Russia won China’s backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine yesterday, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led Nato military alliance should not admit new members.

After damaging two canals by building dams and extracting their sands, a local syndicate linked to the ruling party is now tearing apart a wildlife sanctuary by scooping out sand from it and topsoil from adjacent arable land in Dulahazara union of Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar.

Today is the 27th death anniversary of Haisya Bala Malakar.

Residents of Manikganj brought out a human chain yesterday, protesting an incident of acid attack on a female garment worker at Dhanakora Ferajipara village of Saturia upazila on January 26.

Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, published body-cam video Thursday showing the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man.

A little-known militant group has claimed the latest drone attack on the United Arab Emirates, raising the possibility of widening security threats after a wave of assaults from Yemeni rebels.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested three people, including a newly-elected union member, in connection with the murder case of Farid Uddin, who was hacked to death by miscreants at Barakhewor village in Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila on January 31.

On February 21, 1952, a meeting of students began at Amtala (now Dhaka Medical College and Hospital). Gaziul Haque presided over the meeting.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one, said the seminal American president Abraham Lincoln.

A woman, who sold her newborn to pay the hospital bill for childbirth, has got back the baby.

At least seven people, including three motorcyclists, were killed and 23 others injured in road accidents in Dhaka and four other districts yesterday.

India’s official Covid-19 death toll crossed 500,000 yesterday, a level some data analysts said was breached last year but was obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease.

The dried ripe fruits of the “horitoki” tree, also known as chebulic myrobalan (Terminalia chebula), have been used as an integral part of the subcontinent’s traditional medicine for ages.

Multiple regions of the country have been facing light to moderate rain since yesterday morning, triggering chilly weather conditions.

The government could not control rice price although it had the highest ever rice stock and record production of Aush, Aman and Boro varieties, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

There is no possibility of expansion of the US sanctions against Rab either in the US or elsewhere, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Officials at Chattogram passport office yesterday handed a Rohingya man to police for attempting to get a Bangladeshi passport.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent a man to jail in a case filed over the gang rape of woman after Rab arrested him the capital.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to law professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman Karzon of Dhaka University for eight weeks in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Businessman Abu Mohasin Khan who died by suicide in his Dhanmondi apartment on Wednesday night left a note saying that he was swindled out of Tk 5.1 crore by several individuals, said police.