The head of an ancient statue of the Greek god Hermes has been unearthed during excavations for sewage system improvements in central Athens, the ministry of culture said Sunday.

Soumitra Chatterjee was a guardian of Bangalee culture. It is an irreparable loss. Although my senior, he was more like a friend. A man of high morals, Soumitra dominated all spheres of culture.

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was cremated yesterday evening and a gun-salute at Kolkata’s Keoratala Burning Ghat.

Brazilians yesterday voted in municipal elections that will test the strength of the country’s rightward shift under President Jair Bolsonaro, with the coronavirus pandemic looming large.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said he favours a permanent division of Cyprus into two states, during a visit to the breakaway Turkish-held north decried as a “provocation” by the internationally recognised Greek-speaking south.

The head of Algeria’s top private media group was jailed for five years yesterday, the company said, the toughest sentence handed to a press mogul in the North African country.

As the world celebrates advances in vaccines against the novel coronavirus, a top WHO expert warned that public distrust risked rendering even the most effective treatments useless against the pandemic as global death toll from the virus topped 1.3 million yesterday.

Donald Trump said Friday that “time will tell” if he remains president, in a momentary slip of his unprecedented refusal to concede his election defeat and help Democrat Joe Biden prepare to take power.

Bangladesh and India will draw up plans to take the Dhaka-Delhi relations to the next level expanding areas of cooperation between the two countries with a number of engagements next month, officials say.

Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.

A Bangladeshi teenager made an impassioned plea Friday for stronger global action against cyberbullying and online crime involving children as he received a prestigious global children’s award.

Sir Robert Jackson, United Nations under secretary general and chief coordinator of the United Nations relief operations in Bangladesh, told

All 18 government offices in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila have filed a complaint with the deputy commissioner about the upazila chairman’s alleged indecent and abusive behaviour to officers.

If the public and legal channels through which a survivor can report rape are not gender-sensitive, the consequences can be disastrous.

Afghan forces have captured the “mastermind” of a brutal attack on Kabul University when militants stormed classrooms and gunned down dozens of students earlier this month, a top official said yesterday.

A policeman has been sued for allegedly raping a woman in Natore.

U Tin Thin, director, International Monetary Fund, Asia Department, calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono

G20 countries have agreed for the first time on a common framework for restructuring government debt, in anticipation of the coronavirus crisis leaving some poorer nations struggling to pay and in need of relief.

The death toll in the typhoon-battered Philippines has risen to 27, an official said yesterday, after some of the worst flooding in years swamped villages and forced thousands to flee their homes.

The US Embassy in Dhaka will accept appointments for new applicants for F, J, and M visas from tomorrow.