Three people, including two children, were killed and nine others injured as a gas cylinder, used for inflating balloons, exploded at a school playground in Cox’s Bazar’s Maheshkhali upazila yesterday morning.

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Thursday on recent deadly clashes in the Darfur region of Sudan, without agreeing on a joint declaration or a possible change of stance, diplomats said.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives will deliver an impeachment charge against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday, rejecting Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s request for a delay.

Ekramul Karim Chowdhury, Awami League lawmaker from Noakhali-4, has alleged that party General Secretary Obaidul Quader belongs to a razakar’s family.

Myanmar has said it is committed to beginning the Rohingya repatriation as per the bilateral agreement signed with Bangladesh in 2017.

A 22-year-old Italian linked to white supremacist groups was arrested yesterday on terrorism charges, Italian police said.

Four civilians, including two children, were killed by Israeli strikes on the Syrian province of Hama at dawn yesterday, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

Cold-related diseases are spreading in different northern districts due to the ongoing gloomy and foggy weather.

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 7,981 as the country’s health authorities recorded 15 more coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours till yesterday morning.

A seven-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by a man in Bagerhat Sadar upazila.

The whimsical, wafting flight of butterflies may not give the impression of top aerodynamic performance, but research published on Wednesday suggests their large flexible wings could be perfectly designed to give them a burst of jet propulsion.

A Rohingya man, suspected to be a yaba trader, was killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Naikhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban early yesterday.

After her father died, around two years ago, Rimu came to the capital from Jamalpur and started working at a readymade garment factory.

New US president Joe Biden embarked on a “wartime undertaking” to battle the pandemic in the world’s worst-hit country, while Germany’s Covid-19 death toll passed 50,000 yesterday as it reeled from a second wave.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury yesterday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take the Covid-19 vaccine first and dispel people’s fear regarding inoculation.

As much as 60 percent of the country’s power generation capacity remained unutilised in 2020 because of a lack of demand for electricity.

Three people were killed and four others critically injured as a jeep, popularly known as Chander Gari, fell into a ditch in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila yesterday.

Amnesty International yesterday expressed deep concern over the recent arbitrary detention and other forms of harassment of artists who are facing increasing attacks on their right to freedom of expression in Bangladesh.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested a union-level deputy assistant land officer after he was found making a fortune out of land acquisitions for the government’s development work in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday disapproved two lawmakers’ proposal to name the under-construction Padma bridge after her for her contributions to the country’s development and progress.