A fugitive was seen at the inauguration of a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Munshiganj where the Liberation War affairs minister, two MPs, a deputy commissioner were also present.

The hearsay of young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan hiding in one of his friend’s house in Gaibandha created confusion.

A 55-year-old man was shot dead in a remote village in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, on Friday night.

With most of its previous decisions unimplemented, a taskforce, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, is going to sit for its third meeting today.

At least 13 Bangladeshi migrants have been missing since a boat capsized with them off the coast of Tunisia almost a month ago.

A former Japanese justice minister received a three-year jail term yesterday for vote-buying in an attempt to get his wife elected to a national office, local media said.

One person was killed and a dozen injured in a drive-by shooting spree Thursday as a gunman roamed the streets in the southwestern US state of Arizona, police said.

The International Labour Conference has adopted a resolution with a global call for inoculating all workers against Covid-19 to revitalise the world economy.

Bangladesh has called for an incentive-based and long-term graduation package for the graduating and graduated countries from LDC status as they are at a high risk of sliding back -- both due to the Covid-19 impacts and the loss of LDC support measures.

The Calcutta High Court yesterday deferred to June 24 the hearing on the petition filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rival Suvendu Adhikari’s win in Nandigram constituency in recent state assembly elections.

A third wave of coronavirus infections is likely to hit India by October, and although it will be better controlled than the latest outbreak the pandemic will remain a public health threat for at least another year, according to a Reuters poll of medical experts.

Intellectuals and academicians of Bangladesh held that the only political solution with Pakistan was the emergence of a sovereign and an independent Bangladesh, according to Dr AR Mallick, founding vice-chancellor of Chittagong University.

An organised crime gang, in line with the instructions from Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed, played a role in spreading Covid-19 virus in the country by preparing fake test reports, a Rab probe has found.

At least six people, including a minor girl and a police officer, were killed and 10 others were injured yesterday in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Brahmanbaria.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was sworn in yesterday for a second term as head of the world body, promising to draw on the lessons of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

Pakistan President Yahya Khan, in a letter dated June 18, 1971, drew attention of American President Richard Nixon to the “rapidly mounting threat to peace and security in the sub-continent”.

The government is planning to find out how many vehicles operate in the capital as well as the capacity of its streets.

The first astronauts arrived at China’s new space station yesterday in the country’s longest crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a major space power.

Bangladesh is seeking a clear roadmap from the UN on the Rohingya repatriation, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine S Burgener in New York Wednesday.

The Kremlin was guarded about future dialogue with Washington yesterday, a day after the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Joe Biden.