Police yesterday recovered the body of a seven-year-old girl, killed allegedly after rape, in Chapainawabganj. In addition, two men were sued yesterday in a rape incident in Gazipur and one accused of gangraping a minor was arrested in Khulna.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been empowered by the working committee of Awami League to form a committee to reorganise the party to provide the people leadership.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has recommended that the 172 Bangladeshi students in China’s Hubei Province not be brought back home as that would risk spreading coronavirus in Bangladesh.

An inter-ministerial body has decided against making a road through two reserve forests -- Hazarkhali Wildlife Sanctuary and Boroiyadala National Park -- in Chattogram.

Around 80 percent of those linked to militancy use social media and different encrypted messaging applications to communicate with each other.

Bangabandhu says that although he has friendly feelings towards the people of USA, he cannot support President Richard Nixon’s administration, which has still not recognised Bangladesh.

A woman died and seven of her family members suffered burn injuries in a gas explosion at a Shahedpara residence in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of college student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has apparently downplayed the Rohingya crisis as he compared Bangladesh-Myanmar tension over the issue with a quarrel of a couple.

Dhaka Club and Gulshan Club yesterday filed two separate petitions with the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the High Court verdict that asked the government to stop games involving cards, roll of the dice or luck.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar yesterday defended his country’s controversial new citizenship law and crackdown in Kashmir, as he came to Brussels to promote what he hopes will be closer strategic ties to the European Union.

Israeli commercial planes have started overflying Sudan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, casting the new air corridor as the result of a breakthrough meeting with the African Muslim country’s de-facto leader this month.

EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to a naval operation to enforce an arms embargo on war-torn Libya, overcoming objections from countries who feared it may encourage new migrant flows.

India yesterday proposed trans-border protected areas for cooperation in wildlife conservation with neighbouring countries.

President Donald Trump has called for Russia to end its support for the Syrian regime’s “atrocities” as he expressed US concern over violence in the Idlib region, the White House said Sunday.

A farmer from India has allegedly beaten Usain Bolt’s 100 metre sprint record - with the help of two huge buffaloes.

Saudi Arabia has deported 5,594 Bangladeshi migrant workers, including 300 women, in the last one and a half months, according to Brac Migration Programme.

Around 5,600 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have applied for their repatriation under a special exit programme.

A man was killed and nine others were injured as a boiler exploded at a rice mill in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday expressed concern over the situation in the country’s banking sector, and wanted to know the state of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution.