The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) is now on the search for physical evidence related to the death of former Hefazat chief Shah Ahmad Shafi.

The daily novel coronavirus infection rate in Bangladesh fell to 2.68 percent yesterday after the health authorities reported 396 new cases in 24 hours till the morning.

A court in Kurigram yesterday handed death penalty to six people for killing four members of a family, including two children, in Diadanga village of the district’s Bhurungamari upazila in 2014.

Another new Covid variant with potentially worrying mutations has been discovered in the UK.

Bangladesh has called for greater preparedness for the safety and security of the UN peacekeepers.

The government is going to upgrade the 209km Dhaka-Sylhet highway into six lanes, including service lanes on both the sides, under a Tk 16,918.59 crore project.

The High Court yesterday expressed disappointment and anger over incidents of corruption and money laundering, saying those who die after embezzling state money, committing corruption and money laundering should be tried posthumously.

Fallout from a devastating flash flood in a remote north Indian valley hit the capital New Delhi more than 500 kilometres downstream yesterday, when water supplies were cut to tens of thousands of residents.

Sixty-year-old Mohammed Hossen, a Rohingya from Kutupalong camp, who never thought that he would ever move to Bhasan Char about which he used to hear various negative things.

A case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was yesterday transferred to Dhaka Cyber Tribunal for trial.

Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to “the next ecological disaster”.

Several thousand people demonstrated Sunday in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, saying the government was trying to establish a new dictatorship and denouncing international support for President Jovenel Moise.

Police in Patiya yesterday arrested newly elected councillor Sarwar Kamal Mosleh Uddin Rajib over the killing of a man in front of a polling centre on Sunday.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday the alliance will not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan “before the time is right”, ahead of a discussion by defence ministers on the deployment.

Covid-19 claimed 11 more lives and another 446 got infected in Bangladesh in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.

A freedom fighter has sued nine people, including two policemen, for illegally lifting stones from his property in Jaflong of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila.

The judgement in the case filed over blogger Avijit Roy’s murder against six members of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam is set to be delivered today.

Driver of Directorate General of Health Services Abdul Malek alias Badal, who came to the fore for his alleged involvement in illegal recruitments, manipulating transfers and promotions and trading in fake currencies, was found to have amassed about Tk 1.5 crore illegally, according to a case filed by the ACC.

Protesters in Myanmar kept up demands yesterday for the release of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an end to military rule despite the deployment of armoured vehicles and more soldiers on the streets.

Growing various crops was the only source of livelihood for the people of Gorkhana, Chodurkhil, and Haldarchar -- three villages in Manikchhari upazila of Khagrachhari where the Halda river originates.