Remittance hit an all-time high of $21.74 billion in 2020 as migrant workers continued to send home a massive amount of money using formal channels.

A Dhaka court today ordered police to confiscate properties of Mohin Uddin, a fugitive accused in a case filed over the killing of Taslima Begum Renu by a mob in the capital's Badda in July 2019.

Twenty-one people were killed and at least 20 others injured when the roof of a shelter at a cremation ground collapsed in Muradnagar district of Uttar Pradesh in India today.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that tougher lockdown restrictions were probably on the way as Covid-19 cases keep rising, but that schools were safe places and children should continue to attend where permitted.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines today announced to resume its flights to Saudi Arabia from January 6.

An Israeli official has dismissed as “nonsense” an allegation by the Iranian foreign minister that Israel was trying to trick the United States into waging war on Iran.

The World Health Organization today welcomed India's approval of two Covid-19 vaccines of Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech and said it would help "strengthen" its fight against the pandemic in South East Asia.

Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun passed away this evening.

Stressing the need for becoming self-sufficient in food production, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque today warned that it would be difficult to procure food even with money available if there is a food crisis or famine due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Lawmakers from treasury and opposition bench and representatives of various organisations today called for setting an example by enforcing the death penalty for rape.

Cyber police have arrested a youth from Dhaka’s Mugda area on charge of child pornography for allegedly blackmailing an Indian minor by threatening to leak her videos online.

Vandals have targeted the homes of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with graffiti, fake blood and a pig's head, US media said.

A Dhaka court today again asked the ACC to submit by February 16 the probe reports of two graft cases filed against Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and several others over misappropriating Tk 4.22 crore from two banks.

The High Court today directed the Department of Environment (DoE) to lodge a case against 30 washing plants in Keraniganj area in 30 days for polluting the water of Buriganga river in the area.

State Minister for Civil Aviation Md Mahbub Ali today said that no decision has been taken to suspend air communication with any country.

Twenty-seven people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The birth of a baby is a wonderful and very complex process. Many physical and emotional changes occur for both mother and baby. A baby must make many physical adjustments to life outside the mother's body. Leaving the uterus means that a baby can no longer depend on the mother's blood supply and placenta for important body functions. Before birth, the baby depends on functions from the mother which include breathing, eating, elimination of waste, and immunity.

India's drugs regulator today approved Serum Institute’s Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the country’s first indigenous jab, for restricted emergency use, paving the way for their roll-out soon.

Seven people, including a newborn, were killed when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked police personnel to stop cybercrimes alongside money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism, drug abuse, gang activities and repression of women and children.