Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the country’s south, amid outcry from international press freedom advocates.

An exceedingly rare 102-carat flawless white diamond sold for $15.7 million at an online auction in Hong Kong on Monday evening.

US President Donald Trump faced a backlash yesterday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the Covid-19 disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the country and put him in hospital.

Ayesha Siddika Minni yesterday submitted an appeal with the High Court challenging her conviction and death sentence by a Barguna court over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

Law enforcers arrested six people, including a madrasa teacher, in five districts in the last two days on charges of rape and sodomy.

The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division is yet to settle whether executive magistrates can operate mobile courts legally, although the issue has been pending with it for over three years.

A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday, without elaborating.

With railways projects under Indian Line of Credit and grants already facing delays, the project directors have pointed out some issues in implementing the work, which was taken up to boost connectivity among neighbouring countries.

Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize yesterday for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury said.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today presides over a high-level conference relating to the distribution of cotton yarns in the country.

All the agencies working as part of the anti-smuggling machinery along the borders of the country have been placed under the unified

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday expressed “full solidarity” with Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) during a meeting in Istanbul, his office said.

A couple was found dead at their house in Gobindapur village of Chuadanga’s Damurhuda on Sunday evening.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court orders that stayed trial proceedings of five separate cases filed against Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus over sacking five employees of Grameen Communications.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday said he will self quarantine for 14 days after a minister who attended a high-level government meeting to discuss coronavirus developments on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19.

RT-PCR labs across the country conducted 20,01,431 coronavirus tests until yesterday morning and 3,70,132 of them (18.49 percent) produced positive results.

Donald Trump’s doctors were set to decide yesterday whether he is recovered enough to leave hospital and continue Covid-19 treatment at the White House, as the president signalled his determination to return to the election campaign with an early morning tweetstorm.

Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami, arrived in Dhaka through Tripura yesterday, three days after the former Indian envoy Riva Ganguly Das left for Delhi.

At least eight people have been arrested since Sunday in connection with rape incidents in five districts, while two others were sued yesterday over the rape of a girl.

The lone Bangladeshi coronavirus vaccine developer Globe Biotech Ltd said their coronavirus vaccine --named BANCOVID-- has shown high efficacy in pre-clinical trial on mice.