Nato leaders pursued diplomatic efforts on the Ukraine crisis yesterday after President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to draw Russia into a war but left the door open to further talks.

In January 1952, I was the vice-president of the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League. After Nazimuddin’s speech at Paltan Maidan (January 27, 1952),

A Norway court on Tuesday rejected a request for parole from neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik 10 years after he was convicted of killing 77 people in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.

Ankara yesterday accused Greece of allowing 12 migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes and then pushing them back across the Turkish border.

Three people were killed as a private car rammed into the wheels of a moving train at a level crossing in Dinajpur’s Birampur upazila yesterday morning.

The High Court yesterday blasted the government authorities concerned for their failure in taking effective measures to control the air pollution in Dhaka and its surrounding areas despite its repeated directives.

Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate recovered 46 gold bars, worth around Tk 3 crore, from a wheel of an abandoned vehicle in GSE area of Shah Amanat International Airport Wednesday.

Some 40 leaders and activists, including BNP Central Cooperative Affairs Secretary GK Gaus, have been sent to jail in Habiganj on Tuesday.

A man has died in a ship-breaking yard in Dakshin Sonaichhari area of Chattogram’s Sitakundu upazila early yesterday, allegedly being hit by an iron rod.

US Congressman and Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Gregory W Meeks will visit Bangladesh this year to observe the human rights situation and other issues.

The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 18 people in Quito, washing away cars, damaging homes and sweeping away volleyball players and spectators on a sports field, officials said yesterday.

The family of Nurunnahar Chowdhury, who recently went to the USA for higher education, has allegedly been ostracised by a local mosque committee in the district’s Kulaura upazila over her wearing short dresses and rumours over marrying a Hindu man there.

Prof ABM Abdullah has been named emeritus professor of Bangaban-dhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

As a group of Chinese researchers flagged concerns about NeoCov, claiming this new virus has a latent potential to mutate and penetrate the human population, two Bangladeshi experts think the fear is illogical and there is no need to panic.

Typically, it takes three to four months to appoint a project director.

In the sixth phase of Union Parishad elections held on Monday, independents bagged chairman posts in 95 UPs and Awami League nominees in 117 UPs, according to Election Commission data unveiled yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has bought two Boeing 737-800 aircraft which it had been leasing from Ireland’s Celestial Aviation Trading Ltd since 2009.

The government has asked cable operators to provide set-top boxes (STBs) to their customers in Dhaka and Chattogram cities by March 31.

A single flash of lightning in the United States nearly two years ago cut across the sky for nearly 770 kilometres, setting a new world record, the United Nations said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s navy yesterday said it had arrested 21 Indian fishermen after a confrontation with two trawlers poaching in the island’s territorial waters.