An accused in a case who confessed of raping and killing a class-V female student, who was later found alive in Narayanganj, alleged that police brutally tortured him into confessing.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis yesterday said Turkey should drop “threats” against his country if talks on reducing tension in the eastern Mediterranean are to begin.

The situations of about four lakh Bangladeshi expatriates, mainly migrant workers, in Qatar are set to improve as the Gulf country recently made some major changes to its labour laws for workers’ protection.

Seventy-six wealthy nations are now committed to joining a global Covid-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots, the project’s co-lead said on Wednesday.

A Bangladeshi citizen was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Pakhiura border in Nageshwariupazila of Kurigram early yesterday.

Asia has registered more than 100,000 deaths linked to the coronavirus since it first emerged in December, according to an AFP tally based on official sources yesterday.

Canada and the Netherlands have decided to intervene in the matter of the Rohingya genocide case filed by the Gambia at International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November last year.

The BNP yesterday described the National Online Media Policy 2017 (Amendment 2020) recently approved by the cabinet as another black law to “gag the media”.

Three Arab countries -- Egypt, Iraq and Syria -- will place Bangladesh’s point of view before the ensuing Foreign Ministers’ Conference of the Arab countries commencing in Cairo from September 9, 1972. This is disclosed to Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad in Dhaka today.

The positivity rate for Covid-19 testing in the country has come down to lowest 14.96 percent in more than three months as the health directorate reported 2,158 new cases in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.

Shyamal Biswas, assistant officer, store of The Daily Star, died from Covid-19 yesterday. He was 53.

French President Emmanuel Macron met his Iraqi counterpart yesterday on his first official visit to Baghdad, where he insisted the war-scarred country should reassert its “sovereignty” despite simmering US-Iran tensions.

A muezzin was hacked to death in Gangni upazila of Meherpur yesterday.

Reputed around the world, scientist Dr Bijon Kumar Sil says he has been working for the love of his motherland Bangladesh and its people and not for money.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 52 bank accounts of Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and its Managing Director Masud Parvez in connection with a money laundering case.

Australia has fallen into recession for the first time in three decades and Brazil’s economy shrank by almost 10 percent because of the coronavirus, leaving China as the only major nation still recording economic growth during the pandemic.

Acting Prime Minister Syed Nazrul Islam has a talk with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today.

Suspended officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das and some others were accused in two more murder cases filed with a Cox’s Bazar court yesterday.

The Directorate General of Health Services has informed the High Court that 12,543 private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres have applied for renewal of their licences.

The health directorate reported 35 deaths due to novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.