The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden.

Boundless joy overwhelms Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as he sees the manuscript of the 153-article constitution of the People’s

Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums.

Johns Hopkins, the celebrated philanthropist who supported the abolition of slavery and whose wealth allowed him to found the prestigious US university that bears his name, owned slaves, the Baltimore-based institution confirmed Friday.

Separatist officials in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday said that three fighters were wounded in a skirmish with Azerbaijani forces, undermining a recent peace deal brokered by Russia.

An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned Morocco’s normalisation of ties with the Islamic republic’s arch foe Israel, calling it a “betrayal of Islam”.

Members of the Mro community yesterday demanded that the construction of a five-star hotel and amusement park in the Chimbuk Naitong hills be stopped, saying that the project was destroying the ecological balance and risking indigenous life in the area.

Saidul Bashar, a seven-pound baby boy became the first child to be born in Bhasan Char.

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) honoured six of its freedom fighter trustees at a programme on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Thursday, says a press release.

EU leaders yesterday agreed an ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions after unlocking the bloc’s landmark budget and coronavirus recovery fund at a marathon summit.

A 30-year-old woman suffered serious burn injuries after her husband set her on fire in Croke area of Barguna town Thursday evening, said police.

A local Awami League leader was hacked to death by his rivals in Pabna’s Anonto Bazar area yesterday evening over protesting collection of extortion money.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has to play an adequate role in preventing human rights violations in the country.

The visiting four-member Egyptian trade delegation today calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the secretariat.

South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, a controve-rsial figure both for his work and in his personal life, died in Latvia from coronavirus complications yesterday, a Latvian film official said.

The government move to relocate 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char has invited some negative international scrutiny, but local NGOs and experts have said international aid agencies might change their minds if they visited the island.

US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator.

Dr Nurul Islam, deputy chairman of the planning commission, discloses today that the draft outline of the first five-year plan would be

The outgoing US point man on North Korea admitted yesterday that the Trump administration had not achieved what it sought with Kim Jong Un, but blamed Pyongyang for squandering the opportunity for progress.

YouTube on Wednesday banned new videos with bogus claims of election fraud, saying enough states have certified Joe Biden as the next US president to make it official.