The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused “Zionists” of assassinating a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, the Guards’ official website reported.

Around 100 people have died in clashes between gold miners in northern Chad, Defence Minister General Daoud Yaya Brahim said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden said yesterday he would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could hit targets well inside Russian territory, despite urgent requests from Kyiv for long-range weapons.

At least 10 people were injured when two groups of ruling Awami League activists clashed over taking control of an illegal sand quarry in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila on Sunday night.

A Joypurhat court sent a private tutor to jail yesterday on charge of raping his student in Akkelpur upazila.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee in Beijing, state media said yesterday, telling the former security chief that he has the full trust of the central government.

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored an order to stay at home and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation.

Dhaka has sought Delhi’s suggestions on how to purchase energy and wheat from Russia.

Election Commissioner Ahsan Habib Khan yesterday said one of the main challenges in using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in elections is interference by “goons” who forcibly press the EVM buttons for the voters.

Dhaka Wasa and the icddr,b yesterday said they tested Wasa supply water at source and found it to be safe.

One of the two constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, who had gone missing in the Netherlands during an official training, contacted his family and said that he would not return home.

Nepali rescuers called off their hunt for a missing passenger plane with 22 people on board late yesterday, planning to resume search operations at first light.

Police detained seven Rohingyas, including three children, in Cox’s  Bazar’s Ukhia upazila on Saturday night for illegal entry into  Bangladesh from India.

BNP is observing the 41st death anniversary of its founder and former president Ziaur Rahman today.

Ukrainian forces endured heavy artillery barrages yesterday as they held off Russian attempts to capture Severodonetsk, the largest city Kyiv still controls in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said.

Ten people, including a nine-year-old, died and 25 others were seriously injured as a bus of Jamuna Line Transport crashed into a tree in Sanuhar area of Ujirpur, Barishal, in the early morning yesterday.

Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan president’s home yesterday as the government offered an olive branch to demonstrators demanding his resignation.

Turkey will not wait for US “permission” to launch a new offensive in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published yesterday, defying a warning from Washington.

Train services between Bangladesh and India resumed yesterday after remaining suspended for over two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) yesterday fined 64 traders Tk 9.18 lakh for their failure to protect consumers’ rights.