The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on five Iranian ship captains who delivered oil to Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it considers illegitimate.

A man was arrested on charges of raping a seven-year-old girl in Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand upazila early yesterday.

A Bangladeshi man suspected of cattle rustling was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila early yesterday.

The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark, the World Health Organization head said.

Three men died with symptoms of Covid-19 at the Khulna Medical College Hospital’s flu corner early yesterday.

Three robbers were killed and another was injured in a “gunfight” with police following a robbery incident in Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila early yesterday.

The University Grants Commission has urged the public universities to ensure online education for the third time to avoid possible session jams for Covid-19 shutdown.

The attorney general of Kuwait has decided to keep Bangladeshi lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam, accused of money laundering, human trafficking, visa trading and bribery, incarcerated for 21 days, reports the Arab Times.

The government has doled out a package to tide over about one lakh teachers and staffers of non-government schools and colleges that are outside the purview of the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme.

The cabinet meets today for several hours. The meeting presided over by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman takes some important decisions about utilisation of abandoned properties.

The US Supreme Court yesterday enhanced the ability of President Donald Trump’s administration to quickly deport illegal immigrants including asylum seekers with limited judicial review, handing him a victory in a case involving one of his signature issues in an election year.

US House Democrats blasted Attorney General William Barr at a hearing on Wednesday over accusations he had improperly meddled in criminal cases and antitrust probes for political gain, but they stopped short of pledging to take any steps to try and oust the nation’s top law enforcement official.

Heart patient Syed Shofiqul Alam, 75, from Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila, was admitted at the general ward of Sylhet’s North East Medical College Hospital on June 11 with fever.

A spokesperson of the foreign ministry informs that Bangladesh will apply for UN membership in the upcoming session of the General Assembly which will begin in the third week of September. According to UN rules, Bangladesh will submit its application 35 days before commencement of the session.

Eight people were killed and six others injured in road accidents in three districts on Tuesday.

The IMF yesterday laid out the unprecedented economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with $12 trillion forecasted to be wiped out worldwide, even as infections surge in Latin America and across large parts the US.

Associate professor and head of the orthopedics department at Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Dr Samirul Islam died from Covid-19 yesterday afternoon.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat early yesterday.

Survivors from a boat crammed with over 300 Rohingya Muslim refugees told Malaysian authorities that dozens of their people perished and their bodies were thrown in the sea during a tortuous four-month voyage.

Resident medical officers of Dhaka’s Birdem General Hospital said the authorities cut their monthly salaries and other benefits although they were treating patients amid the Covid-19 pandemic.