Israel has stopped granting visas to UN human rights workers, forcing them to stop their work and leave the country, according to a report by Middle East Eye (MEE).

A newborn girl, declared dead by a doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early today, was found alive hours later, just before she was being buried at a city graveyard.

Police arrested one person in connection with the gang-rape of a housewife in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore.

Dhaka will roll out its first ‘Made in Bangladesh’ cars next year, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has said.

A member of a reformist faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samity, PCJSS-MN Larma, has been shot dead by unidentified criminals in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban.

London, the world’s international financial capital, will enter a tighter Covid-19 lockdown from midnight on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating second coronavirus wave.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

A summit of European Union leaders in Brussels continued as planned today after Ursula von der Leyen, the chief of the bloc’s executive, left to go into quarantine because she had been in contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.

The Digital Trade Week has kicked off in an attempt to promote digital trade and initiate digitisation of trade in the ready-made garments sector.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud today said YouTube channels and IP TVs would not be allowed to present news.

New Delhi today said Beijing has no right to comment on India’s internal affairs, two days after China said that it did not recognise the Indian government-controlled territory of Ladakh and the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

The Bangladesh government, in its steps to modernise Bangladesh Air Force, has procured seven Chinese made K-8W training aircraft under an agreement, according to a press release issued by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).

Italy has withdrawn the flight embargo for Bangladeshis who have valid stay permits.

The coronavirus pandemic has turned one Japanese theme park into a new workplace for teleworkers, with a haunted house for the bargain.

A Japanese supercomputer has shown that humidity can have a large effect on the dispersion of virus particles, pointing to heightened coronavirus contagion risks in dry, indoor conditions during the winter months.

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun has assured Bangladesh of extending cooperation in repatriating Rashed Chowdhury, the killer of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is currently living in the USA.

Top officials in Chinese-administered Tibet have defended a vocational training programme that some critics have called coercive, and urged Tibetans not to “overdo” religion, during a briefing with foreign journalists on a rare visit to the region.

After around seven months of closure due to coronavirus pandemic, the National Zoo at Mirpur will be open to visitors again from November 1.

The Supreme Court has refused to allow former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son, both sentenced to jail in a corruption case, to move appeals before the court without surrendering to the lower court.

Malaysia has agreed to reopen its labour market for Bangladeshi migrant workers soon, according to a press release of expatriates’ welfare ministry.