Bangladesh’s rawhide market appears to have made a comeback this Eid-ul-Azha on the back of higher demand, better prices and a bar on rawhides arriving in Dhaka.

Eminent archaeologist, historian and art expert Prof Enamul Haque died at his home in the capital on Sunday.

Tehran yesterday hit out at what it called Washington’s “contradictory” policies, after President Joe Biden vowed to pile pressure on Iran ahead of a visit to US allies in the Middle East.

Hundreds of thousands of people were under lockdown in a small Chinese city yesterday after just one case of Covid-19 was detected, as Beijing’s strict no-tolerance virus strategy showed no sign of abating.

An alleged operative of United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead in a remote hilly area of Khagrachhari yesterday morning.

Ukraine yesterday said it had launched artillery barrages that destroyed a Russian arms depot and carried out a “special operation” to free military captives in the Moscow-controlled Kherson region, a territory it eyes to retake in a counter-offensive.

A Jubo Dal leader was hacked to death allegedly by his business opponents in Jashore town yesterday.

Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and Director Fatema Amin were sent to jail on July 9 on charges of instigating the suicide of a businessman.

Health officials yesterday reported nine deaths from Covid and 656 new cases of the disease.

Tensions have been brewing between members of the Garo communityand foresters over pieces of land in the Amtali forest of Tangail’s Madhupur upazila.

Western officials yesterday tried to coax Russia into allowing Ukraine to ship its grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far away from the battlefields.

Rab arrested three more persons for their alleged involvement in Rajshahi’s Sunny murder.

Seven people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

Members of Rab-7 arrested four men, including a police constable, with 5,280 pieces of yaba pills in Chattogram.

Bangladesh is observing a one-day state mourning today for former Japanese prime minister and the country’s true friend Shinzo Abe.

Although flood situation continues to improve in most places, another death was reported in Habiganj in 24 hours till yesterday morning, taking the total flood-related fatalities to 113.

For people in the northeast, who are struggling through the worst flood in decades, the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha is barely bring them any joy.

The health directorate yesterday reported 1,790 cases of Covid-19, up from 1,728 the previous day.

The National University yesterday expelled a student and served separate show-cause notices on a teacher and the governing body of a college over the attack and humiliation of a teacher in Narail.

Soaring global food and energy prices have forced 71 million people into poverty in the world’s poorest countries, according to a United Nations Development Program report published yesterday.