Bangladesh Nationalist Party last night nominated Shahadat Hossain, president of the party’s Chattogram city unit, to contest for the Chittagong City Corporation mayor post.

A policeman was killed and dozens of people injured amid clashes in New Delhi yesterday as thousands demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law rioted for several hours before US President Donald Trump’s maiden visit to the city.

Border Guard Bangladesh will observe the Martyrs’ Day today with due solemnity, commemorating the army officers killed in the Pilkhana BDR carnage in 2009.

The United States has urged Yemen’s Huthi rebels to drop charges targeting the Baha’i community, which said that 24 believers of the faith will face a new trial session today.

The Red Cross said yesterday it had obtained an exemption to United Nations sanctions against North Korea to provide testing kits and medical equipment against a possible coronavirus outbreak.

Official calls to arrest a Saudi female rapper who appeared in a music video have sparked an online backlash with many calling the move hypocritical as the kingdom invites Western women to perform.

Haitian police demanding better working conditions shot up the army headquarters on Sunday, killing two servicemen and wounding a dozen more, the Defense Ministry said, prompting the government to cancel an upcoming carnival.

Fears of a global coronavirus pandemic deepened yesterday with a growing number of deaths in Iran and the worsening of other outbreaks across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research yesterday advised the Bangladeshis staying abroad to follow the directives of the local authorities to keep themselves safe from novel coronavirus infection.

Three people were killed and at least 14 others injured in separate road accidents in the city yesterday.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has said his wife Empress Masako “still has ups and downs” as she battles to recover from a longstanding stress-induced illness related to her royal duties.

Thich Quang Do, a dissident Buddhist monk who has effectively been under house arrest since 2003 and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 93.

A minibus stopped outside the world’s largest cemetery in the Iraqi Shia holy city of Najaf. Five women got out, telephone cameras filming the scene, and dashed excitedly towards a grave.

The streets are silent, shops are shuttered and the few people who venture from their homes shun company in the small Italian town of Codogno under the shadow of a new coronavirus outbreak.

The High Court yesterday declared illegal a government decision to build a tourist and picnic spot on 61 acres of the Mahananda river in Chapainawabganj.

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) yesterday advised people to avoid foreign tours which are not mandatory to stay safe from the novel coronavirus infection.

The much-hyped Mass Rapid Transport projects will hardly ease traffic congestion in the capital because by 2035, when the projects are expected to be fully implemented, only one-tenth of the commuters will be using the trains, an expert said yesterday.

The government has decided that organisations and functionaries such as zonal council, zonal administration, civil liaison officer,

The deadly coronavirus epidemic could put an already fragile global economic recovery at risk, the IMF warned yesterday, as G20 financial chiefs voiced “real concern” over its economic ripple effects.

Israel is bracing for an unprecedented third election in under a year, with voters eyeing an end to the deadlock but polls indicating another tight race despite criminal charges against the prime minister.