Rescuers raced against the clock yesterday to save people buried under rubble as hundreds spent a terrified night in tents after a powerful earthquake claimed 28 lives in Turkey and Greece.

Police yesterday arrested a young man for hurting religious sentiments on a Facebook post in Dinajpur’s Kaharol Upazila of Dinajpur.

Malaysia is considering issuing temporary work permits to illegal foreign workers to overcome a shortage of expatriate workers in its oil palm and rubber industries, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said.

A valiant freedom fighter was killed allegedly by his neighbours during a village arbitration over a trifling matter in Basail upazila of Tangail on Friday evening.

Legendary actor Sean Connery, best known for playing fictional spy James Bond, has died at the age of 90, leading to an outpouring of tributes for one of Britain’s best-loved screen heroes.

The Gonoparishad adopts 16 articles with nine minor amendments moved by the members of the ruling party on October 31, 1972. Of the 25

Twenty-five people infected with Covid-19 died in the country in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

A knife-wielding attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice yesterday.

Around 80 percent of the Covid-19 patients who died had comorbidity, finds a government study.

The number of extrajudicial killings has dropped significantly in the country as only nine such cases have been recorded since August, said rights group Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was working with a goal to make Bangladesh economically self-reliant and brighten its image so that its people can move in the world stage with dignity.

The Indo-China and US-China tensions can have a deep negative impact on the cooperation within the region, including Bangladesh’s economic cooperation with China, two foreign relations analysts have said.

Winding up the general debate on the Constitution Bill in the Gono Parishad today, Dr Kamal Hossain, minister for law and parliamentary affairs,

Valiant freedom fighter and a doyen in the country’s leftist politics Haider Anwar Khan Juno died yesterday at a city hospital.

A man was beaten and burnt to death by a mob on Burimari Union Parishad premises on allegations of hurting religious sentiment in the district’s Patgram upazila yesterday evening.

Italy-bound expatriates are facing challenges to get back to their workplaces as many are still waiting for air tickets.

A college girl from a minority community was arrested on Wednesday night on charges of hurting religious sentiments in Dinajpur’s Parbatipur upazila.

Top Turkish officials condemned a caricature scorning President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo yesterday, calling it a “disgusting effort” to “spread its cultural racism and hatred”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Bangladesh Army to be always ready to face any threat from home and abroad to protect the constitution and sovereignty of the motherland.

A day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo extended strong support for India’s efforts to defend its sovereignty, China yesterday responded by saying that boundary question is a bilateral matter and there is no space for a third party to intervene.