Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is convalescing in Geneva had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad the night before.

Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tripoli announced a ceasefire on Friday and the leader of a rival parliament in eastern Libya also appealed for a halt to hostilities.

Three Bangladeshi men, allegedly with no travel documents, and a female private taxi driver were arrested at a roadblock in Jalan Napoh, Changlun, near Jitra in Malaysia.

The daily death toll from Covid-19 rose again yesterday.

Two Supreme Court lawyers served a legal notice on the authorities concerned of the government yesterday, requesting them to suspend the director general of the postal directorate claiming that the DG met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina despite testing positive for Covid-19.

US President Donald Trump warned Friday that the results of the November 3 presidential election could take weeks or months to determine.

Police yesterday arrested a sub-inspector of police in a case filed over stabbing a man, who died the next day, in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila on August 1.

The flood situation has worsened in at least six districts of the southern coastal region due to rainfall and high tide.

Five months after Covid-19 cases first emerged in Pabna, the district health authorities say it is much better placed than other districts in terms of number of cases.

Rab yesterday took three members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) into custody for interrogation in a case filed over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

To avoid animosity with locals responsible for the deaths of wild elephants in the Chattogram region, forest department officials manipulate autopsy reports by attributing the deaths to natural causes and rarely file cases, thus sparing the killers of a critically endangered species.

A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house said.

A seventh-grader rape victim was abducted allegedly by her rapist and his family members in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram on Thursday.

A union parishad member in Saidpur upazila of Nilphamari is enjoying a government allowance meant for the elderly poor people.

The Security Council’s committee on the admission of new members by an overwhelming majority favours the immediate admission of Bangladesh into the United Nations today.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday arrested the president of Chhatra League Faridpur district unit in connection with a money laundering case.

Vast areas in the country’s southern region have been affected by floods, while water has been receding from the northern region and some other districts.

Senior Saudi security commanders were among a string of officials sacked over graft allegations at tourism projects, state media said yesterday, in the government’s latest anti-corruption purge.

UN Refugee Agency has called for renewed support and lasting solutions for the displaced Rohingya communities both within and outside of Myanmar.

International conspiracies connected to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s assassination should be investigated, scholars from home and abroad told a webinar on Thursday.