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.

The European Union says it wants a greater security role in the Pacific and will have no problem working with China in a region where Beijing has boosted its influence in recent years.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s ruling party celebrated Monday a win in parliamentary polls but the opposition claimed the election was “totally falsified”.

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.

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.

Police on Saturday night arrested 10 youths on charge of abducting a teenage girl in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh.

A former union-level Awami League leader was murdered in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila on Saturday night.

Hungarian police said Saturday it has busted a network of “fake news” websites that reported alleged coronavirus-related deaths in Hungary, so far free of reported infections from the deadly virus.

The government has taken measures to ensure navigability in 10,000 kilometres of river routes through dredging 178 rivers, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury today told parliament.

Seven Bangladeshis were arrested in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh for not having any valid document for staying in India, a senior police official said 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.