Former US vice president Joe Biden drew criticism Sunday after he called a woman a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

Four teenagers were gang-raped in two incidents in the capital’s Madhya Badda and Kadamtali areas on Saturday night.

Much acclaimed television show for school-goers -- Spelling Bee -- is back once again.

Every time the court fixes a date for the investigation officer to submit the probe report in journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case, the officer fails to do so. The court then sets another date for the report submission.

“The government of Bangladesh has nothing to hide,” comments Vittorio Winspeare-Guiccardi, UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Humanitarian Problems, after a meeting with Bangabandhu today afternoon.

Workers’ Party President Rashed Khan Menon yesterday in parliament said people would lose interest in the House if lawmakers were not allowed to hold discussions on important issues.

The woman widely seen as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chosen successor will not lead her crisis-racked CDU party into upcoming elections, a party source told AFP Monday.

An Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza on Monday seeking to ease tensions, a Hamas security source said, after Israel again attacked the enclave with air strikes in response to projectiles fired by militants.

Bangladesh is still free from the novel corona virus infection, the authorities concerned said yesterday after analysing 55 samples from people who returned from China recently and were suspected to be infected.

Spectra Engineering Limited, contractor of a road construction project between the port city’s Bayezid area and Dhaka-Chattogram highway razed hills on 92,700 square feet of land in the last few years.

Two alleged robbers, including a Rohingya, were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar and Cumilla early yesterday.

Coast Guard members yesterday rescued a girl from a stranded vessel and arrested five youths on charge of gang-raping the girl in Bhola’s Charfesson upazila.

Alam Ahmed had left for Oman barely six months ago, after borrowing around Tk 5 lakh from relatives and a local NGO.

A Dhaka court took cognizance of charges against Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, and Khandaker Enamul Basir, suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission, in a bribery case.

A marketplace established in Pabna’s Satbaria Bazar to promote rural women entrepreneurs is about to be closed allegedly for lack of fund and patronisation.

In the morning Bangabandhu meets Maulana Bhashani at PG Hospital where the Maulana was admitted the day before for treatment. Bangabandhu spends half an hour with Bhashani, sits on his bedside and enquires about his health. Seeing Bangabandhu, the Maulana exclaims: “You have come. May Allah grant you a long life.”

Britain and Ireland hunkered down yesterday for a powerful storm expected to disrupt air, rail and sea links, cancel sports events, cut electrical power and damage property.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday urged US governors to resist Chinese pressure to shun Taiwan as he warned that Beijing was increasingly taking its diplomatic battle to the local level.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.

Seven workers suffered burns when they were melting iron at a steel mill in Kadamtali area of the capital early yesterday.