Mumbai has become the first Indian city to introduce female figures on its traffic lights, a move welcomed by women’s rights campaigners as a step towards greater inclusivity.

Although the floodwater started receding hundreds of people remained waterlogged in northern and north-eastern region of the country.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned yesterday that the world faces a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic and said that getting students safely back to the classroom must be “a top priority.”

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is now progressing well, today discusses some official business with the Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner in London.

Four alleged drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with police in Cox’s Bazar and Sylhet from the beginning of Eid holidays to Monday.

The government was hoping there would be no recurrence of the waste of rawhide last Eid-ul-Azha.

At least 192 railway stingers and 220 roadway decks, supposed to be used for construction of Padma Bridge, fell into the Padma in between 2:00pm and 8:00pm on Friday as erosion hit a part of the bridge project’s construction yard.

China’s new security law has cast a threatening shadow over Hong Kong’s dynamic book industry, with anxious publishers combing through back catalogues for potentially “subversive” material, and looking to Taiwan as a safe haven for printing fresh titles.

Police arrested three leaders of the Awami League and its associate bodies, including the president of the party’s Faridpur town unit, during the Eid holidays for their alleged involvement in money laundering.

Holocaust survivors launched a campaign Wednesday in which they plan to upload daily videos to Facebook urging CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove posts from the site that deny the Nazi genocide of Jews.

Bangladesh is the fourth most-seriously hit country in terms of the number of children affected by lead poisoning on a massive and previously unknown scale in the world, according to a new global report.

Australia yesterday reported a record number of new coronavirus infections and its deadliest day of the epidemic so far following a spike in cases at elderly-care homes.

Five people were arrested yesterday on charge of raping a girl in Galachipa upazila town of Patuakhali.

Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England, has vexed historians and archaeologists for centuries with its many mysteries: How was it built? What purpose did it serve? Where did its towering sandstone boulders come from?

Two people, including a former union parishad chairman, were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Bagerhat and Bandarban early yesterday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday raised the possibility of delaying the nation’s Nov 3 presidential election, though the Constitution bestows that power on Congress, not the president.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was operated upon yesterday at the London Clinic to remove a gallbladder stone, is showing gradual improvement since last night.

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday pressed charges against 26 people, including several local Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League leaders, in a case filed over the murder of two students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) in Dinajpur five years ago.

The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak has made palliative care services relatively inaccessible for patients with terminal illnesses, said doctors.

The government has again extended the closure of all educational institutions in the country until August 31 considering the coronavirus situation.