National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary was celebrated worldwide on May 25, with tributes pouring in from individuals, organisations and corporates alike.

The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted yesterday, a day after tens of thousands of residents fled after warnings that the nearby Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again.

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million yesterday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and a vaccine shortage across the region.

Eleven days after their arrest by CBI in Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft, senior West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee were granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought financial and technical support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to produce Covid-19 vaccines and other lifesaving medicines.

A 26-year-old Tripura youth, who was arrested on May 16 in a case filed under the pornography act, was found dead inside the Khagrachhari district jail early yesterday.

Bangladesh yesterday reported 1,358 new Covid-19 cases, while the coronavirus claimed 31 more lives.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad said he failed to understand how the democratic governments of the world could support the dictatorial regime of Pakistan, which was crushing the democratic aspirations of the people of Bangladesh.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who tested negative for novel coronavirus 20 days ago, has caught fever.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has agreed to launch an international investigation into alleged crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

Law enforcers arrested three more Hefajat-e-Islam men from different places in Brahmanbria in 24 hours till yesterday morning in cases filed over vandalism and arson attacks during protests over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in late March.

The US government is “rapidly” formulating plans to evacuate potentially thousands of interpreters who worked for coalition forces in Afghanistan over the past two decades to protect their safety, a top general said.

Police arrested Hefajat-e-Islam’s Hathazari municipality unit’s Assistant Dawah Secretary Aminul Islam and his associate Aftab Uddin Piayru in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari yesterday over the mayhem unleashed in the upazila on March 26.

Police in the Indian city of Bengaluru said they arrested five Bangladeshis, four men and a woman, yesterday over the rape and torture of a young woman who they also believed to be from Bangladesh.

A project director of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation was killed in a road accident in Sirajganj yesterday morning while on the way to a meeting in the capital.

Australia’s ambassador to China was barred from the trial of an academic held on spying charges yesterday, in a case that has exacerbated a bitter row between the two nations.

The UN high commissioner for human rights yesterday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on Gaza might constitute war crimes and that Islamist group Hamas had violated international humanitarian law by firing rockets into Israel.

The number of Covid-19 cases continued to decline for the second consecutive day yesterday.

Internet users will suffer slow connection today due to maintenance work on a submarine cable between 2:30pm and 10:00pm.

The Halda river, the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia, has seen a poor yield of eggs mainly due to heavy salinity in the river water this year.