The General Assembly adopts a unanimous resolution calling for the admission of Bangladesh to the world body at an early date. Member countries including China and Pakistan approve the resolution moved by Yugoslavia with the support of 22 countries.

People of Bangladesh have lost faith in the Election Commission as voting system of the country has fallen apart and the democracy has been made non-functional, eminent citizens said yesterday.

Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, the coordinator of the investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal, died from Covid-19 yesterday.

A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 30 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting government forces in recent months.

Thirty-seven villages in Pratapnagar and Sriula unions of Satkhira’s Assasuni upazila went under water when Cyclone Amphan broke major river embankments at several points in May this year.

The US on Friday announced economic sanctions on Chinese and Russian companies that Washington said had supported the development of Iran’s missile program.

Islamic State-linked extremists killed four people in a remote Christian community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said yesterday, with one victim beheaded and another burned to death.

An expelled leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was arrested on Friday night for raping a 10th grader in Narsingdi.

Bangladesh has disbursed $500,000 to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation as part of a fund-raising campaign initiated by foreign ministers of the 57-nation group for The Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar over the Rohingya genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

About 200 Cuban artists demonstrated outside the country’s culture ministry on Friday in a rare protest over freedom of expression that received support from leading Cuban cinema figures.

At least four people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus hit a rickshaw-van on Gopalganj-Pirojpur highway before crashing into a canal in Malekbazar area of Tungipara yesterday morning.

A filling station worker died of his burns at a city hospital early yesterday, four days after he was set on fire allegedly by one of his co-workers.

The ruling Awami League yesterday picked its candidates for mayoral elections to 25 pourasavas.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would lay the foundation stone of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the Jamuna today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman leaves Dhaka today on a three-day tour to see the coastal embankment projects and arrangements for conservation of coastal forests.

The World Health Organization needs to see clinical data and information of good manufacturing practice to be able to evaluate Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, WHO assistant director general Mariangela Simao said on Friday.

An agreement has been reached by the sponsoring nations on a ‘compromise’ formula relating to the admission of Bangladesh into the UN.

Iran’s top nuclear scientist was killed yesterday in an alleged assassination that the country’s foreign minister linked to Israel.

Thanks to drastically reduced traffic and visitor movement due to Covid-19 restrictions, migratory birds which arrive to spend out the winter on the lakes of the Jahangirnagar University campus have seen a less disruptive, more idyllic environment this season.

Several hundred students staged demonstrations in front of Bandarban Press Club yesterday demanding immediate cancelation of the lease of jhum land to an organisation for tourism purposes.