A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to recent evidence that mammals roamed that part of South America a lot earlier than previously thought.

The Martial Law Authority in Dhaka announced today that government troops had destroyed all “subversive elements” in Chandpur and it promised that the lives and property of “minorities and other people” in the eastern wing of the country would be protected.

Jama’atul Mujahideen India, the Indian wing of mainstream JMB, was divided into three factions due to differences of opinion between leaders.

Eminent Rabindra Sangeet exponent and Ekushey Padak awardee Mita Huq passed away at 6:20 yesterday morning in the capital’s Bangladesh Specialized Hospital.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen underscored the need for meaningful mutual cooperation, improvement in response to health-related emergency situations, and an increase in female participation to tackle the challenges posed by the unprecedented pandemic in establishing world peace.

The Chinese government will soon send five lakh jabs of Covid-19 vaccines, developed by their state-owned drug maker Sinopharm, to Bangladesh as gift, health officials said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday the United States is concerned about China’s aggressive actions against Taiwan and warned it would be a “serious mistake” for anyone to try to change the status quo in the Western Pacific by force.

Neither the driver nor the assistant of an Egyptian train that crashed at speed into another last month were at the controls during the deadly accident, the prosecution service said yesterday.

Indian Border Security Force shot and injured a citizen of the country when he was entering Bangladesh through Kurigram’s Fulbari border on Saturday night.

Health officials reported 78 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday, the highest in a day since the first three cases of coronavirus were detected last year.

Two supporters of rival Dakshin Ulania union chairperson candidates were killed in a clash in Barishal’s Mehendiganj upazila early yesterday.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi government of mismanaging the Covid19 situation in India and said India must focus on its own vaccination drive first before exporting them.

cMembers of the anti-Islam, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany gathered on Saturday despite coronavirus restrictions for a two-day congress in Dresden, to finalise their strategy ahead of the general election on September 26.

India will accept compensation of 1.1 million euros from Italy for the families of two fishermen shot dead by Italian marines in 2012, signalling an end to a long-winding case that soured relations between the two nations.

At least seven people were killed after a 6.0 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s main Java island yesterday, as the country reels from a cyclone disaster in another part of the archipelago.

India’s daily coronavirus cases yesterday rose by a record for the fifth time this week and deaths surged to the highest in more than five months, with hospitals and crematoriums overflowing in parts of the country.

A second whale carcass washed ashore at Himchhari beach of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested three people on charge of sodomising a minor boy in Chatkhil municipality area of Noakhali.

Five people were killed in fresh election bloodshed in the Indian state of West Bengal yesterday, during the fourth phase of polling when an estimated 76.16 percent of voters exercised their franchise.

The Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro today broadcast a speech by the prime minister of the newly formed government-in-exile Tajuddin Ahmad.