A trial of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe scheduled for yesterday in Iran has been postponed, a British lawmaker said on Sunday, citing a conversation with Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to virtually inaugurate the newly-constructed Bangladesh Chancery Complex in Ankara today.

Crews were to resume searching for the dead yesterday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western U.S. states, where millions of acres have burned in weeks and “mass fatality” incidents are feared in Oregon.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced six people to death for killing a couple -- a retired government primary schoolteacher and his wife -- to grab their land in Tangail Sadar upazila in 2017.

Austria and Britain were among European nations grappling with mounting coronavirus infections yesterday, while restrictions were eased in the South Korean capital Seoul and work resumed on a much-hyped potential vaccine.

The High Court yesterday questioned the lower court order that granted bail to contractor Shahadat Hossain in a case filed over last year’s infamous corruption in purchasing furniture and household products for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

A man reportedly stabbed three people including his wife and house owner to death in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi early yesterday.

The number of Bangladeshi migrants returning to the country has increased sharply in the last three weeks compared to the previous weeks of the pandemic.

A court in Chattogram yesterday started trial proceedings of a corruption case against former Awami League lawmaker of Cox’s Bazar-4 Abdur Rahman Bodi.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members have called on Myanmar to put an immediate end to violence in Rakhine state and create conditions conducive for Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arrives in Dhaka today at 4:25pm. President Justice Abu Sayeed Choudhury greets the prime minister.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric yesterday endorsed early parliamentary elections set for June 2021, following his first meeting in nearly a year with a senior United Nations official.

Greece will build a permanent migrant reception centre on Lesbos to replace the overcrowded refugee camp destroyed by a fire last week, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said yesterday, calling for closer European involvement.

Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel, with a leading Shia cleric yesterday calling on the people of the region to resist.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday he was “deeply concerned” over the use of force in Belarus against peaceful protesters, stressing that the country’s crisis can only be resolved “by the Belarusian people.”

Maj Gen Md Main Ullah Chowdhury of Bangladesh Army has been appointed as the deputy force commander of United Nations Peacekeeping Mission.

Former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar, also an accused in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case, was moved to Chattogram Central Jail from Cox’s Bazar Jail yesterday.

Police have arrested four youths in Bhola’s Monpura upazila over gang-raping a schoolgirl 10 days ago.

China yesterday released five Indian nationals it detained in a region bordering Tibet, the Indian army said, days after the two sides agreed to dial down tensions on their disputed frontier.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said Bangladesh-India connectivity directly and positively impacts both India’s North East and Bangladesh.