Professor Muzaffar Ahmed, president of Bangladesh National Awami Party (Pro-Moscow-NAP) passes away at a private hospital in Dhaka.

G7 leaders gathering in France this weekend plan to hammer out "concrete measures" in response to the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest, putting them on a collision course with Brazil's rightwing leader.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says Bangladesh will take a tougher position over Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam says the government will provide financial assistance to the insolvent families of the people, who died of dengue this year.

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has demanded immediate formation of a commission to find out the perpetrators who were behind the conspiracy of killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and responsible for rehabilitating the killers.

An eight-year-old child dies of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical viral disease, at a hospital in Dhaka.

President M Abdul Hamid urges people of all religions to maintain the country’s existing communal harmony to attain national development and progress.

Two people are killed in separate road accidents in Rampura and Jatrabari areas of Dhaka.

As wildfires rage through the Brazilian Amazon, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said Dublin will vote against a trade deal between the European Union and South American trade bloc Mercosur unless Brazil takes action to protect the rainforest.

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Four people, two of them children, died and more than 100 were injured during a thunderstorm in Poland's Tatra mountains, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says.

At least five people are killed in a stampede at a packed rap concert in the Algerian capital on Thursday night, a hospital source says.

Authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir tighten security ahead of Friday prayers after separatists called for a protest march to a UN office, with streets bristling with paramilitary personnel and some blocked by checkpoints.

Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva terms the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest a “crime against humanity” and blames current policies for fueling the blazes.

An Indian soldier is killed in firing by Pakistani army along the de facto border in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.

A member of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF-main) has been killed in a reported gunfight with an army patrol team in Rangamati.

Terming the steps taken by the government to curb dengue outbreak in the country as “ineffective and show-off”, a pro-environment organisation demands for it to take effective measures against the mosquito-borne disease by integrating people from all sectors.

At least 152 people have suffered injuries from tear gas and pellets in disputed Kashmir since Indian security forces this month launched a sweeping crackdown, data from the Himalayan region's two main hospitals shows.

India’s Supreme Court agrees to examine the constitutional validity of a law passed by parliament that criminalises the practice of instant triple talaq among Muslims.

A local Jubo League leader has been shot dead by unidentified criminals in Hnila union in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.