The drug administration authorities did not find anything harmful in the Napa Syrup samples that could cause the deaths of the two siblings in Brahmanbaria.

Saudi Arabia has shown interest in investing more than $10 billion in 15 large- and small-scale projects in Bangladesh.

Secondary schools are set to resume full-fledged in-person classes today – two years after the Covid-19-induced closures, online classes and limited scale operations.

An elderly man was beaten to death allegedly by his neighbours over a trivial matter in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj yesterday morning.

A Sylhet court yesterday fixed March 30 for the delivery of the verdict in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks in Istanbul yesterday, seeking a rapprochement between the neighbouring Nato members to the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Congress’s disastrous showing in the assembly elections to five states has added to a series of poor results, raising serious questions about the road ahead for India’s oldest party.

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V. Mantytskiy has slammed a section of Bangladesh media for what he said  “biased approach” in their coverage of the situation in Ukraine and Russia.

In the wake of media reports that China is setting up a missile maintenance facility in Bangladesh, Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming yesterday denied any such plan.

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to properly inquire into graft allegations against 17 Collective Bargaining Agency (CBA) leaders of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

The High Court yesterday said monopoly and hoarding of daily essentials like soybean oil for profits is not acceptable.

More than 500 students and teachers of two government schools have been suffering immensely as local farmers dry and process tobacco leaves on their campus premises in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila.

An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: they have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000, while bringing into the world and raising four kids who are now adolescents.

Sharif Uddin, former deputy assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, filed a writ with the High Court yesterday challenging the dismissal from his job.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said an uninterrupted democratic process for the past 13 years has been behind the unprecedented development of Bangladesh.

Secondary and higher secondary schools will resume in-person classes on all subjects from March 15, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

A Bangladeshi woman died in a fire at a guest house on Kolkata’s Mirza Ghalib Street early yesterday.

A 35-year-old man died and four others were critically injured as a wall collapsed at a construction site in Chhoto Bongram area of Godagari, Rajshahi, yesterday morning.

Most business owners have shut up shop and fled Ukraine’s Mikolaiv, but florist Angela Kalisnik continues to sell tulips and roses just a short drive away from the frontline.

Voting was underway in Turkmenistan yesterday for a tightly-controlled leadership election that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia’s first father-son succession.