Israeli cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday he had “no clue” who was behind the killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran.

Ethiopian troops have taken “full control” of the Tigray region’s capital Mekelle, the government said this evening, a major development in a three-week-old war that is sending shockwaves through the Horn of Africa.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism has detained and handed over five candidates to the police for taking necessary legal measures as they resorted to unfair means in the recruitment test for office assistant’s post in the ministry.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has left Dhaka for Singapore tonight for follow-up treatment.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Berc) has been asked to set the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

Tobacco companies have used their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes to get closer to policymakers, government officials and administration in order to exploit “connection to extract different benefits and to interfere in tobacco control activities”, anti-tobacco group Knowledge for Progress says citing a survey report.

A 27-year-old woman was allegedly raped in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila last night.

Awami League has picked its candidates for contesting elections to 25 municipalities.

Russia scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to intercept a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane flying over neutral waters in the Black Sea, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Saturday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said it is India’s duty to assist other countries, including those in its neighbourhood, in the collective fight against the novel coronavirus.

Twenty-nine more dengue cases were reported across the country in 24 hours until Saturday morning.

A legal notice has been served on the authorities concerned of the government and mobile phone operators in order to ensure quality of internet and network services to the subscribers across the country.

Some 28 percent of 330 women and girls faced difficulties in accessing healthcare services in six climate vulnerable upazilas during the Covid-19 pandemic and cyclone Amphan, said a Manusher Jonno Foundation commissioned report.

A woman in Bagerhat has confessed to killing her 17-day old daughter, in a case filed in this connection.

Police recovered bodies of two newborns abandoned in a box near Bandar Police Station in Chattogram city this evening.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have reaffirmed Bangladesh’s position for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders.

Independent MP Shahid Islam Papul’s wife, daughter, and sister-in-law have sought anticipatory bail from the High Court in a corruption case involving Tk 148.41 crore.

Muktijuddho Moncho today blocked Shahbagh for one hour, demanding arrest of two leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam and Islami Andolan Bangladesh for opposing the establishment of Bangabandhu’s sculpture.

Voters in Indian-administered Kashmir went to the polls Saturday amid a heavy security presence in the first direct elections in the disputed region since the government stripped its semi-autonomy last year.

Bangladesh has disbursed US$ 500,000 to OIC as foreign ministers of the 57-nation group in their ongoing meeting initiated a fund raising campaign for its West African member Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar over Rohingya genocide in International Court of Justice (ICJ).