India yesterday denied allegations by its arch-rival Pakistan that New Delhi had helped fund militant groups on Pakistani soil, with a foreign ministry spokesman dismissing them as “fabricated” and “figments of imagination”.

Two employees of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital confessed yesterday before a magistrate to their involvement in the death of Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammad Anisul Karim on November 9.

Japanese ambassador Takashi Oyamada communicates to Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Japan’s willingness to provide technical help to Bangladesh when he calls on Bangabandhu at the Gono Bhaban today.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday expressed his optimism over signing of the Teesta water-sharing deal with India, saying it remains ready for signing since 2011.

Germany yesterday warned that its anti-coronavirus measures were likely to last four or five more months, as Greece announced a new ban on gatherings and Mexico surpassed one million infections.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was found infected with Covid-19 on Saturday night.

If the public and legal channels through which a survivor can report rape are not gender-sensitive, the consequences can be disastrous.

Afghan forces have captured the “mastermind” of a brutal attack on Kabul University when militants stormed classrooms and gunned down dozens of students earlier this month, a top official said yesterday.

As the world celebrates advances in vaccines against the novel coronavirus, a top WHO expert warned that public distrust risked rendering even the most effective treatments useless against the pandemic as global death toll from the virus topped 1.3 million yesterday.

Donald Trump said Friday that “time will tell” if he remains president, in a momentary slip of his unprecedented refusal to concede his election defeat and help Democrat Joe Biden prepare to take power.

Bangladesh and India will draw up plans to take the Dhaka-Delhi relations to the next level expanding areas of cooperation between the two countries with a number of engagements next month, officials say.

Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.

A Bangladeshi teenager made an impassioned plea Friday for stronger global action against cyberbullying and online crime involving children as he received a prestigious global children’s award.

Sir Robert Jackson, United Nations under secretary general and chief coordinator of the United Nations relief operations in Bangladesh, told

All 18 government offices in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila have filed a complaint with the deputy commissioner about the upazila chairman’s alleged indecent and abusive behaviour to officers.

Today is the 45th death anniversary of Majr Gen (retd) MA Rab, Bir Uttam, chief of staff of Liberation Forces and first honorary managing director of “Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust”, says a press release.

Bars and restaurants in America’s biggest city closed yesterday as the coronavirus outbreak surged across the United States and Europe, where Greece was being forced into a nighttime curfew.

Police yesterday arrested the muezzin of Burimari Central Mosque in connection to the beating and burning to death of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila on October 29.

A huge gilded statue of a dog has been unveiled on a busy traffic circle in the capital of Turkmenistan by the country’s longtime leader, who has also written an ode to the local breed and gifted one to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Bangladeshi garment company urged the government to help relocate its 104 expatriate workers stranded in Ethiopia’s conflict-torn northern Tigray region.