One Bangladeshi UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic died in a road accident and two others sustained injuries, said Inter Services Public Relation Directorate yesterday.

The Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford produces a similar immune response in both older and younger adults, and adverse responses were lower among the elderly, British drug maker AstraZeneca Plc said yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission will seek contempt of court order against Prashanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder who is allegedly involved in misappropriating over Tk 10,000 crore from four non-banking financial institutions.

The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus surpassed 4 lakh mark as the Directorate General of Health Services reported 1,436 new cases in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.

A Swechchhasebak Dal activist was killed in front a temple in Sabgram Bazar in Bogura’s Sadar upazila early yesterday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in New Delhi yesterday, kicking off a four-country Asia tour that he has said will focus on the “threats” posed by China.

Hundreds of Bangladeshi migrant workers employed by private companies in Qatar are facing difficulties returning to their workplaces as their online applications for re-entry permits, required due to the pandemic, have been rejected or are under process for an unduly long time.

The political bromance between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump leaves Britain and its transatlantic “special relationship” exposed if Joe Biden wins next week, just as the country needs all the friends it can get.

New fighting erupted between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces yesterday over the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh as both sides blamed each other for blocking a peaceful settlement to the conflict.

Chinese officials were racing yesterday to smother a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the country’s far northwest after 137 new infections were discovered.

Thousands of Iraqis yesterday marked the first anniversary of a protest movement against the country’s stagnant political class with rallies at Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square and its high-security Green Zone.

The World Health Organization’s coronavirus dashboard yesterday showed a third consecutive daily record high in the number of new confirmed cases.

Police arrested a man on charges of killing his son-in-law with hired assassins in a bid to obtain Tk 1 crore from his bank accounts.

The Detective Branch of Mymensingh police on Saturday arrested Khairul, 35, of Kawrat Paschimpara in the district’s Gouripur upazila, for allegedly killing the upazila’s Swechchasebak League leader Masudur Rahman Shuvra.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday sought Japan’s strong support in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

Lee Kun-hee, who built Samsung Electronics into a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died yesterday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s government has formed a trust with an initial fund of about Tk 4 crore in both cash and industrial units for the benefit of freedom fighters who had made supreme sacrifices with their blood,

A professor at Dhaka University has been sued under the Digital Security Act for making “derogatory” comments on religion during a talk show on a private television channel.

More than a dozen complaints of assault, blackmail and extortion, and verbal abuse of female visitors have been submitted to Jahangirnagar University authorities against its chief security officer Sudipta Shaheen in the four years since he took office.

Yousuf Mohamed Al Othman, foreign affairs minister of Qatar, has assured the Bangladesh envoy of issuing exceptional entry permits to stranded expatriate Bangladeshis in short time.