On the morning of March 22, 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called on President Yahya Khan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was also present at the meeting.

Twenty-eight years have passed since the country first detected arsenic in water, but neither the extent nor the intensity of the chemical element was reduced, say experts.

Protesters returned to the streets across Myanmar yesterday, defying a junta-led campaign of fear as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again condemned the killing of demonstrators and arbitrary arrests there.

With marks of bullet wounds, the body of a Bangladeshi man was seen lying on the Indian side of the border near Juri upazila of Moulvibazar yesterday, said locals.

In an unscheduled meeting, Yahya today told Mujib and Tajuddin that Bhutto had been informed that the representatives of the Awami League and the government had reached an agreement on the formation of central cabinet and that Bhutto should be present for discussion on the interim constitutional instrument and cabinet formation.

Zaheda was rushed to a private clinic in Chandpur district’s Shahrasti upazila on May 24 last year.

Bangladesh is now one of the brightest examples of religious harmony and peace, Dr Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said yesterday.

A crowded bus crashed into a precipice in central Sri Lanka yesterday, killing the driver and 13 passengers in the worst road accident in 16 years, police said.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, who is Black, clashed with her Chinese counterpart on Friday when she described her own experience with racism as a challenge, but said for millions of people in countries like China and Myanmar it was deadly.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation.

France, Poland, Ukraine and parts of India introduced new lockdown measures yesterday to fight a surge in coronavirus infections, as the European Union threatened to block exports of AstraZeneca jabs in an escalating row over vaccines.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished his Pakistani arch-rival Imran Khan a “speedy recovery” from Covid-19 yesterday, in a new sign of a thaw between the neighbours.

Investigators have found that banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) was giving training to children in the guise of running a madrasa.

A teenage boy was sued over the rape of a minor girl in Jashore yesterday, while a man was arrested on charge of raping a mentally challenged girl in Noakhali.

Several European countries resumed AstraZeneca vaccinations yesterday after an all-clear from EU regulators, as US President Joe Biden was set to meet his goal of having 100 million Americans inoculated weeks ahead of schedule.

A woman and her mother suffered burns in an acid attack in Bhatamatha village of Brahmanbaria’s Akhaura upazila yesterday.

A teenage girl was gang-raped allegedly by a group of four youths in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila early yesterday.

Security forces killed at least nine opponents of Myanmar’s February 1 coup yesterday, a funeral service and media said, as Indonesia urged an end to violence and Western ambassadors condemned what they called the military’s immoral, indefensible actions.

Police have arrested 22 people in connection with attacking, vandalising and looting Hindu houses in Noagaon village of Sunamganj’s Shalla upazila on Wednesday.

The fourth round of talks between Yahya Khan and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was held today. Bangabandhu was joined by his colleagues -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Khondokar Moshtaque Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and Kamal Hossain.