Sakhina Begum, 65, was returning home with her son after a routine medical check-up at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Protests against a divisive new citizenship law continued in West Bengal, Assam and Delhi yesterday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress and its allies of raising storm over the law.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government wants to develop a professional and well-trained armed force for Bangladesh to keep pace with the constantly-changing world.

Air pollution forced schools to close in parts of Iran including Tehran yesterday, state media reported, as the capital lay under a thick cloud of smog.

A handful of major states resisted pressure yesterday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a UN climate summit ground to a close, angering smaller countries and a growing protest movement that is pushing for emergency action.

A worker of Platinum Jute Mill died at Khulna Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Five workers injured in Wednesday’s fire at a Keraniganj plastic factory died yesterday, raising the death toll to 19.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday defended Washington’s pressuring Nato allies to contribute more money toward their own defense, saying the Western alliance cannot permit “free riders.”

The tin shack was almost hidden behind a bush. A thick canopy of mango and coconut trees kept it under a blissful shade. Behind its backyard was a wide canal that separated it from the rest of the village.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon in November surged by 104 percent compared to the same month in 2018, according to official data released yesterday.

A UN climate summit in Madrid risked collapsing yesterday after all-night negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.

Three days have passed since the deadly fire at a Keraniganj plastic factory, but police are yet to find out the factory owner and other accused in the murder case filed in this connection.

The autopsy on the body of Stamford University student Rubaiyat Sharmin Rumpa found no sign of rape, said a forensic doctor who conducted the autopsy.

The cancellations of Foreign Minister Abdul Momen and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan’s visits to India amid protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act could be seen as the first sign of rough edges in the bilateral relations over the contentious law.

Criticising divisions in the Supreme Court Bar Association, a former Appellate Division judge yesterday said the country would have a “spineless judiciary” due to divisions in the Bar and partisan role of lawyers.

Two suspected yaba traders were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, a day after their arrest.

The Jahangirnagar University authorities have spent more than Tk 84 lakh to decorate the new luxurious office of Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam, taking the money from funds meant for student welfare, research and development of the departments.

A man and his son were killed in a road accident in Jhenidah’s Maheshpur upazila yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to be aware of traitors and killers so that they could not play with the fate of Bangladesh anymore.

Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah on Friday ended his opposition to a recount in seven provinces after the September 28 election, which has been mired in fraud allegations.