A truck driver was beaten dead by a mob at Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila after his vehicle ran over and killed two goats.

Six people, including a Chhatra League activist, were killed in separate road accidents in Mymensingh and Gopalganj in the last two days.

Two prosecution witnesses gave judicial statements to a local court yesterday in the case of the attack on Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam.

Thirty-two Covid-19 patients died and 1,567 new cases were detected in the 24 hours preceding 8:30am yesterday.

A fierce political battle shaped up over the future of the US Supreme Court yesterday, with President Donald Trump saying he would quickly name a successor to liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, a move that would tip the court further to the right.

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the real-life hero of the Oscar-winning film “The Pianist,” go under the hammer in Warsaw next week.

The Draft Constitution for the country has been finalised and sent for printing, which would be complete before the current month is out.

Chairmen of all educational boards will sit in a meeting on Thursday to discuss how to hold the postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations.

Large parts of Europe yesterday geared up for broad new restrictions to stop the coronavirus and Israel became the first developed country to enforce a second nationwide shutdown, as infections worldwide topped the 30-million mark.

Belarus’ borders remained open yesterday after President Alexander Lukashenko announced they would be closed as he warned of a possible “war” with neighbouring countries, whom he accuses of supporting a burgeoning opposition movement.

Police arrested a man on the charge of stabbing his wife and three other members of his in-laws’ family in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila on Thursday.

The FBI is increasingly worried about possible violent clashes between ideologically-motivated extremist groups before the November election, director Chris Wray said Thursday.

Taiwan scrambled fighter jets yesterday as 18 Chinese aircraft buzzed the island, crossing the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, in response to a senior US official holding talks in Taipei.

The BNP yesterday harshly criticised The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam for his commentary on democracy and alleged that it was against the party.

The contracts of 25 road and culvert construction projects, worth more than Tk 88 crore, have been cancelled by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Faridpur.

Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo, and elephants bigger than any species seen today.

A five-member Bangladesh delegation will be in New York during the General Assembly session of the United Nations which commences today.

Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday.

Rich nations representing a fraction of the global population have already bought up over half the promised Covid-19 vaccine stocks, a study showed, as US President Donald Trump pledged to begin inoculating Americans within weeks.

Due to the declining number of Covid-19 patients, the government has decided three designated hospitals in the capital would no longer treat such patients.