The Padma Bridge is not someone’s ancestral property. It has been built with the state’s initiative, and Khaleda Zia laid its first foundation stone, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

At least 14 lawmakers of ruling Awami League and opposition parties yesterday expressed dissatisfaction as people are not getting proper healthcare services due to poor state of upazila health complexes and district hospitals in their constituencies.

The first Biman flight carrying 410 pilgrims for this year’s Hajj left Dhaka yesterday morning without the devotees completing their immigration procedures for the Saudi end, despite the government saying they would be able to do so.

The World Health Organization yesterday said that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries, while maintaining that the global risk level was moderate.

Australia yesterday accused the Chinese military of putting an Australian Defence Force flight crew at risk when their plane was intercepted late last month over the South China Sea.

Officials in British prime minister Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party expect a challenge to his leadership this week and have pencilled in a vote for Wednesday, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured early yesterday in a Tennessee city after gunfire erupted and fleeing vehicles struck bystanders, police said.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday announced that there will be no Junior School Certificate and equivalent Junior Dakhil Certificate exams this year.

A 22-year-old polytechnic student was stabbed to death on Friday by what police said were sexual harassers in Bogura town.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by four youths in Chattogram’s Patiya upazila on Friday night.

Iga Swiatek cruised to her second French Open title by dominating teenager Coco Gauff in the final on Saturday, as the world number one claimed her 35th successive victory.

Considering the robust partnership among the two countries, the US can raise concerns over various issues in Bangladesh, said Ned Price, spokesperson for the US State Department.

The government is not keeping a separate allocation for vaccines in the next fiscal year’s budget as it pulls back from vaccine procurement given the high inoculation rate and low infection rates.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused the “enemy”, a reference mainly to the United States, of seeking to use protests to weaken the Islamic republic.

Sri Lanka’s main airport yesterday denied the island nation’s government was behind a decision to detain an Aeroflot aircraft, after Russia lodged a diplomatic protest over the move.

Four people were killed and another was injured as a small truck collided with a train in Hasnabad area in Narsingdi’s Raipura upazila around 12:00 noon yesterday.

The budget session, which will also be the 18th session of the 11th parliament, will begin today.

Ukraine yesterday said its forces were managing to push back against Russian troops in fierce fighting in Severodonetsk despite Russia “throwing all its power” into capturing the strategic eastern city.

Rab yesterday arrested seven men for their alleged involvement in cutting off the wrist of a teacher in Kushtia.

A physically challenged minor girl was raped allegedly by a teenage boy in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila on Friday.