French Prime Minister Jean Castex yesterday said that because of the rapid spread of the coronavirus, the government will extend the 2100 to 0600 curfew to 38 more departments, starting from Friday at midnight.

Shops were shuttered and streets empty yesterday as Nigeria’s largest city Lagos was locked down under curfew after unrest flared following the shooting of protesters.

Two women accused of stabbing two other women wearing Muslim headscarves near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and trying to rip off their veils have been charged with assault and racist slurs, legal sources told AFP yesterday.

With time fast running out, Britain and the European Union start yesterday intensified negotiations in a new, final push to try to secure a deal to protect billions of dollars of post-Brexit trade between the neighbours.

The Republican-led US Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime US Supreme Court seat despite a Democratic boycott of the meeting, clearing the way for a full Senate debate and vote on confirmation.

Three teenage girls were raped by their neighbours in Savar, Narayanganj and Mymensingh on Wednesday and a 65-year-old retired sergeant was arrested for raping a woman for the last nine months in Noakhali.

A 55-year-old woman was killed allegedly by her son and six others in Noakhali’s Subornachar upazila.

Twenty-four people have died from Covid-19 in the country in the past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Wholesalers have expressed concerns that the price of potatoes may not come down anytime soon as they are under pressure from a section of hoarders, who recently bought potato stocks at cold storages, to sell the vegetable at a price higher than the government-fixed wholesale rate of Tk 30 a kg.

Nepalese drugmaker Anmol Healthcare Ltd might buy two million shots of BANCOVID, the vaccine candidate being developed by Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech Ltd, officials said.

Expatriate workers flying to Italy on a special Biman flight will have to pay about Tk 77,000 for a ticket, over twice the amount they used to pay before the pandemic.

Bangladesh will attend the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee meeting in New Delhi on October 30 as an observer.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena the chief executives of Twitter and Facebook after the social media platforms decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son.

Potato was sold for Tk 42 to Tk 48 a kg in retail markets in the capital yesterday, a day after the government fixed the retail price at Tk 35.

About Tk 785 crore in plant and machinery, bank balance and cash have been transferred by the West Pakistani industrialists and big industry houses to West Pakistan on the eve of the liberation of Bangladesh, according to a preliminary survey conducted by the government.

The European Union yesterday told Britain to make up its mind on Brexit, putting the onus back on London to unlock trade talks as the bloc’s chief negotiator said an agreement was still within reach with 10 weeks to go.

The US Senate will vote on Monday, eight days ahead of the presidential election, to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Senate Majority Leader said Tuesday.

Two men, alleged members of soil lifting syndicates, were killed being crushed under soil and another sustained injuries while they were illegally razing a hill in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Vandals have damaged more than 70 artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin’s most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a targeted attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks.

Former president Barack Obama was scheduled to hold his first rally in support of US election front runner Joe Biden, while Donald Trump campaigned frantically and accused his opponent, who stayed home in Delaware, of going “into hiding.”