The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic and in the throes of a surge in cases, registered more than 2,500 deaths in a 24-hour period, the highest total since late April, Johns Hopkins University said.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Baul singer Rita Dewan for “hurting religious sentiments”.

This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded and could even top the record set in 2016, the United Nations said yesterday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has imposed a ban on organising assemblies, rallies, mass gatherings, and use of loudspeakers at these programmes in the capital without prior permission.

A Chinese space probe yesterday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

It was Tk 12.27 crore illegal wealth mentioned in a graft case filed against online casino “kingpin” Selim Prodhan.

Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.

Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.

Amnesty International yesterday denounced a “horrifying execution spree” in Egypt, saying dozens of people had been put to death in the past two months.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced a man to death and fined him Tk 1 lakh for killing a minor girl after rape in the district’s Pirganj upazila in 2016.

It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years.

The parliamentary body on the home affairs ministry wants to visit different foreign missions of Bangladesh to inspect passport and visa issuance activities in order to get a comprehensive idea on how to make them more dynamic and effective.

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has planned to introduce an automatic train protection system (ATPS) to avoid any head-on collisions and maloperation, and to ensure safe train operations, officials said.

Pakistani President ZA Bhutto envisages a special relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh in which there would be certain special trade agreements and no visas for the people of one country visiting the other.

Globe Biotech Ltd has cancelled the contract with the icddr,b to conduct clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine Bancovid.

Bangladesh physician Mahmudul Hoque Jassy has secured a record-breaking highest mark in the MRCP examination this year, after scoring 906 out of 1,000, where the pass mark was 454.

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said yesterday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.

Nine years have passed after two separate appeals were filed with the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that declared the Chattogram Hill Tracts Regional Council illegal and unconstitutional.

The Serum Institute of India (SII) said yesterday that vaccine candidate ‘Covishield’, which is being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), is “safe and immunogenic”. The SII is testing the candidate in India.

Police arrested a suspected gold smuggler couple with 28 gold bars worth Tk 3 crore near Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban yesterday.