The season’s first cold wave seems to have started weakening since yesterday, but the number of patients affected by cold-related diseases have been increasing.

Clarifying the issue over a “legal notice” to President Abdul Hamid, Grameenphone’s parent company Telenor has claimed that it was not a legal notice but an invitation letter to him for dialogue.

Five people have been sentenced to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but two top figures investigated over the killing have been exonerated, Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said yesterday.

Protests against the amended citizenship act slammed as anti-Muslim continued in Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and West Bengal yesterday.

Bangladesh Chhatra Sangram Parishad in a press conference, at Shahid Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall in Dhaka University, declare they will keep fighting until the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is freed from the Pakistan army.

Installation of the first rail lines on elevated viaducts will begin next week, with the first one being fixed at the depot area in the capital’s Uttara.

People from religious minorities may have gone to India “due to persecution” after the BNP-led four-party alliance came to power in 2001, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.

Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s most radical advisors, is known for his unswerving defense of a resolutely anti-immigrant policy.

China yesterday hit back at the US for criticising its blocking of a UN Security Council resolution over civilian aid, accusing Washington of “politicising humanitarian issues.”

All five pro-government parties that competed in Uzbekistan’s first elections under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took seats in the country’s parliament, preliminary results showed yesterday.

A woman was trampled to death by wild elephants in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila early yesterday.

A suspected criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Noakhali early yesterday.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Saturday condemned religious violence following attacks on multiple mosques in the Amhara region, the latest unrest targeting religious institutions.

President Emmanuel Macron said French forces had “neutralised” several dozen jihadists in Mali on Saturday, as he visited West Africa with a pledge to give new force to the battle against Islamist militants in the region.

Belgium’s Africa Museum launched an investigation Saturday into allegations that a guide made racist comments and defended the country’s brutal colonial past during a tour with students.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon early yesterday, said Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad says that those who have intentionally participated in the genocide will be prosecuted.

Martyred intellectual’s family members, who were evicted from their home “following a mid-ranking police official’s move” in the capital’s Nawabpur, are the actual owners of the property, the Anti-Corruption Commission has found in its enquiry.

An Iranian driver who was stranded after his lorry broke down in Poland received a helping hand from locals who launched a crowd-funding initiative for a new truck to take him home.

The cold wave shook much of the country for the fourth consecutive day yesterday disrupting daily life of many.