A Cox’s Bazar court on Saturday sent three men to jail on charge of gang-raping an 11-year-old girl.

Operation of regular international flights to and from Dhaka resumed on May 1 after a 17-day suspension due to coronavirus restrictions.

As the deadly coronavirus continues its onslaught in Bangladesh, health authorities reported 69 more deaths in 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday.

West Pakistan newspapers on May 3 quoted government sources as denying that large numbers of refugees were fleeing East Pakistan to neighbouring India.

India struggled to contain one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks with nearly 400,000 new infections reported yesterday, as more international aid arrived in the South Asian nation to help end the crisis.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s medical check-up is yet to be completed and she needs to stay in hospital for a few more days.

Narayanganj police yesterday sought a 24-day remand for Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque in three cases filed with Sonargaon Police Station.

Berlin police yesterday said they had arrested more than 250 people after May Day rallies descended into “unacceptable” violence that saw protesters pelt officers with stones and bottles and set fire to bins.

Over 200 press freedom violations linked to the pandemic were reported in the Asia-Pacific region, of which about half were from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal, stated a press release by International Press Institute (IPI).

Britain yesterday defended cuts to its aid spending, stressing the budget impact of the coronavirus pandemic, after several UN agencies warned they would translate into thousands of deaths among the world’s poor.

As many as 90 dead bodies of Bangladeshi expatriates have been sent home from Italy between July 2020 and April this year, according to the Bangladesh Embassy in Rome.

Several Indian states have run out of coronavirus vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said yesterday, as new infections surged to another daily record.

A teenage girl was gang-raped in Noakhali on Thursday and a man was arrested yesterday on charges of raping another minor girl in Tangail.

The introduction of the new primary and secondary education curriculum will be postponed for the second time as the authorities could not finish preparing the new textbooks amid the pandemic.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who tested positive for Covid-19, is physically stable, but she needs to stay in hospital for a few more days.

Learning lessons from the coronavirus pandemic and climate change fallouts, India and Bangladesh need to work more effectively to boost trade, connectivity and environmental protection while removing all irritants at the soonest, said foreign relations analysts from the two countries.

A newly developed, lollipop-shaped coronavirus test is being rolled out in some of Austria’s kindergartens as an alternative for toddlers who don’t take well to throat or nose swabs.

Faced with growing pressures among British MPs of all parties for intervention in Bangladesh war, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British foreign secretary,

Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad has been admitted to the Combined Military Hospital in the capital.

Eighty-one noted citizens yesterday urged the Chinese government to bring to book Chinese companies involved with SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, where seven workers were killed after police opened fire during demonstrations on April 17.