More than 70 original Nasa photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).

Inflammation is an immune response of the body towards damage and infection. It is usually gone on its own after serving the purpose, unless it is chronic.

A wedding ceremony was held on a high school playground, and to make that happen authorities suspended the day’s academic activities yesterday in Barishal city.

A women’s rights body yesterday demanded amendment of the existing family laws and enact a new one to ensure equal rights for women in inheritance and family property.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday invited United Arab Emirates investors to avail lucrative opportunities in Bangladesh, harness its potentials, and make the country their home.

The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal for not registering Ganasamhati Andolon as a political party even though the court directed the Election Commission to do so almost three years ago.

A general holiday was observed at Bijaypur Government Primary School in Cumilla yesterday, mourning the deaths of its students in a tragic train accident.

Rights organisations have issued statements expressing alarm that the proposed social media regulation could pave the way to curb freedom of expression.

Three people died of Covid-19 and 327 cases were registered in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release from the DGHS.

Police early yesterday recovered a 14-year-old boy’s body which was hanging from a shower head in the toilet of Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital.

Rab yesterday arrested a 58-year-old madrasa teacher in Natore’s Lalpur upazila where he had been hiding since March 6 after a case was filed against him for attempting to rape one of his students.

A BNP activist of Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila died yesterday, hours after a team of Rab-7 arrested him in connection with a murder case.

The second round of the three-day-long countrywide Covid-19 special inoculation campaign will be started from March 28, read a DGHS circular.

One of the famous shipwrecks in history, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers announced yesterday.

The timely launching of the country’s second satellite by a Russian company could face uncertainty amid sanctions imposed by the US and its allies to punish Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

After two years the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over and could be prolonged further due to “scandalously unequal” vaccine distribution, the UN secretary-general warned yesterday.

Two Americans, including a former executive of the oil company Citgo, were back in the United States yesterday after being released from prison in Venezuela, just days after a high-level US delegation met with President Nicolas Maduro.

At least six US states have been targeted by hackers linked to China who exploited vulnerabilities in web programs, cybersecurity company Mandiant said in a report.

Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation, a member of the consortium building the Matarbari coal-fired power plant under phase-1, has announced it will not participate in the second phase’s bidding process because of its revised policy on decarbonisation.

Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to further strengthen the existing bilateral relations between the two countries for mutual benefits.