US President Donald Trump yesterday offered an olive branch to China after days of intense feuding over trade that has spooked financial markets and he opened the door to diplomacy with Iran, easing tensions on the last day of a strained G7 summit.

The 43rd death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed across the country today. The poet breathed his last at the then PG Hospital, now Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, in the city on 12th Bhadra of Bangla calendar year 1383 (August 29, 1976) at the age of 77.

Siraj Ud Daula, the prime accused in the Nusrat murder case, yesterday confessed to ordering two of his students to spread a rumour that she had died by suicide.

Surgeons at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in the capital have successfully completed a minimally invasive surgery, first of its kind at a public hospital in the country, on a 12-year-old girl named Nupur.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of an act that would make airlines pay over Tk 1.35 crore to the family of any Bangladeshi killed in a crash.

The home ministry suspended a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on charge of facilitating a group of miscreants in grabbing the property of a martyred intellectual’s family in the city’s Nawabpur.

A police constable was arrested in Narayanganj yesterday on charges of raping a woman multiple times and blackmailing her into giving him money and gold ornaments.

Iran said yesterday it had sold the oil aboard a tanker that was released this month after being detained for six weeks by the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

Brazil yesterday deployed two Hercules C-130 aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited ahead of nationwide protests over the destruction.

The Lalmonirhat Airport, abandoned since World War II, is set to be transformed into Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU), the first of its kind in the country.

Authorities yesterday defended blocking opposition Indian politicians from visiting Muslim-majority Kashmir, saying it was to “avoid controversy” weeks after stripping the restive region of its autonomy and imposing a major clampdown.

The deputy commissioner of Jamalpur Ahmed Kabir has been made an officer on special duty on Sunday, after a video of him in a compromising position with a female employee in his office began making rounds on social media since early Friday.

US President Donald Trump said yesterday he was getting along well with Western allies at a G7 summit in France, dismissing reports of rifts among leaders.

The liberation war affairs ministry has sent letters to all deputy commissioners asking them to prepare lists of Razakars soon.

As the sun lights up the horizon, Osman Goni starts patrolling the Cox’s Bazar sea beach. While waves crash at his feet, his eyes keep searching the distance for anyone who might need help. A team of 26 lifeguards stands ready for his order to rescue people lost in the waves.

Her tent is bare, she’s unemployed and her family relies on food donations. But Nihaya Issa was forced to pick an Iraqi camp over the unliveable ruins of her native city Mosul.

Nauru’s president, a strong supporter of Australia’s hardline policy of detaining refugees on the tiny Pacific island nation, has lost his seat in a general election, official results showed yesterday.

An Iranian court has sentenced writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban to 11 years in prison after convicting him of charges including cooperation with the United States, state media reported.

The High Court yesterday ruled that the word “Kumari” (virgin) cannot be used before the bride’s name in “Kabinnama”, the Muslim marriage deed.

A mother of two has first been raped at her home and then tortured at a local arbitration in Dinajpur’s Biral upazila, alleged locals.