65,000 hectares of croplands in Patuakhali, where about 200 millimetres of rainfall was recorded in the last seven days.

Nigerian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp today marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

South Korea has pledged to provide $800,000 worth of test kits to help curb the further spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

A Russian national has reportedly died of alcohol poisoning at a private hospital in Rajshahi, police said.

New details on Bangladeshi MP Mohammed Shahid Islam’s dealings and businesses in Kuwait have surfaced, a daily Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas reported according to Gulf News.