The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned yesterday.

An alleged Rohingya drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB members in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf early yesterday.

A group of unidentified criminals hacked a former activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to death in Ramgarh upazila of Khagrachhari.

A Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of China’s President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party was released yesterday after six days of detention, his friends said.

Mali’s embattled president announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt to calm the major civil unrest gripping the vulnerable African country, as more opposition leaders were arrested.

A seriously injured tigress was found dead near Andharmanik forest camp in the Sundarbans on Friday.

Three generations of Bollywood’s Bachchan family were hit by the coronavirus as former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter yesterday joined her father-in-law Amitabh and husband Abhishek in testing positive for the virus that causes Covid-19.

Senior career diplomat Vikram Doraiswami is likely to be India’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh, succeeding Riva Ganguly Das.

Bangladeshis, willing to go abroad, must obtain coronavirus negative certificates from the government approved testing centres following due process, the government said yesterday.

Mandatory use of face masks and social distancing have kept the number of Covid-19 cases low in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila, compared to the district’s 12 other upazilas, local officials say.

Child marriage increased sharply in the country with 462 girls falling victim to such malpractices in June during the coronavirus pandemic, Manusher Jonno Foundation yesterday said in its monthly telesurvey report.

Egyptian police have seized kites from people flying them after a ban by a northern governorate for “safety” reasons and a lawmaker’s warning they posed a “national security threat”.

NAP Chief Maulana Bhashani says in an emotion-choked voice, “Mujib is the only hope of the nation. I love him. I pray nothing untoward may ever happen to him.”

Sufferings of flood-hit people in the northern and north-eastern regions have intensified as rivers continued to swell.

The coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 565,000 people out of nearly 13 million registered cases worldwide, has been accelerating sharply since the start of July, according to a count carried out by AFP from official sources.

An abandoned oil tanker lying off Yemen’s coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board is deteriorating badly and could rupture at any time, with disastrous results for Red Sea marine life, UN and other experts warn.

Britain yesterday pledged £705 million ($890 million, 788 million euros) to prepare its borders for cutting ties with the European Union on December 31, amid concern within government that it is not ready.

For a second time this monsoon, heavy rainfall and rising river waters have inundated vast areas of the country’s northern and northeastern regions.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday in a letter said it took the initiative to sign the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Regent Hospital after being directed by “higher authorities” in the health ministry.

A US court halted Friday what would have been the first federal execution in 17 years, yielding to a request from victims’ relatives worried about traveling during the pandemic to watch the inmate die.