A Bangladeshi migrant worker is suing his ex-employer and dormitory operator in Singapore, accusing them of “false imprisonment” after he was locked in his room during a coronavirus outbreak.

An expert mission to China to probe the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was in disarray yesterday after Beijing denied entry to the World Health Organization team at the last minute despite months of painstaking negotiations.

A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicised visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a whitewash.

Coronavirus claimed 20 more lives and infected another 991 people in 24 hours across the country till Tuesday morning.

The global economy is expected to expand 4 percent in 2021 after shrinking 4.3% in 2020, the World Bank said yesterday, although it warned that rising Covid-19 infections and delays in vaccine distribution could limit the recovery to just 1.6 percent this year.

Robbers carried out acid attack on a security guard and stabbed another after failing to rob a bank in Bogura’s Gabtali upazila early yesterday.

After an unprecedented campaign that mobilised President Donald Trump and his successor Joe Biden, the people of Georgia yesterday started voting in two US Senate runoffs that could shape the first years of the new Democratic presidency.

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus yesterday praised India’s action and its resolve to end the Covid-19 pandemic as the largest vaccine producer of the world.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman receives a warm and hearty welcome when he flies into his hometown Gopalganj today.

Bangladesh wants social and legal protection of migrant workers in destination countries during emergency situations like the Covid-19 pandemic that has exposed their sheer vulnerability abroad.

The family of the apprentice lawyer, who died in a prison cell of a hospital after alleged torture by members of Detective Branch of police, was able to file a murder case yesterday with a Barishal court that ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the incident.

The Moscow metro said Sunday it had hired female drivers for the first time in its recent history, following recent changes in controversial Russian legislation prohibiting women from many professions.

Vietnam yesterday jailed three pro-democracy bloggers on anti-state charges, one of their lawyers said, weeks ahead of the communist government’s party congress.

A judicial probe committee yesterday submitted its report to the High Court saying officials of Narayanganj Sadar Police Station tortured and forced three people to give confessional statements to magistrates about raping and killing a minor girl who later turned out to be alive after 49 days last year.

A Madaripur court yesterday sentenced two people to death for killing a seven-year-old girl after rape on November 27, 2012.

The health directorate reported that 910 people were infected with the novel coronavirus in the 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.

Relatives of apprentice lawyer Rejaul Karim Reja, who died in a prison cell of a Barishal hospital, yesterday alleged that Kotwali police did not record a murder case against three members of Detective Brach of police.

A French-Irish teenager with learning difficulties died by “misadventure” after disappearing in the Malaysian jungle on a family holiday and no one else was involved, a coroner ruled yesterday.

An Algerian supporter of the Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for satirical social media posts mocking the government and religion, a campaign group said.

Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Sunday to hold further talks this month, hoping to resolve their long-running dispute over the latter’s huge dam on the Blue Nile, Sudan’s water ministry said.