Four drug peddlers were killed in a gunfight between two groups of dealers in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, said police.

A total of 260 employees of the agriculture ministry and its subordinate offices have been infected with Covid-19 and five of them have died, a PID handout said yesterday.

Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the world be able to beat it, Tedros added at a virtual news briefing in Geneva.

Flood situation in some districts worsened yesterday as a number of rivers were flowing above the danger marks.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had a sleepless night yesterday. He was examined by a three-member medical board soon after his admission in London Clinic.

After a sharp fall in crime rate during the first few days of coronavirus pandemic, crimes like theft, robbery and mugging have recently taken an upward turn.

Md Israfil Alam, Awami League lawmaker from Naogaon-6, died at a city hospital yesterday.

A local Swechhasebak League leader died last night, over a week after he was stabbed allegedly by a police informant in Bogura.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by multiple assaulters in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila early yesterday and six people, including an underaged boy, were arrested in connection with the incident.

Iran has moved a mock-up US aircraft carrier to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, satellite images show, suggesting it will use the look-alike vessel for target practice in war games in a Gulf shipping channel vital to world oil exports.

Two alleged robbers were killed in a “shootout” with Rab members in Gazipur city early yesterday.

Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was shown arrested yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Nations in Asia imposed new restrictions yesterday and an abrupt British quarantine on travellers from Spain threw Europe’s summer reopening into disarray, as the world confronted the prospect of a second wave of Covid-19 infections.

Libya’s UN-recognised government has disavowed a visit by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, a champion of the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Moamer Gaddafi whose standing has plummeted since the uprising.

A bomb in a Syria border town controlled by Turkey and its Syrian proxies killed at least eight people, including six civilians, yesterday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will today inaugurate the “Dhaka-OIC Youth Capital 2020” virtually, connecting youths from OIC countries and beyond.

The Jatiya Party yesterday removed Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post of the party’s secretary general and replaced him with Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said Pakistan tried to “backstab” India despite New Delhi’s efforts to keep friendly ties as he paid tribute to the Indian armed forces on the 21st anniversary of Kargil war in 1999.

The authorities of Dhaka University have suspended its assistant registrar Sharmin Jahan, the owner of Aparajita International, for tarnishing the image of the university by supplying fake N95 masks to BSMMU’s Covid-19 isolation unit.

In an appeal to the heads of the governments of USSR, USA, UK, France, Yugoslavia, Japan and India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman sought their active support for Bangladesh’s membership in the UN.