Voicing concern over the recent violence in north-east Delhi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India is a secular country and people cannot be divided along religious lines.

The government initiative to decentralise several public service deliveries by transferring them to local government bodies has not been properly implemented even though a law was enacted for this nine years ago, said development practitioners and governance campaigners yesterday.

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday postponed her four-day India visit that was scheduled to begin today.

Experts think that the new coronavirus might end up being a seasonal flu and will probably continue to circulate indefinitely.

Two suspected criminals were killed in two “gunfights” with law enforcers in the capital and Feni early yesterday.

Dhaka considers the recent violence in Delhi as India’s domestic issue and expects the country’s authorities to control it.

A staunch Muslim nationalist backed by a scandal-mired party was sworn in as Malaysia’s premier yesterday after a reformist government’s collapse, but ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad, 94, slammed the move as illegal.

A 37-year-old man was killed by three unidentified people at his home in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district in the early hours yesterday, taking the toll from clashes over amended citizenship law and inner line permit issues in the Indian state to three, police said.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev hold a discussion on the question of further developing and consolidating relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

A section of teachers and students of Visva Bharati University has offered legal assistance to the Bangladeshi student who was asked to leave India for her alleged involvement in “anti-government activities”.

At least 18 people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger train rammed into a bus on Friday in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, officials said.

The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban yesterday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest war.

Wearing decent clothes and looking like a gentleman, one of them would greet you on the street or at a terminal.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar early yesterday.

Talks between the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman opens in Kremlin. The talk starts shortly after the arrival of Bangabandhu in Moscow.

The month-long Amar Ekushey book fair, the country’s biggest congregation of booklovers, authors, and publishers, ended yesterday with a massive turnout.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed there was a secret plan to use a double to make public appearances for him, while insisting he vetoed it -- and that he is the real Putin.

At least 16 people, including seven in a single incident, died and 15 others were injured in different road crashes in four districts yesterday.

Signs of normalcy returned to riot-hit areas of northeast Delhi yesterday with people venturing out of their homes to buy groceries and medicines from a few shops that were opened amid intensified patrolling by security personnel.

Pope Francis, who has been suffering from what the Vatican says is a “slight indisposition,” resumed official audiences with individuals in his residence yesterday but three with groups were cancelled.