The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will keep its VAT offices open from April 12 to April 15 to facilitate submission of VAT returns for the month.

Indian and Pakistani troops in disputed Kashmir are engaged in their most frequent cross-border fighting of at least two years, official data shows, even as both nuclear-armed rivals battle surging coronavirus outbreaks.

Two minor girls were allegedly raped in Brahmanbaria and Jashore on Thursday, and two suspects were detained in these connections.

Some couple of hundred Rohingyas have allegedly gathered across the Myanmar border on the other side of Naf river to enter Bangladesh.

The Singapore government has promised food, wages, and treatment costs of Bangladeshi migrant workers who are in isolation in the country’s dormitories.

Falsehoods and rumours thrive during a crisis and even more when the crisis revolves around a threatening disease.

The first Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh commences its session on April 10, 1972, with a promise to give the new nation a

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the White House yesterday during a conference call with staff, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee to face Republican Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is today elected leader of the Awami League Parliamentary Party in the Bangladesh Constituent Assembly. Bangladesh Constituent Assembly will open tomorrow to begin a new chapter in the history of the new nation.

The government has appointed Additional Inspector General Benazir Ahmed as the new inspector general of police (IGP).

On top of the coronavirus crisis and the feared economic aftershock, Bangladesh is now facing pressure from different countries to take back undocumented Bangladeshis working there.

Human rights groups urged three Gulf Arab states yesterday to lift bans on free internet calls to help their large migrant workforces stay in touch during the coronavirus pandemic.

US Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over his mishandling of an outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced.

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog yesterday for the first time explicitly blamed Syria for toxic attacks in the country, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used sarin and chlorine three times in 2017.

She is a cardiac patient.

A Kurigram court yesterday sent two teenagers to a juvenile correction centre in connection with the rape of a second grader in the district’s Rowmari upazila on Tuesday.

During the days of quarantine, people get a huge amount of time to spend inside the house with their nearest and dearest ones.

Amid countrywide shutdown to prevent Covid-19, inhabitants of many remote hilly areas in several upazilas of Bandarban are facing a severe food shortage as authorities are yet to send any aid for these people.

The Taliban yesterday broke off talks with the Afghan government on a prisoner exchange, a main step in peace talks being brokered by the United States after it agreed on a troop withdrawal pact with the militants.

Two mentally challenged girls were raped in Bagerhat and Laxmipur on Monday.