People’s wait for smoother and faster rail communication between Dhaka and Chattogram will be prolonged further as the deadline for expansion of the Akhaura-Lakhsam section on this crucial route is set to be extended for a second time.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the owner of the speedboat that caused an accident and claimed 26 lives in the Padma’s Kathalbari point at Banglabazar in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila.

A stronger divisive communal brand of politics in India will also make the same brand of politics stronger in Bangladesh, discussants said yesterday.

A leading Iraqi anti-government activist was killed early yesterday, security sources and activists said, sending supporters of a protest movement onto the streets to demand an end to bloodshed.

A Covid-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and it is feared it could be dodging some vaccine protections, contributing to the country’s explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said.

Protesters marched against the junta in dozens of places on Saturday. At least 774 civilians have been killed by security forces and 3,778 are detained, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group.

A Faridpur court sent a man to jail yesterday on charge of raping a 13-year-old girl in Gopalganj’s Kashiani upazila.

The country is likely to experience medium to heavy rains today and tomorrow following a brief spell of rain that brought relief from the scorching heat in the capital and elsewhere yesterday.

In the desert just north of Las Vegas, a long white metal tube sits at the base of the mountains, promising to one day revolutionize travel.

Bangladesh reported 45 more coronavirus-related deaths with 1,285 new cases in 24 hours until yesterday morning, amid concern after the detection of the first case of highly contagious Indian coronavirus strain in the country.

Maulana Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury, former MP from Sunamganj-3, was sent to Brahmanbaria Jail on Friday in a case filed over Hefajat violence in late March.

The Covid-19 second wave has ravaged the commercial aviation at a time when it was trying to bounce back, braving the financial losses caused by the first wave, aviation experts and top airlines officials said yesterday.

Daily Covid-19 deaths surged past 4,000 for the first time in India yesterday, as Europe passed the ball back to Washington in a debate over Covid vaccine patents, pushing the US for a concrete proposal and a commitment to export much-needed jabs.

The Pakistan government was reported ready to carry out recommendations of the United States, the World Bank, the international Monetary Fund and other international donors for a 100 percent devaluation of its currency, from 4.6 rupees to the dollar to more nearly 9, 10 or 11.

The holy Shab-e-Qadr, also known as Lailatul Qadr, will be observed across the country tonight.

Consumers are being compelled to buy liquified petroleum gas (LPG) at a much higher price than the one set by the regulator.

People in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh are fighting not just a raging pandemic but also a prickly Hindu nationalist local government that many say is in denial.

Bangladesh’s healthcare expenditure is the lowest in South Asia, former governor of Bangladesh Bank Atiur Rahman said at a pre-budget webinar yesterday, demanding that the allocation for the sector be increased.

The Scottish National Party yesterday appeared likely to fall short of its goal of an absolute majority in the devolved parliament as it pushes for a new independence referendum, a plan condemned as reckless by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

A rape case has been filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, in Chattogram, said police.