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.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the report published by Transparency International, Bangladesh on parliamentary activities was not based on reliable information.

The European Union yesterday launched legal proceedings in response to the British government’s attempt to overturn parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

At least 55,000 Bangladeshi expatriates have been waiting to board Saudi Arabia-bound flights with return their tickets in hand since the Covid-19 pandemic halted their return to the Kingdom.

Human Rights Watch has urged the Bangladesh government to allow a UN visit to Bhashan Char before any Rohingya relocation.

Officials of Chattogram Custom House recovered 82 gold bars weighing 9.5 kilograms worth around Tk 5.64 crore in Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday morning.

Amnesty International has called for the Bangladesh authorities to immediately release at least 370 migrant workers, who were arbitrarily detained between July and September following their return to the country.

US President Donald Trump scrambled to quell an uproar over his failure to explicitly denounce white supremacist groups during his debate debacle with Joe Biden, who branded his election rival a “national embarrassment.”

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a directive issued today at various government departments instructs them to make expeditious payment of allowances to the families and dependents of Bangalee officials stranded in Pakistan as per his mid-July order.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged to increase women’s participation in the workforce to 50-50 by 2041 and called for protecting their jobs in the context of Covid-19 pandemic.

Bangladesh’s leading drug manufacturer Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd has become one of a few Asian companies to secure approval from the prestigious regulatory body European Union Good Manufacturing Practice (EU GMP) to produce anti-cancer drugs.

Dr Tahmeed Ahmed has been made the new executive director of the icddr’b, a renowned international public health research organisation.

School closure due to the pandemic will be extended and the decision on holding the postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be announced on Monday or Tuesday.

Democrat Joe Biden told a raging President Donald Trump to “shut up” in a chaotic opening debate that turned almost immediately into a shouting match weeks ahead of the most tense US election in recent memory.

The preparation of electoral rolls for the first general election to be held in independent sovereign Bangladesh began throughout the country today. President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are enrolled as voters in the morning.

A man has died in police custody after he was picked up by the law enforcers from Gulistan area on Tuesday.

Bangladesh is “outraged” by Myanmar’s “blatant demonstration of falsehood and fabrication of facts” at the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York.

The immovable property of former member of parliament from Pirojpur AKMA Awal Saydur Rahman has swelled up to about forty times in the last decade, according to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said climate change, pandemics and the destruction of nature are common threats and these should unite all in working towards a common solution -- a cleaner, greener and safer world.

Law enforcers arrested eight men accused in a case filed over Friday night’s rape at the hostel of Murari Chand College in Sylhet.