The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect user data including phone numbers and locations.

Taiwan rolled out a newly redesigned passport on Monday that gives greater prominence to the island’s day-to-day name, aiming to avoid confusion with China amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty.

A legal notice was served on the government today requesting it to reopen all the educational institutions including schools and colleges across the country from January 16.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps have been taken to ensure adequate fire safety measures in all the 68 prisons throughout the country and to save the lives of prisoners from fire related accidents.

A Dhaka court will decide on February 8 whether it will accept the probe report submitted by police clearing Mohammad Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, from an arms case.

The first shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is likely to reach Bangladesh between January 21 and 25.

Twitter’s German-listed shares slumped 8% on the first trading day after it permanently suspended US President Donald Trump’s account late on Friday.

Awami League leaders and activists have been working relentlessly to ensure win for the party’s mayoral candidate Sheikh Abdur Rahman in the Mongla Port municipality polls otherwise considered as a BNP-dominated municipality.

Former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon has asked, “What is the market value of Taposh’s reputation?”

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

Expressing concern and resentment over the growing tendency of blaming victims of rape, torture and murder in real life and on social media, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today demanded that such acts be brought under the law.

A man has killed three people and wounded four others in a series of dramatic shootings that started on Chicago's South Side and ended with the gunman's death in a shootout with police in a car park north of the city.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said it has been possible for the Awami League government to establish Bangladesh as a role model of development in the world since it has been in power for a long time.

Two separate cases were filed against former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon for making “defamatory remarks” against the current mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.

The results of Higher Secondary Certificate exams will be published by January 28, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam has said.

A housewife was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband in Dhaka’s Pallabi area this morning.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee and five others in a case filed for embezzlement of Tk 1.27 crore from Islamic Foundation’s Zakat Fund.

Police today picked up a security guard of the building in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area, where a 17-year-old O-level student was raped before her death on Thursday, for interrogation.

Jordanian Senate President and former prime minister Faisal Akif Al-Fayez has highly appreciated Bangladesh’s over 5 percent GDP growth even during pandemic under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The H5N8 strain of bird flu has spread to Delhi and Maharashtra, pushing the total number of Indian states hit by the disease to nine.