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.

Myanmar’s junta said yesterday that a protest campaign against its rule was dwindling since people wanted peace, and that it would hold elections within two years, the first timeframe it has given for a return to democracy since its February 1 coup.

Brahmanbaria unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday said they would file sedition cases against Hefajat-e-Islam leaders if the latter did not offer an apology for “spreading lies” about the recent mayhem in the district.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor that they say is the “largest” ever found in Egypt and dates back to a golden age of the pharaohs 3,000 years ago.

Analysing satellite images, Paris-based company Kayrros SAS has detected huge plumes of methane gas over Bangladesh, reports the Bloomberg.

Indian opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday called for an immediate halt to export of Covid-19 vaccine amid a record-setting spike in fresh cases of the virus.

Nine staffers of the bulk carrier, which rammed a launch causing it to sink in the Shitalakkhya in ​​Narayanganj on Sunday, were sent to jail and five others placed on a two-day remand yesterday.

Today’s fourth-phase voting for the West Bengal Assembly elections is expected to be balanced on a knife edge between Trinamool Congress and India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, considering the voting ratio of the last Lok Sabha polls.

The Mujibnagar Government was formed today to conduct the Bangladesh War of Liberation. The official announcement declaring independence of Bangladesh,

A man was shot dead allegedly by his rivals in front of his house in Chattogram’s Rangunia yesterday afternoon.

A new cyclone was barrelling toward Indonesia and threatened to spark more floods and landslides, authorities warned yesterday, as the archipelago reeled from a storm that killed more than 200 people, including victims in neighbouring East Timor.

New York state will issue one-time payments of up to $15,000 to undocumented migrants who lost work during the pandemic under a multi-billion-dollar fund championed by progressive Democrats but opposed by Republicans.

Md Abul Hashem, a freedom fighter and an organiser of the Liberation War, passed away yesterday.

A day labourer drowned while extracting stones from the Dahug river at Mandulpara village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh yesterday noon.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by a youth in Taltoli upazila of Barguna district yesterday.

Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domestic media reported yesterday.

The United States has restored assistance to the Palestinians severed under former president Donald Trump with an announcement of $235 million.