India’s space programme suffered a huge setback yesterday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon.

The Election Commission has set up a separate server to store information and fingerprints of Rohingyas in order to prevent the refugees from obtaining National Identity Cards and becoming voters.

A man was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of muggers in Gazipur’s Tongi early yesterday.

Long-awaited talks between protesters and the Jahangirnagar University administration were postponed yesterday after a demonstrator was assaulted allegedly by a Chhatra League leader.

The headmaster of a government primary school and his son have allegedly taken photos of the half-nude body of a fourth-grader in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday urged parents to keep an eye in their children’s activities to keep them from getting involved in teen gangs.

A Monirampur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a third grader who later became pregnant.

After a safety review by the local authorities, the International Organisation for Migration yesterday clarified that it donated the tools recovered from an NGO’s storage depot in Ukhia.

Mobs vandalised and looted several hundred shops of expatriates, including Bangladeshis, in South Africa in waves of anti-immigrant violence from Monday to Wednesday.

Two staff members with Action Against Hunger have been shot dead by unidentified “armed individuals” in western Ethiopia, the aid group said.

A union-level Awami League leader was murdered in Khulna’s Dighalia upazila last night.

A Laos activist is feared missing in Thailand, rights groups said yesterday, calling for an urgent investigation into his whereabouts after a rash of similar disappearances of dissidents in Southeast Asia.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday issued a stern warning to Yemeni separatists who have seized key parts of the south, saying any attempt to destabilise Yemen amounted to a threat to the kingdom.

Russians are set to vote in local elections yesterday following a hugely controversial campaign in Moscow that degenerated into the biggest police crackdown on protesters in nearly a decade.

Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who was runner-up in last year’s presidential election, yesterday went to trial in a military court on insurrection charges that have sparked international outcry.

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge to the election of Prime Minister James Marape on September 20, a lawyer for opposition leader Patrick Pruaitch, who took the issue to court, said yesterday.

Union parishad chairmen in several upazilas of Chattogram have allegedly been issuing citizenship certificates to Rohingyas, paving the way for the refugees to eventually obtain Bangladeshi national identity card or passport.

Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced yesterday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday sought to regain political momentum after a painful week left his do-or-die Brexit strategy in tatters.

Several Jatiya Party lawmakers and presidium members yesterday demanded expulsion of Anisul Islam Mahmud and Fakhrul Imam from the organisation for allegedly playing the key role in declaring Raushan Ershad chairman of the party.