One of Myanmar’s main ethnic minority rebel groups yesterday warned of a growing threat of major conflict and called for international intervention against a military crackdown on opponents of last month’s coup.

At 4:00am on March 30, 1971, Bangladeshi forces, comprising East Pakistan Rifles (EPR), police and civilians under the leadership of Abu Osman Chowdhury,

The Awami League government has partially fulfilled its electoral pledge to hold trials over 1971 war crimes by bringing individuals to book but it is yet to make any considerable progress in trying organisations.

At least 150 people were injured in separate clashes between police and BNP activists in Kishorganj and Noagaon yesterday.

Bangladesh is lagging behind most of its South Asian peers in terms of smartphone use, according to a report of GSMA, which represents mobile operators worldwide.

A former Pakistani diplomat has said the people of Pakistan should urge their government to offer a formal apology to the people of Bangladesh for the genocide its military committed in 1971.

Tangail District Cultural Officer Redwana Islam was found murdered inside a hospital cabin on Saturday.

On top of being unable to communicate via Facebook and its Messenger app for over three days, people in certain areas in the country are not even getting decent internet from mobile carriers.

Myanmar security forces opened fire yesterday, witnesses said, at people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military coup on February 1.

In the evening, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was flown via helicopter from the cantonment, where he was detained, to the Tejgaon Airport. Afterwards, he was flown to Karachi by a special military aircraft.

Kurdish forces launched a security operation in a camp for suspected family members of Islamic State group militants and made dozens of arrests yesterday, a war monitor and Kurdish officials said.

Afghan migrants accused French police Saturday of driving them back across the border with Italy by firing into the air, a media report said, while French gendarmes denied the charge.

A ninth-grader was injured in an acid attack in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila on Saturday evening, family sources said.

India saw 62,714 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 1,19,71,624, while the daily deaths crossed the 300-mark for the first time in 2021.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four weeks a High Court verdict that granted bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Md Salim, in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three councilors -- former and incumbent -- along with a Cox’s Bazar municipality office assistant, yesterday for allegedly assisting some Rohingyas to get enrolled in the voter list through forgery.

A 22 year-old woman died last night four days after her husband and mother-in-law set her on fire in Kabiler Para area of Gaibandha.

Police yesterday arrested a man on charge of raping a nine-year-old girl in Sylhet’s Sadar upazila.

France, Belgium and Poland yesterday tightened curbs as coronavirus cases surged in Europe while the Philippines prepared for a giant lockdown and Chile confined over 80 percent of its population.

Voters in India’s Assam and West Bengal cast their ballots yesterday in elections that will indicate how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support is holding up after a year of the coronavirus pandemic and months of protests against his farm reforms.