The Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) has announced its Hajj packages for this year. HAAB leaders announced two categories – ‘general’ and ‘economy’ – Hajj packages for the pilgrims, who intend to perform pilgrimage under private arrangement this year.…

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested three people in connection with the murder of Rakib Hasnat Shipon, who was stabbed to death on Sunday in Hatirjheel. The police arrested Azad, Sujon, and Ibrahim from different parts of the capital on Wednesday night. The switchgear knife used to stab…

The Cabinet Division has asked field officials, especially divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners (DCs), and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs), to have a corner in all public hospitals to provide medical facilities to patients, if they are infected with the coronavirus in future. This was conveyed…

Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at a Sector Commander level courtesy meeting yesterday agreed to strengthen joint patrols for curbing all sorts of cross-border crimes. BGB sources said the meeting was held at Hili Check Post (CP) border outpost of BGB inside Bangladesh…

Twenty-three more Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. They were flown to Delhi yesterday by a special flight with a number of other Indian nationals, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka. The Bangladeshi nationals will be quarantined…

The Centre asked a Bangladeshi studying at Visva-Bharati to leave India for participating in “anti-government activities” after she posted on Facebook a few photographs of protests against the CAA at the university. Afsara Anika Meem, a first-year undergraduate student at the central varsity’s…

A gunman killed five co-workers at one of America's best-known breweries on Wednesday before turning the weapon on himself in the latest burst of mass gun violence in the US. More than 1,000 employees were at the Molson Coors brewing complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when the early-afternoon tragedy…

India and Myanmar on Thursday signed 10 agreements with a focus on the socio-economic development of the southeast Asian nation as Indian Prime Minister…

Earth acquired a second "mini-moon" about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet. The mass -- roughly 1.9-3.5 meters (6-11 feet) in diameter -- was observed by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey…