At least 150 people were injured in separate clashes between police and BNP activists in Kishorganj and Noagaon yesterday.

Bangladesh is lagging behind most of its South Asian peers in terms of smartphone use, according to a report of GSMA, which represents mobile operators worldwide.

A former Pakistani diplomat has said the people of Pakistan should urge their government to offer a formal apology to the people of Bangladesh for the genocide its military committed in 1971.

Multiple Hindu temples and homes have come under attack since Sunday in different districts.

The European Union is set to agree to sanction several Iranian individuals today for human rights abuses, the first such measures since 2013, three EU diplomats said.

India’s Covid-19 situation is turning from “bad to worse,” a senior government official said yesterday, as infections surge across several states. “Remember if the cases are more, they will eventually overwhelm the system”, senior NITI Aayog Member Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference.

Afghan migrants accused French police Saturday of driving them back across the border with Italy by firing into the air, a media report said, while French gendarmes denied the charge.

A ninth-grader was injured in an acid attack in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila on Saturday evening, family sources said.

India saw 62,714 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 1,19,71,624, while the daily deaths crossed the 300-mark for the first time in 2021.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four weeks a High Court verdict that granted bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Md Salim, in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three councilors -- former and incumbent -- along with a Cox’s Bazar municipality office assistant, yesterday for allegedly assisting some Rohingyas to get enrolled in the voter list through forgery.

Tangail District Cultural Officer Redwana Islam was found murdered inside a hospital cabin on Saturday.

On top of being unable to communicate via Facebook and its Messenger app for over three days, people in certain areas in the country are not even getting decent internet from mobile carriers.

Myanmar security forces opened fire yesterday, witnesses said, at people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military coup on February 1.

In the evening, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was flown via helicopter from the cantonment, where he was detained, to the Tejgaon Airport. Afterwards, he was flown to Karachi by a special military aircraft.

Kurdish forces launched a security operation in a camp for suspected family members of Islamic State group militants and made dozens of arrests yesterday, a war monitor and Kurdish officials said.

In Dampara Police Lines, Chittagong, Bangalee police personnel put up a brave resistance. But they could not hold on for long as they were not trained in the art of warfare. They suffered heavy casualties and abandoned their post when they were about to be overrun by the Pakistan army.

A nine-year-old Mexican child died while trying to cross the Rio Grande into the United States, the Border Patrol said Friday amid a surge in migrants seeking to enter the country.

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A 22 year-old woman died last night four days after her husband and mother-in-law set her on fire in Kabiler Para area of Gaibandha.