Two people were killed after being run over by a train on two unmanned level crossings in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila yesterday.

Britain has become the first Western nation to approve a vaccine for Covid-19, with the United States and other countries expected to follow soon and begin mass immunization drives.

Cyclone Burevi hit Sri Lanka overnight, rattling the island nation but leaving it relatively unscathed on its way to southern India, officials said yesterday.

Two local courts in Sirajganj and Gazipur yesterday sent two arrestees to jail over the rape of a schoolgirl and a woman respectively.

A senior Republican official in the US state of Georgia said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud were fueling threats against poll workers.

Workers Party yesterday at a virtual press briefing called upon all patriotic and democratic forces to get united to resist the “evil powers” who are opposing the construction of Bangabandhu’s sculpture and misusing religion for their personal gain.

Thirty-five people died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Pakistan President ZA Bhutto has said in Islamabad that it would be unwise for Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

After earning handsome profits last year, onion farmer Kawsar Mollah from Mothpara village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila targeted cultivating onions on 10 bighas of land this year.

A bust of Madhusudan Dey in front of Dhaka University’s Madhur Canteen -- who was the founder of the canteen and martyred during the Liberation War -- was found partly damaged on Wednesday night.

A group of clerics, mostly leaders of the Hefajat-e Islam, has come up with a “fatwa” declaring building of idols or sculptures of any person or animal is forbidden in Islam.

Moscow will open its new Covid-19 vaccination centres tomorrow and the first people to receive the shot will be teachers, doctors and social workers, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said yesterday.

The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic and in the throes of a surge in cases, registered more than 2,500 deaths in a 24-hour period, the highest total since late April, Johns Hopkins University said.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Baul singer Rita Dewan for “hurting religious sentiments”.

This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded and could even top the record set in 2016, the United Nations said yesterday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has imposed a ban on organising assemblies, rallies, mass gatherings, and use of loudspeakers at these programmes in the capital without prior permission.

A Chinese space probe yesterday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

It was Tk 12.27 crore illegal wealth mentioned in a graft case filed against online casino “kingpin” Selim Prodhan.

Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.

Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.