Chevron Bangladesh, a subsidiary of American multinational energy corporation Chevron, distributed 8,800 relief packs to communities living around Chevron’s gas fields in the country during the coronavirus crisis.

The US Department of State has issued a Level-4 travel advisory for Bangladesh, warning US citizens against travelling to the country amid restrictions due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

A British minister and members of the UK parliament have paid their homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of National Mourning Day and the 45th martyrdom anniversary of the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh on August 15, at an event organised by the Bangladesh High Commission in London.

Senior diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has been appointed the next Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, succeeding incumbent Riva Das Ganguly

Shipra Debnath in a video message posted on social media has said that they would keep the dream of slain Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan alive with their YouTube channel "Just Go".

A C-130J transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force -- carrying 71 repatriated Bangladeshi nationals from Lebanon -- has returned home after handing over humanitarian and relief assistance to the victims of the horrific explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on August 4, according to a press release of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR).

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has reportedly been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, according to Indian media reports.

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has been put on ventilator support after undergoing brain surgery at the Army Research and Referral hospital in New Delhi where he was admitted after testing positive for Covid-19.

The Rapid Action Battalion’s legal and media wing director Lt Col Ashique Billah has said Stamford University student Shipra Debnath will not stop her fight for justice.

The Indian federal government has sought approval of the West Bengal state government to allow the return of 2,680 Indians stranded in Bangladesh since the coronavirus lockdown in March.

Bangladesh has expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives in the plane crash in Kozhikode, India, and conveyed its sympathies to the families of the deceased.

“I am really afraid. I don’t want to fly again,” says 28-year-old Muhammad Shafaf, who was returning home from Dubai on board the Air India Express flight IX 1344 which skidded off the runway amid heavy rains, hurtling down a sharp slope and breaking in two, leaving 18 people dead and scores injured, at Calicut International Airport in the southern Indian city of Kozhikode.

Arrest warrants have been issued against Pradeep Kumar Shaha, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, and eight others in a case filed with the police station in connection with the killing of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Four. That is the current number of Bangladeshi nationals who died in the Beirut explosion last night. Beyond that number, however, lies the story of migrant workers who leave Bangladesh to seek better fortune elsewhere.

Police have cordoned off Chowhatta point area in Sylhet city after finding a bomb-like object on a motorcycle parked near the road.

Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari, the largest in the country established in 1870, has been displaying rail engines from the bygone era at its exhibition yard on its premises, in a bid to preserve the glorious history of railway.

The Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at Paharpur area in Badalgachhi upazila of Naogaon district, has lost its shine within only three years of completion of projects for its conservation and development.

In this video story, we tried to find how artists wrote, composed and released songs from home in the midst of a pandemic that halted all normal activity

Engraved on the copperplate “Chandrapurasasana” (royal charter relating to Chandrapur), are inscription of King Srichandra (also referred as Srichandradeva) -- the second ruler of south-eastern Bengal’s Chandra dynasty -- which refers to millennium-old ancient mathas (monasteries or cloisters) in Srihatta (in present day Sylhet division), where students used to come for higher learning from scholars.

“Let’s not talk about how I am now passing every moment, how I am struggling every second. I will put up that story for some other time. My only crime is I am a Bengali,” said Rayhan Kabir in a message to a friend before his arrest in Malaysia. Meanwhile, nine days have passed since his arrest. However, for Rayhan's family, time seems to stand still.