A Saudi court yesterday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants to between seven and 20 years, state media reported.

The government project to provide basic literacy to people aged 15 and above has failed to meet its target for the third consecutive year as more than 21 lakh people in the age group are still illiterate.

The Chinese embassy in Dhaka has regretted sending gifts to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on August 15, a controversial birthday of the former prime minister.

Bangladesh and India will hold the foreign ministerial-level sixth Joint Consultative Commission meeting later this month to review the relationship between the two neighbours.

Dr Adam Malik, foreign minister of Indonesia, admits at a press conference today that he has been working as a go-between for reconciliation between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

At a time when many are struggling to make ends meet due to coronavirus-induced economic meltdown, a recent rise in the prices of several daily essentials, including onion, has added insult to their injuries.

With possible arrival of the vaccine for the Covid-19 in the months ahead, comes a bigger challenge for Bangladesh.

The High Court yesterday scrapped a tribunal’s verdict in the case filed over the death of Rajshahi University student Wahida Sifat in 2015.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman summoned Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Kamal Hossain from Italy today for urgent talks on constitutional matters. The law minister flew to Geneva from Italy and held talks with Bangabandhu.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said the actual motive behind the attack on UNO Wahida Khanam should be found out through a judicial probe.

At places, there are no canals where they were said to exist. In other places, iron bridges that were supposed to be there are missing, with bamboo bridges taking their place at some sites.

Attackers with knives killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another yesterday before three assailants were shot dead in a firefight, the security force said, labelling it a “terrorist” act.

Leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement, both enemies of Israel, have met to discuss diplomatic normalisation between the Jewish state and Arab countries, a report said yesterday.

Turkey yesterday voiced disappointment over majority-Muslim Kosovo’s decision to recognise Israel and set up its mission in Jerusalem.

An international team of salvage experts arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday to assess damage to a fire-stricken oil tanker off the east coast, officials said, as fear mounted for an environmental disaster if there is a leak.

A massive fire on a stricken oil tanker off Sri Lanka’s coast has been extinguished, the island nation’s navy said yesterday, as international salvage experts began to assess the damage over fears of an environmental disaster if there is a leak.

A Bangladeshi was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force along Telkupi border in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj on Saturday night.

About 90 percent of Sinovac Biotech Ltd employees and their families have taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by the Chinese firm under the country’s emergency use programme, its chief executive said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump has demanded the Fox News network fire its national security correspondent after she confirmed claims he had disparaged the military - a bombshell that has dogged him for two days.

Rab yesterday took four suspended policemen on a four-day remand for the second time in a case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.