The High Court yesterday acquitted a death-row prisoner convicted of killing his wife in Gournadi, Barishal, in 2010.

One in every 1,000 tuberculosis (TB) patient in Bangladesh has HIV, found a recent study -- in what can be viewed as a boost to the country’s bid to end the infectious disease and meet 90-90-90 targets for HIV by 2030.

Pakistani President Yahya Khan, in a letter dated June 28, 1971, expressed his disappointment to American President Richard Nixon at Pakistan

Belgium’s Thorgan Hazard thundered in a first-half winner as they beat title holders Portugal 1-0 in their Euro 2020 last-16 game on Sunday to move into the last eight.

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford yesterday began new trials to test a modified vaccine against the Beta variant, which first emerged in South Africa.

A schoolboy was killed after abduction for ransom in Meherpur’s Gangni upazila on Saturday.

Ninety-three percent of those who received both doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have developed antibodies against Covid-19, according to a study done at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday framed charges against 15 accused, including suspended police inspector Liaqat Ali and former OC of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, in a case over the killing of Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Searchers worked early yesterday to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida condo building that collapsed three days ago as questions arose about the tower’s structural integrity.

Britain’s mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign has weakened the link between infections and deaths but it has not yet been completely broken, the head of a scientific advisory body to the government said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday questioned the use of certain offensive words in a Talaq (divorce) notice.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said the government has dropped 10 coal-fired power plant projects, with total generation capacity of 8451 MW, as it seeks to revise the country’s power system master plan (PSMP).

A five-year-old child was found murdered after being raped in her home in the port city’s Chandgaon area yesterday.

A one-and-a-half-month old girl has been infected with the coronavirus in a rare case of Covid-19 in an infant.

Moscow yesterday recorded the worst daily coronavirus death toll so far for a Russian city, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extended or reimposed restrictions to tackle fresh waves of infections.

A 40-year-old man, who was once a member of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), was taken from his home and stabbed dead in the early hours today in Dighinala, Khagrachhari.

A contractor has allegedly threatened a railway engineer publicly for not complying with his wishes of using poor materials in a road construction project in Kurigram.

Two teenage girls were raped by a youth in a village of Cox’s Bazar Chakaria upazila on Tuesday night, police said.

The Pakistan army attacked at least five villages within 30 miles of Dhaka in the last four days, killing Hindu men and burning homes and markets in pre-dawn raids, reported Washington Star on June 28, 1971.

Pineapples grown in Tangail’s Madhupur are known to be delicious, but most farmers this time are using excessive hormone to grow bigger fruits and ripe them ahead of time.