Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.

Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.

Amnesty International yesterday denounced a “horrifying execution spree” in Egypt, saying dozens of people had been put to death in the past two months.

A promise of dialogue between the Cuban government and artists calling for greater freedom of expression seems to have stalled, after communist authorities blamed a protest on US interference.

The US would continuously support Bangladesh through humanitarian assistance and political engagement for a solution to the Rohingya crisis.

President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury today says that the new nation Bangladesh would extend full cooperation to India for establishment of durable peace in the subcontinent to make it an abode of peace.

Two youths yesterday threw a “suspicious black bag” at a security guard of the US embassy in the capital, following an altercation.

Valiant freedom fighter Shahzaman Mozumder Bir Protik breathed his last at a clinic in the capital yesterday.

A sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be set up in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan yesterday said.

Bangladesh physician Mahmudul Hoque Jassy has secured a record-breaking highest mark in the MRCP examination this year, after scoring 906 out of 1,000, where the pass mark was 454.

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said yesterday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.

Nine years have passed after two separate appeals were filed with the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that declared the Chattogram Hill Tracts Regional Council illegal and unconstitutional.

The Serum Institute of India (SII) said yesterday that vaccine candidate ‘Covishield’, which is being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), is “safe and immunogenic”. The SII is testing the candidate in India.

Police arrested a suspected gold smuggler couple with 28 gold bars worth Tk 3 crore near Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban yesterday.

As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to go up, Health Secretary Abdul Mannan yesterday said the country would receive the vaccine hopefully by February next year or earlier.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death and fined him Tk 1 lakh for killing a minor girl after rape in the district’s Pirganj upazila in 2016.

It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years.

The parliamentary body on the home affairs ministry wants to visit different foreign missions of Bangladesh to inspect passport and visa issuance activities in order to get a comprehensive idea on how to make them more dynamic and effective.

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has planned to introduce an automatic train protection system (ATPS) to avoid any head-on collisions and maloperation, and to ensure safe train operations, officials said.

Pakistani President ZA Bhutto envisages a special relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh in which there would be certain special trade agreements and no visas for the people of one country visiting the other.