Iran yesterday said it “only acts in self-defence” after President Donald Trump warned it against attacks on US troops in Iraq, as a new war of words heated up despite the coronavirus pandemic.

A case has been filed against Manoranjan Mistry, suspended inspector (investigation) of Amtali Police Station in Barguna, over the death of a detainee at the police station on March 27.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday morning, said Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Many of about 30,000 Bangladeshis living in Spain have been spending days in uncertainty with no source of income as the country has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 14 to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gives the Nixon administration 10 days’ time to recognise Bangladesh or the Bangladesh government would close down the US Mission in Dhaka.

Antarctica is now a harsh land of ice and snow, but has not always been that way.

Two suspected criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in two upazilas of Naogaon early yesterday.

SM Mominul Islam Mukut, who works at a bank, went to a private hospital in Uttara on March 21 after suffering from fever and low blood pressure.

“We don’t have gloves, masks, anything,” says one of the medical team at southeastern Romania’s RamnicuSarat hospital, one of those designated to treat Covid-19 patients.

Bulbous nests fashioned and clumped onto trees by weaverbirds used to be a part of the rural landscape not so long ago.

Amid the countrywide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, millions are working from home while children are off school.

A free transport service for caregivers, including doctors and nurses, was launched yesterday so that they could go to hospitals faster.

A schoolboy who was suffering from cirrhosis died without treatment on Tuesday afternoon after he was turned away by three hospitals and a clinic in Khulna.

The army will take stern actions from today if anyone violates the government directive on maintaining social distancing and following home-quarantine rules, in its efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A Russian military plane carrying medical equipment has departed for the United States, the defence ministry in Moscow said yesterday, as the Kremlin flexes its soft power amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Two men were sent to jail in Thakurgaon and Cumilla and another was arrested in Jashore yesterday on charges of rape and attempt to rape.

Although the Saudi Arabian government yesterday urged different countries to delay making hajj plans this year, suggesting the pilgrimage could be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh said it would go ahead with their preparation regarding hajj.

The glittering New York City, a bustling tourist destination, is now a land of worries. New York is the most affected state in the US, now the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Of the more than 188,000 people infected by the virus in the country,

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says that conspiracy is going on, within and outside, against the new-born state of

The authorities are yet to introduce regular online classes for school students as educational institutions remain indefinitely closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.