Parliament is set to go into its ninth session today after a 59-day recess as the last (budget) session was prorogued on July 9.

Acting prime minister Syed Nazrul Islam has talked over telephone today with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is now in Geneva for convalescing after his gall stone operation.

A total of 36 employees of Savar Govt College, who were recruited temporarily 12 years ago, are facing uncertainty regarding the permanence of their jobs after the institution declared itself to be nationalised in 2018.

The US election is officially open: North Carolina on Friday launched vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, which is getting uglier by the hour.

India and China traded blame for rising tensions over their disputed Himalayan border yesterday following their highest level meeting since a deadly clash in June.

Sudan yesterday declared a three-month national state of emergency after record-breaking torrential floods that cost 99 lives.

Abu Nayeem noticed an acrid smell of gas right after stepping inside Pashchim Talla Baitus Salam Mosque of Narayanganj on Friday night to say the Esha prayers. The smell became so overpowering that it made it difficult for him to stay inside for long.

An extremely powerful typhoon was barrelling towards southwestern Japan yesterday as authorities issued evacuation advisories to thousands of residents, warning of unprecedented violent winds, heavy rain and high waves.

A female official of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) was seriously injured after the wheels of a bus ran over her right leg in Banani area of Dhaka yesterday noon.

India became the third country to cross four million coronavirus cases yesterday, also setting a new global record for a daily surge in infections and closing in on Brazil’s total as the second-highest in the world.

When he was the officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, Pradeep Kumar Das earned such a name that parents put small children to sleep by telling them scary stories about the OC.

Iran has let the UN nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff, while Tehran’s stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further, quarterly reports by the agency said yesterday.

The probe committee formed by the home ministry will submit its report tomorrow over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

The defence ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow -- the highest level face-to-face political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May, government officials said yesterday.

Fourteen Rohingya-led rights groups in Cox’s Bazar have demanded that Myanmar ensures voting rights of all Rohingyas, including those in Bangladesh, and their participation in the national elections due on November 8

Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a black hole -- the oldest ever detected -- that shouldn’t even exist according to the current understanding of cosmic monsters so dense not even light can escape their gravitational pull.

Dr Adam Malik, Indonesian foreign minister, who flew into Dhaka today, brings with him a new proposal for a rapprochement between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The World Health Organization yesterday said it did not expect widespread immunisation against the coronavirus until mid-2021, despite growing expectations in the US and beyond that a vaccine could be released within weeks.

An Australian writer detained in China for 19 months on spying charges has insisted he is innocent, his lawyer told AFP yesterday, after being allowed to see his client for the first time.

The Afghan government said Thursday it had released 400 Taliban prisoners under an exchange deal with the militants, except for “a few” opposed by foreign nations, and expected peace negotiations to start soon.