Ugandan special envoy JN Kakamba has handed over a personal message from President General Idi Amin to Prime Minister Bangabandhu

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said the country’s forex reserves could be invested in good projects which would be sponsored by the government.

For the first time in the country, the government is going to hire a private company to check motor vehicles’ fitness with machines.

The High Court yesterday accepted for hearing the appeal filed by Ayesha Siddika Minni challenging the Barguna court verdict that convicted and sentenced her to death in her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder case.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Mohammad Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah to jail after rejecting their bail prayers in a case filed over the assault on navy official Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan.

Institute of Public Health Director Dr Abdur Rahim and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Director Prof Dr Uttam Kumar Barua have been removed from their posts on different allegations and made officers on special duty.

Five passengers, including four of a family, of an ambulance met a tragic end to their lives when it collided head-on with a truck in Kushtia Sadar upazila yesterday.

Just about the size of Cumilla town, the island of Bhasan Char in Nokhali’s Hatiya sub-district has four layers of protection from natural disasters like cyclone.

The committee, formed by the Lalmonirhat district administration to investigate the brutal killing of Shahidunnabi Jewel in Patgram’s Burimari, did not find any proof of desecrating the Holy Quran.

Austria and Greece were set to become the latest European nations yesterday to impose spirit-crushing curbs to combat the coronavirus surge, with a deadly terrorist attack in Vienna ahead of a partial lockdown compounding the misery.

Austria yesterday said the only known gunman in a shooting rampage across Vienna that left four people dead was an Islamic State group supporter, as a manhunt was under way for other possible suspects.

The attackers who vandalised and torched four Hindu houses and a family temple in Korbanpur village of Cumilla’s Muradnagar on Sunday, did so even as the issue that inflamed them -- a Facebook post that they said hurt religious sentiments -- was being resolved.

The government is mulling over quarantining all passengers from abroad as it prepares to fight a possible spike in novel coronavirus cases in the coming winter.

Speaking at the Gono Parishad during the third reading of the Constitution Bill today the Leader of the House Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman says this is the first time in history that Bangalees as a nation made a constitution to hold aloft the banner of their sovereignty.

Nigel Farage, the driving force behind Brexit, was yesterday set to relaunch his political party as “Reform UK”, with a main focus to oppose the government’s coronavirus lockdowns.

A rape case was filed against Mohammad Ali, deputy general manager of Biman Poultry Complex (BPC), a subsidiary of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, in Savar’s Ganakbari.

Germany yesterday led a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions in Europe that have triggered anger and frustration across the continent, while the Covid-19 crisis in the United States deepened.

The possible second wave of coronavirus outbreak will be dealt with through a cooperative effort, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

A pregnant woman was killed in Pabna’s Atghoria upazila early yesterday.

Four rights organisations filed a writ petition on Sunday challenging the legality of the marital rape exception clause in section 375 of the penal code.