An Italian offshore supply vessel on Saturday rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a crowded, wooden boat.

Manuel Locatelli's 86th-minute goal grabbed Juventus a hard-fought 1-0 derby victory at Torino on Saturday as Massimiliano Allegri's men made it three straight Serie A wins, while Edin Dzeko came off the bench to inspire Inter Milan past Sassuolo.

Japan will compile a considerably large supplementary budget immediately after the upcoming general election to ease pandemic pain and back long-term growth in areas such as green, digital and infrastructure, a ruling party heavyweight said on Sunday.

Luis Suarez piled more misery on Barcelona by scoring in a 2-0 victory for Atletico Madrid on Saturday but Ronald Koeman insists he has the club's support to continue as coach.

Women marched by the thousands on Saturday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on abortion and advocate for maintaining a constitutional right to the procedure.

Nearly two days after shutting down foreign TV channels keeping viewers in the dark, cable operators yesterday said they would seek one or one and a half years from the government to ensure international advertisements are not aired in Bangladesh by those channels.

After Evaly, Dhamaka Shopping and Eorange, the jig seems to be over for another unscrupulous company, the social networking platform RingID, after one of its directors was arrested yesterday.

Bangladesh had at least 433 prisoners under the Digital Security Act as of July 11 this year, Amnesty International told the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) yesterday.

Jatiya Party Secretary General, and former MP and minister Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu died yesterday at a city hospital.

The First Secretary of the Pakistani Embassy in Katmandu, Mustafizur Rahman, switched his allegiance to the Bangladesh Government on October 3. Mustafizur Rahman, a 29-year-old Bangalee, who was also head of the chancery, told a news conference at his residence that he had taken this “bold” decision after six months of “the worst mental agony in my life.”

Worldwide deaths related to Covid-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. 

As the country’s cable operators stopped broadcasting foreign TV channels yesterday, viewers expressed anger as they were unable to watch their favourite shows.

Local syndicates are out again to grab swathes of the Buriganga riverbank in the capital’s Kamrangichar, blocking the natural flow of the river.

The Bangladesh cabinet met today to review the Kremlin meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the Soviet leaders,

Hamida Wadud Poly, niece of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, breathed her last yesterday morning at the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka. She was 68.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home last night from Washington DC via Helsinki wrapping up her US visit to attend the 76th United Nations General Assembly and other high level side events.

Students of Amar Ekushey Hall at Dhaka University forcefully entered the residential hall today after breaking the padlock at the entrance.

One dengue patient died while 165 people were hospitalised with dengue fever in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

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Think-tank Centre for Governance Studies says it tracked details of 668 out of more than 1,500 cases filed under the controversial Digital Security Act in the last 20 months or so, and found that only two of the cases have been disposed of.