The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks today on Iran’s nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran’s oil exports as one of the issues to be raised.

Edible oil refiners have cut soybean oil prices up to Tk 6 a litre though the consumers rights organisation said the rates should have been reduced by at least Tk 30 amid falling prices of the item in the global market.

One man was left dead and three people were sent to hospital early yesterday in Montreal after stabbings by a 26-year-old who suffered a breakdown, Canadian police said.

A man was detained for removing nuts and bolts from the railing of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paying toll at the Padma Bridge yesterday. The grand opening of the country’s largest bridge featured a dazzling display of colourful fireworks.

Laki village of Tawakkul union in Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila straddles a massive haor, silhouetting the emerald mountains of Cherrapunji.

Britain’s railway system once again came to a virtual standstill yesterday and flights in Europe were disrupted as strikes in the travel sector hit the continent. 

The World Health Organization said Friday that European summer festivals should not be cancelled due to the monkeypox outbreak but should instead manage the risk of amplifying the virus. 

The long-awaited inauguration of the Padma bridge yesterday was cheered at home and abroad, in a rare unifying moment for the country.

Police recovered the body of a six-year-old schoolgirl, suspected to have been raped before murder, from Feni’s Daganbhuiyan upazila yesterday afternoon.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a man from Rangamati’s Rajasthali upazila yesterday morning after a “gunfight between two armed groups”.

A worker was injured in an explosion at the under-construction SS Power I Plant in Gandamara of Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila yesterday evening.

The Padma Bridge will boost inclusive economic growth and reduce poverty in Bangladesh, Mercy Tembon, World Bank country director for Bangladesh and Bhutan, said yesterday.

A ruined village in eastern Afghanistan, just 10 kilometres from the epicentre of this week’s deadly earthquake, is struggling back to life as aid trickles into the isolated region. 

The UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, has said Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act imposes draconian punishments for a wide range of vaguely defined acts.

US President Joe Biden has been invited to visit Bangladesh.

Hundreds of families in the country’s northern region lost their land and houses to river erosion in the last two weeks.

At least three people died from Covid in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, with the virus positivity rate rising to 15.07 percent.

The US has congratulated Bangladesh on the momentous opening of the Padma Bridge, saying this will create important national and regional connectivity, boost commerce and improve quality of life.

All relief -- government or non-government -- is to be distributed in a coordinated way by committees formed in upazilas and unions of the Sylhet division.