As suspended Sub-Inspector Nandadulal Rakshit made his confessional statement before a Cox’s Bazar court yesterday, it marked a month since Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan was killed at a police check post in Teknaf.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman tells Marcel Naville, president of the International Red Cross Societies, that Red Cross should take appropriate steps to deal with the question of physical safety, maintenance and repatriation of 5 lakh Bangalees trapped in Pakistan.

India yesterday accused China of “carrying out provocative military movements to change the status quo” along the tense border in eastern Ladakh two days ago, and said Indian troops “pre-empted” the Chinese troops’ move on the southern banks of Pangong Tso lake.

French authorities were yesterday searching for ways to limit the spread of coronavirus without a new lockdown as the country reported 7,379 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday.

Rab yesterday took three accused in the Major Sinha murder case in custody for the second phase of the investigation for four days.

The government is going to reinstate the previous bus fare from September 1 and will carry passengers with full capacity, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

A total of 2,131 people tested positive for coronavirus yesterday whereas 11,689 samples were tested in 92 labs across the country.

Bangabandhu is likely to return home by September 3 though he has not yet fully recovered, informs BSS. T

Building on a new hanging garden trend, a greenhouse atop a Montreal warehouse growing eggplants and tomatoes to meet demand for locally sourced foods has set a record as the largest in the world.

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), is being observed across the country today with due religious solemnity.

Undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait are at risk of facing deportation, as authorities in the Gulf country have recently decided to launch drive against illegal foreign workers there.

Mali military rulers yesterday said they were postponing their first meeting over the transfer of powers due to “organisational reasons” nearly two weeks after ousting the president in a coup.

At least 10 people were arrested in southern Sweden and several police officers were injured in violence which broke out after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said yesterday.

Indian Border Security Force has returned the body of a Bangladeshi cattle trader, 15 days after shooting him dead in the Indian territory.

A Bangladeshi woman and her daughter were found dead in an apartment in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh of Kuwait on Friday.

Thousands of people in Satkhira’s Assasuni upazila are in search of shelter, food and drinking water as their homes have been inundated by tidal surges coupled with heavy rainfall.

The Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on UN members to boost the numbers of women peacekeepers, diplomats said, seeing the move as a way to improve the effectiveness and credibility of the missions.

Canberra is open to the idea of New Zealand sending the Australian-born gunman behind the Christchurch mosque massacre back home to serve his life sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday.

He was trying to increase the strength of “Neo-JMB” and carry out subversive activities after collecting funds from different foreign nationals.

President Donald Trump tore into his election challenger Joe Biden as a threat to the “American Dream” in a bruising speech on Thursday night accepting the Republican nomination for a second term against a backdrop of racial tensions and the deadly coronavirus pandemic.