MS Selim Machinery, a Jashore-based company, imported car parts from India through the Chattogram Port in March this year.

No indication is available here today as to when the repatriation of women and children to and from Pakistan under the offer made by India and Bangladesh will take place. India and Bangladesh are in consultation with each other on Pakistan’s response to their offer.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been made co-chair of One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) along with her Barbados counterpart Mia Amor Mottley.

Two people, including a balloon vendor, were killed and at least 10 others injured in a gas cylinder explosion near the venue of a Waz Mehfil in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila on Friday night.

US President Donald Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr has tested positive for Covid-19 and is quarantining without symptoms, the latest in a long list of infections among those with links to the White House.

Over 60 people fled a detention centre in Lebanon yesterday, including six who later died in a car accident on a nearby road, a judicial source said.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the opposition leaders and activists were being made to disappear to stop the criticism of the government’s misdeeds.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday backed one of his senior ministers after an independent inquiry concluded she had broken rules following allegations of bullying of her staff, prompting the report’s author quit.

US giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech was preparing yesterday to file an emergency request to roll out their vaunted vaccine while New York shut its schools and California braced for nighttime curfews heading into the US holiday season.

India is keen to work with Bangladesh on defence hardware platforms like Akash missile, radars, mortars, artillery guns and ammunitions, said Raj Kumar, secretary (defence production) of Indian defence ministry.

Police arrested a man on charges of raping a madrasa student in Jashore town early yesterday.

Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth.

The Dhaka University yesterday postponed the admission test for the evening programme of Master of Business Administration (MBA).

The Armed Forces Day is being celebrated today amid festivity and enthusiasm, marking the establishment of the forces during the Liberation War.

Pakistan President ZA Bhutto announces at a jirga meeting today that 10,000 Bangalee women and children would be allowed to go back to their

Probashi Kallyan Bank, a specialised financial institution for migrant workers, is struggling to conduct its day-to-day activities due to manpower shortage.

Scottish author Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his acclaimed debut novel “Shuggie Bain,” set in his home city of Glasgow.

All health inspectors, assistant health inspectors and health assistants will start work abstention for an indefinite period from November 26, demanding a solution to “salary discrimination”.

CID officers arrested a morgue assistant of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College on charges of necrophilia.

Two rights groups of Malaysia yesterday condemned the country’s government for planning to make migrant workers wear wristbands under the pretext of containing Covid-19.