Serum Institute of India will sell the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Bangladesh at $4 a dose, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, about 47% more than India will pay for its inoculation campaign.

Within a span of about 24 hours, three House Democrats have announced they tested positive for COVID-19, prompting concern that last week’s insurrection at the Capitol has also turned into a super-spreader event threatening the health of lawmakers and their staffs.

The High Court has observed that a handful of corrupt police officials became errant and their higher authorities have miserably failed to hold them accountable, for which the higher police authorities cannot absolve responsibility.

The Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram region fined two Cumilla construction firms for razing hills a month after a local lawmaker issued a threat to a DoE official for investigating the onslaught on environment.

A man was killed in a clash between followers of two councillor candidates at Mogoltuli Mogpukur Par area in Chattogram tonight.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to ensure maximum transparency in the procurement, collection and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

An Irish inquiry into alarming death rates among babies at church-run homes makes clear that unmarried mothers faced a “stifling, oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture” for decades, the country’s children’s minister said today.

Indian automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd is keen on establishing an assembling plant for agro-machineries in Bangladesh.

Kuwaiti ministers handed in their resignations to the prime minister today, the government communications office (CGC) said, days after lawmakers submitted a motion asking to question the premier over issues including the makeup of the cabinet.

Europe’s push into electric cars is gathering speed — despite the pandemic.

A Dhaka court today directed police to publish an advertisement in two Bangla national dailies asking sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haq to surrender before it by February 11 in the case filed over the killing of blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy in August 2015.

Bangladesh has called for extending the preparatory period to five years -- from 2021 to 2026 -- for its graduation from the status of a Least Developed Country (LDC).

A six-month-old baby’s ear and genitals were burnt with acid in Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila over a dispute with a neighbour.

The police chiefs of Bangladesh and India today decided to establish designated nodal points for enhancing joint work against terrorist entities, including global terrorist groups as well as other fugitives.

A woman was beaten to death in Jashore sadar's Balia Vekutia village last night over throwing a tissue at the family graveyard.

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore today said no effort should be spared to keep schools open or to prioritise them in reopening plans as they enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic with cases continuing to soar around the world.

A leading Israeli human rights group has begun describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” regime, using an explosive term that the country’s leaders and their supporters vehemently reject.

A court in Pirojpur today sentenced three men to death for killing a primary school teacher in 2017.

The energy regulator has decided to hold public hearings to re-fix the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on January 14.

A federal judge in Indiana late on Monday blocked the execution of convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in the United States, on mental health grounds, based on evidence that she was unable to understand the government’s rationale for her execution.