Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been keeping indifferent health over the last few days. Even so, he continued with his usual busy programme despite his physician’s request, according to a health bulletin issued in Dhaka today by the personal physician to the prime minister.

Thailand’s premier said yesterday he was “worried” about a burgeoning student movement calling for the dissolution of his government, as pro-democracy protesters plot rallies and other creative displays of dissent across the kingdom.

The accused are Faisal Al Islam, 34, the managing director, Abul Hasnat, 52, the hospital’s assistant director, and it’s inventory officer Shahriz Kabir, 33.

A group of Rohingyas who survived a perilous sea voyage to Malaysia are set to be caned for entering the country illegally, activists said yesterday, decrying the “barbaric” sentence.

Turkey will maintain its military presence in northern Syria “until the people are free,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, blasting the “so-called” parliamentary vote in the war-torn country.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would send law enforcement to more U.S. cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests in Oregon with unmarked cars and unidentified forces angered people across the country.

A senior Palestinian official on Monday accused Israel of stealing a historical Christian artefact from the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming will be the first volunteer to take part in the final or phase-3 human trial of a prospective Chinese Covid-19 vaccine in Bangladesh.

European leaders yesterday agreed a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies, as US President Donald Trump finally came out in favour of face masks as a tool against the coronavirus.

A suspected rapist of a schoolgirl was killed in a “gunfight’ between Rab and a “drug-peddling gang” in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila early yesterday.

South Africa’s growing Covid-19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Dhaka has planned to deploy additional troops in Indo-Bangla bordering areas to decrease border killings and alleged cattle smuggling.

The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed “Hope”, blasted off from Japan yesterday on a mission to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet.

A prime accused in a police official murder case and two suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with Rab and police in Brahmanbaria, Dhaka, and Cox’s Bazar districts early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday fined Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder for seeking anticipatory bail from abroad in a case filed over abducting, torturing and opening fire at two top Exim Bank officials over a loan permission.

Flood-hit pregnant women in Kurigram are exposed to health risks as they are deprived of proper healthcare services.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today asks the student community to remain ever vigilant against conspirators who are working to undo the independence. He asks them to remain prepared to shed more blood, if necessary.

Iranian police said yesterday they had arrested people behind protests that broke out last week in the southwest of the country, state news agency IRNA reported.

Pakistan resumed its polio vaccination campaign yesterday after a four-month pause due to the coronavirus outbreak, which health authorities feared would cause a surge in cases of the crippling disease.

Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, has pleaded “not guilty” to second-degree murder, reports CNN.