Senior diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami will be the next Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, succeeding Riva Ganguly Das.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will leave London for Geneva on August 21 to recuperate from his gallbladder surgery. The prime minister is likely to stay in Geneva for 10 days.

At least 12,746 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Italy have applied for regularisation under an Italian government-declared amnesty programme which is scheduled to end today.

Students were “stunned and aggrieved” and demanded a revision after their O and A level results were downgraded by Cambridge International board, which marked students based on a formula in the absence of the usual exams due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Seven people were killed and three others injured in two road accidents in Lalmonirhat and Pabna yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission quizzed former Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services Abul Kalam Azad over the Regent Hospital scam yesterday for the second straight day.

Major (retd) Sinha was the operation officer of Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf and played an active role in the anti-narcotics operations.

The US government is looking at easing regulations on shower fittings following complaints from President Donald Trump who has regularly railed against water conservation rules in his quest for “perfect hair.”

Temperature checks, hand sanitisers, and face masks are being enforced across Pyongyang’s public transport system as North Korea intensifies its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Iraq has urged its Arab allies to help persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, where they have been raiding Kurdish militant positions, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 13-year-old boy in Jaluapara area of Kishoreganj town on Wednesday afternoon.

Without a job and terrified of being left homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, Manuel Acero had no other option but to enlist in the US Army.

A sub-inspector of the capital’s Kadamtoli police station, Nazmul Huda, and eight others, were sued in an abduction and extortion case yesterday.

The dwarf planet Ceres -- long believed to be a barren space rock -- is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, according to new research.

A Bogura court yesterday placed a Jubo League leader and his two cohorts on a five-day remand on charges of fraud.

The number of deaths around the world linked to the coronavirus topped 750,000 yesterday as many countries toughened curbs and expanded their quarantine lists following an alarming surge in infections.

Three teenage boys yesterday died after sustaining critical injuries in a clash at a juvenile correctional facility in Jashore.

Medicine procurement for police personnel and their family members under different units outside Dhaka is being centralised to stop irregularities in the process.

Bangabandhu recalls India’s “invaluable support” to Bangladesh’s struggle for freedom. Bangabandhu, in a message to Indian Prime Minister

Police in Britain were handed new powers yesterday to stop, search and detain people at ports of entry on suspicion of involvement in “hostile state activity”.