Iran’s judiciary chief yesterday warned that Qasem Soleimani’s killers will “not be safe on Earth”, as the Islamic republic began marking the first anniversary of the top general’s assassination in a US strike.

People of low income group are suffering immensely as a mild to moderate cold wave sweeping through the country’s northern region.

Though the number of daily tests increased, a fall in the total number of coronavirus cases was seen in December compared to the previous month.

People living in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens have reported several squirrel attacks over the past month, with one woman needing emergency attention after a bite to the hand.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was shot dead in Teknaf over what police said was his enmity with two local men.

Fifty-one academics, human rights activists and lawyers have issued a statement demanding the release of Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam, who they claim landed in jail on Thursday for taking photos of buses departing Kutupalong for Bhasan Char.

Britain yesterday began a new year and life outside the European Union after leaving the bloc’s single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel by ferry and rail reporting largely plain sailing despite new customs rules.

The incidents of rape and violence against women this year were more than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said yesterday.

Two students are killed and seven others are injured when the police on duty open fire upon a procession of students organised by DUCSU and Bangladesh Chhatra Union in observance of Vietnam Day today.

The UN yesterday voiced outrage at the execution of a man in Iran who was only 16 when he committed his alleged crime, marking the fourth juvenile offender put to death in the country this year.

A Uighur Muslim doctor has been jailed on terrorism charges, Beijing confirmed yesterday, a day after her family told US politicians she had been sentenced to 20 years.

Din Mohammad had made up his mind to go to Malaysia in desperate want of a better life.

The world yesterday began ushering in the New Year, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020.

In a rare instance, a parliamentary committee yesterday formed three sub-committees to look into issues, including the allegations of irregularities and corruption in the collection of tolls at bridges across the country.

He drives a Nissan X-Trail and lives in a duplex with foreign fittings in Keshorhat village of Rajshahi’s Mohanpur, where such luxuries raise quite a few eyebrows.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh surged to 7,559 with 28 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until yesterday morning.

Faridpur town Awami League’s organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Harun Mondal was yesterday shown arrested in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

Four public engineering universities have decided in principle to form a cluster and hold a uniform admission test.

A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for Covid-19 more than a week after receiving the Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday.

The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, yesterday urged countries to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk everywhere, not just in rich nations.