Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday urged Bangladeshis abroad to put in strong efforts to counter conspiracies, noting that there might be more “assaults” on the country and its interests based on propaganda and misinformation.

The mild to moderate cold wave condition in the country may continue for 48 hours beginning midnight last night, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said.

The United Nations yesterday urged the world to ramp up the pressure on Myanmar’s junta to cease violence against the country’s own people and quickly restore civilian rule.

Some 550 Bangladeshi expatriate workers, including 200 UAE-bound ones, are forced to cancel their flights every day at the last moment, said sources at Dhaka airport.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar yesterday hit back at Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda saying that the latter criticised him “out of vengeance” as they had differing positions on different election issues.

The protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday for bearing all medical expenses of those who were injured in police attack and became sick in hunger strike.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that the West had ignored Moscow’s security concerns over Nato expansion and Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

As Omicron pushes Western countries towards reopening, Asia is hunkering down, sharpening an East-West divide on the balance between public health, the economy and basic rights and freedoms.

Japan will contribute $2 million in emergency grant aid for supporting the Rohingyas living on Bhasan Char.

The forest department recovered a tiger’s carcass from a Sundarbans canal yesterday afternoon.

Police arrested a union parishad member and his two cohorts on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in beating up three youths on theft charge in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila.

Bangladesh has expressed dismay over Myanmar’s slow pace verification of the Rohingya and offered the later all cooperation under three bilateral instruments to expeditiously complete the verification process.

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The country’s weather may remain dry with a partly-cloudy sky for the 24 hours starting 6:00pm yesterday, the Met office has forecasted.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday submitted to the High Court a report containing the names of 61 Bangladeshi individuals and seven organisations mentioned in the Panama Papers as money launderers.

Terming the allegation of corruption in the land acquisition for Chandpur Science and Technology University “untrue and fabricated”, Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday alleged that her political rivals were trying to tarnish her image ahead of the next parliamentary election.

The BNP yesterday said the law on Election Commission formation would not protect the ruling Awami League, and people would not accept the law.   

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which is dominant in Denmark, appears more contagious than the more common BA.1 sub-lineage, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a national address.

India’s capital yesterday announced the end of a weekend curfew and eased other stringent coronavirus restrictions yesterday, with government data suggesting the country’s recent Omicron variant outbreak had slowed.

China has returned an Indian citizen who “illegally” entered into Chinese territory at the disputed border between the two Asian giants, a military official said yesterday.