Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday extended his warmest felicitations to Richard M Nixon on his re-election to the presidentship of the United States.

One of the teams racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine yesterday announced its drug had shown 90 percent effectiveness against the illness, sending stock markets soaring and raising hopes of an end to draconian restrictions on movement.

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to work more closely with US allies in confronting China on trade, and is seen as unlikely to roll back his predecessor’s tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, Chinese and European goods any time soon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the public representatives of local government bodies to stand beside people and work for their welfare with a service mentality.

Rab yesterday arrested three people, including two women, for allegedly forcing college girls to take part in pornographic clips in Joypurhat.

Police yesterday arrested four more suspects on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, in Patgram, Lalmonirhat.

Dhaka University would not arrange admission tests for “Gha” and “Cha” units under social science and fine arts faculties from the next academic year, decided the university’s Deans’ Committee primarily.

Eighteen more people died from Covid-19 in past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

A man died hours after he was shot allegedly by Myanmar Border Guard Police in the Naf river of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.

Police arrested four people for allegedly raping and then mugging a woman in the port city’s Lalkhan Bazar area.

Myanmar voted in a general election yesterday seen as a referendum on a fledgling democratic government that remains popular at home but which has seen its reputation collapse overseas amid allegations of genocide.

Global coronavirus infections exceeded 50 million yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, with a second wave of the virus in the past 30 days accounting for a quarter of the total.

Several hundred students from various medical and dental colleges yesterday blocked the Shahbagh intersection in the capital for over two hours, demanding introduction of online classes and academic years free of session jam.

Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday voted to replace the current government of the federal state of Tigray, after the army launched air strikes to destroy military assets in the region in a worsening internal conflict.

A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a Kabul bombing yesterday, in an attack officials blamed on a group linked to the Taliban.

About 150 people have died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which devastated an indigenous village in the country’s north, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.

A special session of the Jatiya Sangsad will begin at 6:00pm today on the occasion of Mujib Barsha, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Rich nations will need to boost efforts to provide funding for pandemic-hit poorer countries to battle climate change if they are to meet a promise of raising $100 billion a year from 2020, climate finance officials and analysts said on Friday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there would be no poverty in Bangladesh if multidimensional rural cooperatives can be established.

Armenia yesterday reported that “fierce combat” with Azerbaijani forces took place overnight near the town of Shusha, a key stronghold in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.