Bangladesh reported 17 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday morning, taking the total number of cases to 19,52,691.

Police yesterday arrested BM Jasim, union parishad chairman of Hayndgaon, and his son for beating up a former president of the union’s AL unit on Friday afternoon.

Two men were killed as a lorry hit their motorcycle on the capital’s Khilgaon flyover around 2:00am yesterday, said police.

Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, was observed across the country yesterday with due religious solemnity.

A woman was killed as a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Nazirhat Bazar area of Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila yesterday afternoon.

All Sri Lanka’s creditors will be treated equally in a planned restructuring of the country’s debt, its central bank governor said yesterday, adding that he expected progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the next two months.

The Department of Shipping has formed a three-member investigation committee to probe the sinking of Bangladeshi vessel MV Marintrust-1 at the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata over a month ago.

The deputy commissioner’s office in Chandpur has sued an Awami League leader and 24 others for grabbing khas land in the district’s Haimchar upazila.

Hajj management would be very challenging this year as almost all hajj-related activities are yet to start with just two months to complete those, said organisations involved in it.

It could rain on Eid Day in many areas across the country as the current mild heatwave is likely to stay until tomorrow, said a meteorologist yesterday.

Ukraine acknowledged yesterday that it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as Nato warned the conflict could last years.

Brahmanbaria Deputy Commissioner Shahgir Alam has halted the construction work of two shelter projects after finding severe irregularities.

A second-grader in Cox’s Bazar and a fourth-grader in Tangail were raped allegedly by their neighbours.

Millions of workers staged a crippling strike in Sri Lanka yesterday, adding to pressure on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his ruling family to quit over the country’s worst-ever economic crisis.

The agricultural ministry defended the participation of officials’, in phases, in a six-month-long exhibition in the Netherlands, without mentioning the exact number of delegates.

The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a study said yesterday.

Miners of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited and their family members staged a protest in Dinajpur’s Parbatipur upazila yesterday demanding arrears and reinstatement.

Russia yesterday warned the West that there would be a tough military response to any further attack on Russian territory, accusing the United States and its key European allies of openly inciting Ukraine to assault Russia.

A worker was killed and 17 others were injured as part of an under-construction bridge collapsed in Rangamati’s Borodam area yesterday morning.

An elderly man was killed and at least 20 other people, including eight cops, were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Jadunandi village of Faridpur’s Saltha upazila on Wednesday night over establishing supremacy.