Emphasising that Bangladesh’s recent socioeconomic progress is an example for other countries, Nobel prize winning Indian economist Prof Amartya Sen yesterday said it was essential to understand the mechanism that helped Bangladesh achieve this success.

A judicial probe committee has found partial negligence of the authorities of Dhaka north and south city corporations over the dengue outbreak in the capital last year.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said the law ministry will take further steps regarding BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal for her “temporary” release from jail.

The Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) is going to launch e-passport service at 10 more regional passport offices this month to ensure easy availability of electronic passports.

​US DELEGATION CALLS ON BANGABANDHU Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman categorically says today that whether President Richard Nixon accepts the reality of Bangladesh or not, Bangladesh has come to stay and will exist forever.

On August 5, 2015, a man was arrested because five cheques he gave to his business partner bounced -- a criminal offence as per the law. This offence carries one year’s jail term as punishment.

A Rohingya man, allegedly a yaba trader, was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila early yesterday.

North Korea launched multiple short-range projectiles into the sea yesterday as part of firing drills, a week after it resumed missile tests following a three-month break, South Korea’s military said.

As India braces itself to tackle fresh incidences of coronavirus, Kerala’s successful handling of the nation’s first three positive cases, backed by a rigid protocol, including a 28-day quarantine to contain its spread, offers a model to others.

Four people, including a woman and her two-year-old daughter, were sent to a hospital after they arrived at Dhaka airport from abroad yesterday.

Sudanese women were at the forefront of the protests that toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir but 11 months on, activists are disappointed at a lack of progress on women’s issues.

Britain unveils its first post-Brexit budget on Wednesday and analysts expect Prime Minister Boris Johnson to press ahead with major spending on infrastructure, despite the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

Police in Kyrgyzstan yesterday arrested dozens of protesters -- most of them women -- at a rally to mark International Women’s Day after masked men attacked them and tore up their placards.

A senior Al-Shabaab commander was killed in a recent US air strike in Somalia, the director of US African Command (Africom) said yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family members have applied to the home ministry for her “temporary” release, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters yesterday.

Opening duo Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney scored glittering half-centuries as a ruthless Australia crushed India by 85 runs to win a record-extending fifth Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in front of a heaving Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Malaysia’s palace yesterday denied allegations of a “royal coup” in appointing the country’s prime minister after veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad resigned, saying the king used his discretionary powers prescribed in the constitution.

A Khulna court sentenced five people to death in the case of killing kindergarten teacher Kazi Tasfin Hossain Toyon. Each of those convicted was also fined Tk 50,000.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders on Saturday began what amounts to a fresh campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, as the septuagenarians prepare to go head-to-head at the polls for the first time since the field narrowed to two credible candidates.

Police’s Detective Branch (DB) have completed all necessary preparations to submit the charge sheet in the rape case of a Dhaka University (DU) student in the capital’s Kurmitola area, and they are expecting to submit it within this week.