Katrina Cobain unwraps a parcel and removes its precious contents, slowly and delicately as if she were handling an ancient scroll of papyrus.

The Gono Parishad adopts all 153 Articles with some amendments. The House also adopts the first, second, third and fourth schedules with a

Around 25,000 Malaysia returnees now face an uncertain future with Kuala Lumpur still sticking to its decision not to take in any foreign worker till December 31 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Five more people were arrested yesterday over the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat five days ago.

The US presidential election is expected to see a record turnout, with polls analysts attributing this to the Americans’ bid for a change.

Millions of census-takers yesterday began knocking on doors across China for a once-a-decade head count of the world’s largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers.

Turkey’s foreign minister arrived in Azerbaijan yesterday for talks over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after Baku’s arch-enemy Armenia requested security assistance from Russia.

A domestic help and a 12-year-old schoolgirl have been raped in two separate incidents in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Erfan Salim and his bodyguard Zahidul Mollah on a fresh two-day remand each in a case filed over the assault and attempted murder of a Navy officer in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new four-week coronavirus lockdown in England, which will join several European countries in imposing the measure for a second time, as Slovakia took a different tack and began testing its entire population.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam yesterday brushed aside the allegations raised by some US senators against Rab, terming those propaganda against Bangladesh.

The imported onion cannot be sold for any less than Tk 55 a kg by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh or other retailers because it costs Tk 42-43 to import each kg of the spice, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said yesterday.

It was just a rumour about desecrating the Holy Quran that led to the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Md Sahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat, says a NHRC probe body.

Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an “Aladdin’s lamp” for $93,000 -- and even conjured up a fake genie -- have been arrested in India, an official said yesterday.

The much talked about Article 70 of the Constitution Bill relating to the vacation of seat on resignation or expulsion from political party is discussed today at the Constituent Assembly.

Abul Hasnat left us yesterday at the age of 75.

A private university in Bandarban spent Tk 1.35 crore of the government’s fund to construct its water supply channel.

A garbage dump, created on around five bighas of land of an NGO in Bogura, is facing DoE censure for not having an environmental clearance certificate.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday vowed to eradicate poverty from the country through the combined efforts of all.

Indian Kashmir was hit by its biggest general strike yesterday since losing its semi-autonomous status last year, with local anger brewing over a new measure allowing outsiders to buy land in the disputed territory.