Three Bangladeshi men, allegedly with no travel documents, and a female private taxi driver were arrested at a roadblock in Jalan Napoh, Changlun, near Jitra in Malaysia.

The daily death toll from Covid-19 rose again yesterday.

Two Supreme Court lawyers served a legal notice on the authorities concerned of the government yesterday, requesting them to suspend the director general of the postal directorate claiming that the DG met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina despite testing positive for Covid-19.

US President Donald Trump warned Friday that the results of the November 3 presidential election could take weeks or months to determine.

Police yesterday arrested a sub-inspector of police in a case filed over stabbing a man, who died the next day, in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila on August 1.

The flood situation has worsened in at least six districts of the southern coastal region due to rainfall and high tide.

Five months after Covid-19 cases first emerged in Pabna, the district health authorities say it is much better placed than other districts in terms of number of cases.

Rab yesterday took three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) into custody for interrogation in a case filed over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

To avoid animosity with locals responsible for the deaths of wild elephants in the Chattogram region, forest department officials manipulate autopsy reports by attributing the deaths to natural causes and rarely file cases, thus sparing the killers of a critically endangered species.

A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is convalescing in Geneva had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad the night before.

Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tripoli announced a ceasefire on Friday and the leader of a rival parliament in eastern Libya also appealed for a halt to hostilities.

Senior Saudi security commanders were among a string of officials sacked over graft allegations at tourism projects, state media said yesterday, in the government’s latest anti-corruption purge.

UN Refugee Agency has called for renewed support and lasting solutions for the displaced Rohingya communities both within and outside of Myanmar.

International conspiracies connected to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s assassination should be investigated, scholars from home and abroad told a webinar on Thursday.

A Kurigram court has summoned the case diary of the assault and attempted murder case filed by journalist Ariful Islam Regan against former deputy commissioner of Kurigram Sultana Pervin and three assistant commissioners.

Joe Biden has promised to end the “darkness” of Donald Trump’s presidency in a speech accepting the Democratic nomination with an impassioned call for unity and a return to optimism.

Four members of a family were killed and two others injured as a passenger bus ran over a three-wheelers in Tangail Sadar upazila yesterday.

Scientists have long envisioned building tiny robots capable of navigating environments that are inaccessible or too dangerous for humans -- but finding ways to keep them powered and moving has been impossible to achieve.

A seventh-grader rape victim was abducted allegedly by her rapist and his family members in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram on Thursday.