Senior Awami League MP Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim yesterday told parliament that Hefajat-e-Islam is anti-Islamic, anti-independence, and “they are the enemy of the country”.

Mystery shrouds over the death of a housewife after a car driven by her husband hit a road divider in the capital’s Hatirjheel area yesterday morning.

Ten of Myanmar’s major rebel groups threw their support behind the country’s anti-coup movement yesterday, fanning fears that a broader conflict could erupt in a country long plagued by fighting between the military and the ethnic armies.

On April 4, 1971, Tajuddin Ahmad called on Indian PM Indira Gandhi at the office in her residence. The conversation started with Indira’s question, “How is Sheikh Mujib? Is he alright?”

The mummified remains of 22 Egyptian pharaohs, including the most powerful ancient queen, were scheduled to be paraded through the streets of Cairo yesterday, in a procession to a new resting place.

Keeping provisions of tougher punishments for polluting environment, the Mongla Port Authority Bill-2021 was placed in parliament yesterday.

A group of leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam blocked Dhaka-Chattogram highway, staged demonstrations, vandalised some vehicles, and ransacked a resort yesterday evening after getting a top leader of the organisation “rescued from confinement”.

Candidates for public office in Hong Kong will have their entire history vetted, its top justice official said yesterday, after China announced a radical overhaul to ensure only “patriots” run the city.

Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed Friday when suspected jihadists staged a major attack on their camp in Aguelhok, northern Mali, the UN mission said.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian yesterday called on Tehran to be “constructive” during talks with world powers next week in Vienna.

Compared to the previous week, deaths due to Covid-19 has increased by around 71 percent and transmission of novel coronavirus continued to surge.

A Bangkok residence building collapsed yesterday, killing at least four rescue workers and a resident, according to an emergency worker.

India’s biggest cities yesterday braced for stricter lockdowns and other Covid-19 curbs as millions of Christians around the world were facing another Easter weekend under restrictions because of coronavirus surges.

A court in Feni yesterday sent a youth to jail on charge of raping a minor girl in Fulgazi upazila.

India is staring at coronavirus pandemic second wave which may turn out to be worse than the first one, officials feared yesterday, as the country stepped up inoculation drive amid record number of cases.

India has said it has always been against fundamentalism and extremism and expressed confidence that the Bangladesh government would address the challenge posed by violent street protests by Hefajat-e-Islam during and after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to that country.

Visitors from Bangladesh, the Philippines, Pakistan and Kenya will be banned from travelling to the UK from 4:00am of April 9, according to a statement posted on the GOV.UK website.

A mother of three has been gang-raped allegedly by a group of three men in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila around 9:00pm on Thursday.

Three Rohingya youths died in a fire that ravaged eight shops at a bazaar near Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya yesterday.

Some of the 102 Britons who were evacuated to Singapore by air yesterday from East Pakistan revealed today the fighting and carnage they had seen.