The world’s longest-living male giant panda under human care, An An, has died at the age of 35, the Hong Kong zoo where he spent most of his life said yesterday.

Three members of an organ trading gang were sent to jail in Joypurhat on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, with his doctors saying the 79-year-old leader was experiencing mild fatigue and would isolate at the White House while carrying out his full duties.

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country, over the course of the pandemic, crossed the 20-million-mark yesterday.

A man was stabbed to death on Sunamganj District Judge Court premises yesterday afternoon.

Liz Truss, the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, yesterday criticised rival Rishi Sunak over his tax policies while finance minister as the pair kicked off six weeks of campaigning.

The finance ministry yesterday directed government officials to lower fuel and lubricant expenditures for their vehicles by 20 percent while the public administration ministry asked officials not to waste power.

At least 552 projects that were supposed to be finished by June this year could not meet deadlines.  

Ahead of her official visit to India in the first week of September, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed hope to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee whose consent is required for inking the Teesta water-sharing deal. 

“I am Sheikh Hasina’s Jannat!”

A top energy expert has expressed doubt over whether the government’s actions to solve the energy crisis will bear much fruit, and said people with lower incomes will be hit harder by measures such as load shedding.

Trafficking of illegal drugs, notably methamphetamine or ‘yaba’, from Myanmar to all its neighbouring countries has risen alarmingly since the 2017 Rohingya influx in Bangladesh.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release on bail of a prominent journalist arrested last month over what police said was a “highly provocative” 2018 tweet aimed at straining ties between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.

The French government yesterday urged citizens to make the effort to save energy in the face of record high oil and gas prices, including by cutting wifi routers when heading off on holiday.

Russia’s military aims in Ukraine are no longer focused “only” on the country’s east, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, adding that supplies of Western weapons had changed the Kremlin’s calculus.

Members of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate arrested a woman with gold worth Tk 55 lakh in Benapole yesterday.

President Joe Biden was set to announce a set of executive actions yesterday aimed at addressing climate change in a visit to the site of a former coal-fired plant in Massachusetts that is playing a role in supporting the state’s offshore wind industry.

A departmental case has been filed against the immediate past upazila nirbahi officer of Akhaura and two other officials following allegations of irregularities and negligence during the construction work under Ashrayan project.

A man was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Azimnagar area of Rangunia, Chattogram, on Tuesday night.

The health directorate yesterday reported just one death from Covid-19, down from eight the previous day.