The UN Security Council meets today and considers Bangladesh’s candidature for membership of the United Nations.

Chinese entrants in the race to put autonomous vehicles on the road are bringing “robotaxis” online in hopes that a hired-car format can be the key to unlocking wide acceptance of the futuristic technology.

The chehlum of Latifur Rahman, the late chairman and managing director of Transcom Group, was held at his Gulshan home after Maghreb prayers yesterday.

Illegal silica sand lifting at various quarries in Moulvibazar continues unabated while the Bureau of Mineral Development is yet to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the extraction zones despite a High Court order two years ago.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the distribution of aid to the border city of Kaesong after the area was locked down last month to fight the coronavirus, state media said yesterday.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested five people, including four women, in connection with the rape of a teenage girl at Luxury Beauty Parlour in the city’s Khulshi area.

Road communication in some districts has taken a hit as prolonged flooding has damaged a large portion of roads and bridges there.

Faced with the coronavirus collapse in travellers, Taiwanese airlines have begun offering sight-seeing “flights to nowhere” on their passenger jets -- including flight attendant lessons for children.

It is reported that Bangabandhu would decide within two days the date of his departure for convalescence in Switzerland in response to an invitation by the Swiss government.

The death toll from an Indian passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been seriously injured, a senior government official said yesterday.

At least 17 people were killed in four separate road accidents in Mymensingh, Chuadanga, Narayanganj and Manikganj between Friday night and yesterday afternoon.

A huge blast rocked a military base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu near a stadium yesterday, killing at least eight people and injuring 14, emergency workers said, and the militant group al Shabaab claimed responsiblity.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday launched her re-election campaign promising a “laser-like” focus on boosting jobs and economic growth hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed Europe on Friday to become the region with the most Covid-19 deaths.

France and Germany have quit talks on reforming the World Health Organization in frustration at attempts by the United States to lead the negotiations, despite its decision to leave the WHO, three officials told Reuters.

National award-winning music director and composer Alauddin Ali has been put on life support at a city hospital.

Police recovered two throat-slit bodies from a waterbody near Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail yesterday morning.

Divisions with higher populations are witnessing higher numbers of Covid-19 deaths.

Many Asian countries have seen a drop in coronavirus infection rate in the last couple of months but in Bangladesh’s case it remained over 20 percent.

India’s official coronavirus case tally hit two million yesterday, doubling in three weeks as the pandemic sweeps into smaller cities and rural areas, with experts warning the real toll could be much higher.