Sudan’s government and rebel groups yesterday inked a landmark peace deal aimed at ending decades of war in which hundreds of thousands died.

Three advisers to Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli yesterday said they had tested positive for Covid-19, which has claimed the lives of 528 people in the country.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has already been convicted of sex crimes in New York, was charged Friday in Los Angeles with six new counts over the alleged rapes of two women.

Deaths from the novel coronavirus in India passed 100,000 yesterday, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world’s second most populous country.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have busted a firearms-making factory in a remote hilly area of Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar and arrested two firearms makers in this connection.

The overall flood situation in Sirajganj deteriorated yesterday as flood water from the swelling Jamuna and other rivers inundated new areas in the district.

With this, the total number of deaths rose to 5,325, while the death rate stood at 1.45 percent.

A Narayanganj court has summoned eight police officials to appear before it after a man, allegedly abducted and murdered six years ago, appeared before another local court during the trial of a case on Wednesday.

The overall flood situation in three northern districts deteriorated yesterday as the water levels in the local rivers started to rise again.

A passenger of a pickup was killed and its driver and his helper helper were injured as the vehicle collided head-on with a truck on Bangabandhu Bridge East Link Road in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila yesterday.

A newly married woman has been strangled allegedly by her husband and his family members for dowry in Mymensingh Sadar upazila.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das left for Delhi yesterday, more than one and a half years of her tenure here, while the new Indian envoy is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka next week.

The government is set to launch next year a non-formal education programme for nine lakh children who have either dropped out of, or never gone to, school.

The female peacekeepers of Bangladesh Police have been given the responsibility to ensure security at Congo’s Monusco Airport which is run by the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Mission.

Home Minister Abdul Mannan announces today that over 41,000 collaborators including about 275 police officials have so far been arrested by the government.

Usually, Vienna’s trams can be seen gliding past Baroque palaces, but this winter, one of them will take on a new role: helping Viennese get the seasonal flu vaccine.

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a surge in potentially flawed scientific studies as researchers rush to publish results without adequate oversight, a leading medical ethicist said yesterday.

At least three detainees have died in Saudi facilities housing thousands of Ethiopian migrants who are enduring “unimaginable cruelty” during the coronavirus pandemic, Amnesty International said in a report yesterday.

A teenage girl sustained acid attack allegedly by her husband in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila early yesterday as she refused to stay with him.

The US Justice Department said Thursday that it brought home 27 Americans who went to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State group, as Washington again urged other nations to do the same.