Police claimed to have busted a makeshift weapon-making factory on a building’s rooftop in Chattogram city’s Bangshal Para early yesterday.

A total of 62 municipalities would go to polls today amid worries of violence.

Europe’s medicines regulator yesterday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people over the age of 18, as concerns grow around the world over the effectiveness of different jabs against new strains of Covid-19.

Clashes erupted yesterday between hundreds of opponents and supporters of a major farmers protest that has disrupted the Indian capital for more than eight weeks.

A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, four expatriates returned from Saudi Arabia by air on November 29 last year.

A marine engineer confessed to torturing a 20-year-old house help to death and dumping her body in a suitcase under a bridge in Gouripur, Mymensingh.

Donald Trump met with US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in Florida Thursday amid a tug of war over the Republican Party’s future, with congressional leadership appearing eager to present a united front with the former president.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has invited new US Secretary of State Antony John Blinken to visit Bangladesh and attend the celebrations of the Birth Centenary of the Father of the Nation and the Golden Jubilee of the country’s independence.

The closing of Panama’s border due to Covid has stranded a thousand migrants -- most from Haiti and Cuba -- in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across on their way to the United States, officials said Thursday.

Bangladesh yesterday recorded seven coronavirus deaths, the lowest daily count since early May.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a new raft of executive actions to combat climate change, including pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land and cutting fossil fuel subsidies, as he pursues green policies he billed as a boon for job creation.

Bangladesh has sought flexibilities in the visa regime and requested the Indian side to address the difference in overstay fine structures applied by India.

The health authorities in Bangladesh yesterday confirmed 15 new coronavirus-related deaths and 509 new cases, raising the death toll to 8,087.

The World Health Organization’s European branch yesterday said it is too early to ease virus restrictions in Europe despite a drop in new cases in most countries.

The third batch of Rohingyas -- around 3,000 -- is set to reach Bhasan Char today from the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia.

The ongoing cold spell that has paralysed normal life across the country, especially in the northern region, may continue for the next one week.

Frustrated with the disorder during the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder dubbed the polls as a “model for irregularities”.

Three Dhaka University teachers have been demoted on charge of plagiarism in their research papers.

Bangladesh continues its discussions with Myanmar with a friendly attitude, without engaging in any conflict, for the repatriation of Rohingyas and regional security and development, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.