Britain yesterday began a new year and life outside the European Union after leaving the bloc’s single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel by ferry and rail reporting largely plain sailing despite new customs rules.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today says some have realised that people would not vote for them and they are trying to create disruption to foil the elections.

Eighteen fishermen from Kuakata area have remained missing for 22 days while fishing in the Bay of Bengal.

Bangladesh Columnists’ Forum (BCF) -- a platform of senior journalists, academics, researchers and economists specialising in commentaries on contemporary issues of national and global nature -- began its journey yesterday, says a press release.

The first ferry from Britain bound for Calais after the UK’s exit from the EU customs union docked in the northern French port yesterday, with three dozen vehicles disembarking in a smooth operation, an AFP correspondent said.

The opposition Greens and the far-left Die Linke are fiercely opposed.

Singapore and neighbouring Malaysia have scrapped plans for a high-speed rail line after failing to agree on changes, officials said yesterday, finally abandoning a costly and long-troubled project.

Din Mohammad had made up his mind to go to Malaysia in desperate want of a better life.

The world yesterday began ushering in the New Year, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020.

In a rare instance, a parliamentary committee yesterday formed three sub-committees to look into issues, including the allegations of irregularities and corruption in the collection of tolls at bridges across the country.

He drives a Nissan X-Trail and lives in a duplex with foreign fittings in Keshorhat village of Rajshahi’s Mohanpur, where such luxuries raise quite a few eyebrows.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh surged to 7,559 with 28 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until yesterday morning.

Faridpur town Awami League’s organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Harun Mondal was yesterday shown arrested in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

The incidents of rape and violence against women this year were more than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said yesterday.

Two students are killed and seven others are injured when the police on duty open fire upon a procession of students organised by DUCSU and Bangladesh Chhatra Union in observance of Vietnam Day today.

The UN yesterday voiced outrage at the execution of a man in Iran who was only 16 when he committed his alleged crime, marking the fourth juvenile offender put to death in the country this year.

A Uighur Muslim doctor has been jailed on terrorism charges, Beijing confirmed yesterday, a day after her family told US politicians she had been sentenced to 20 years.

The import policy for the shipping period January-June, 1973, announced by Commerce Minister MR Siddiqui today envisages import of goods worth Tk 219 crore.

Police yesterday arrested three Jubo League activists in Nagarkanda upazila for assaulting a doctor, nurse and an office assistant during the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination programme.

Russian investigators on Tuesday opened a criminal probe into Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, alleging he used more than 356 million rubles ($4.8 million) of donations to his organisations for personal purposes including holidays abroad.