Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators yesterday, killing 11 people, media and witnesses said, a day after dozens of protesters were shot dead and attackers torched several Chinese-financed factories in the city of Yangon.

Another case was filed yesterday in connection with the February 19 clash between two Awami League factions in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila, which left a local journalist dead.

Pabna-1 lawmaker Samsul Haque Tuku’s son Nafis Sams has allegedly grabbed vast government land beside the Jamuna in the district’s Bera upazila and forcibly removed landless people from the area.

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Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world’s biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.

Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Noakhali’s Basurhat municipality and younger brother of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, was sued yesterday over the death of an auto-rickshaw driver in an incident of violence in Companiganj upazila.

The High Court yesterday observed that no student can be tortured, intimidated and pressurised physically or mentally as per an earlier directive of the court .

President Yahya Khan arrived in Dhaka today. No local political leader went to the airport to meet him. All the entries of the airport were heavily guarded. Siddiq Salik, then public relations officer in the Pakistan army in Dhaka, recounts,

The overall death toll for Syria’s civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said yesterday.

Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday as he visited an area devastated by forest fires, TV footage showed.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit asked banks to provide detailed information of accounts and transactions of eight persons, including former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, current Executive Director Md Shah Alam and their spouses.

The Biden administration ordered the government’s disaster emergency agency Saturday to help with a surge in migrant children crossing the southern border that has overwhelmed processing facilities.

Russian police on Saturday arrested around 200 opposition politicians and municipal deputies at a Moscow conference as authorities tighten the screws on Kremlin critics ahead of parliamentary elections.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzak yesterday said that the portrait of Bangabandhu painted for the first time using the huge canvas of green paddy field will be a unique celebration of his birth centenary.

Rohingya criminals have shot a man dead from the same community, over establishing supremacy between groups, in a refugee camp at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, said police.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday commissioned two new Dash 8-Q400 aircraft in the Biman Bangladesh fleet, three months after the state-run airlines inducted one short-haul craft of the same brand which now enhanced the fleet strength to 21.

A court in Khulna yesterday rejected the bail petition of leftist leader Ruhul Amin in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).

At least 14 anti-coup protesters were killed yesterday as demonstrators across Myanmar continued to defy military rule and a group of ousted MPs urged them to “defend themselves” during the nation’s “darkest moment”.

India will carry out a deeper review of post-vaccination side effects from the AstraZeneca shot next week although no cases of blood clots have been reported so far, an official told AFP yesterday.

Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government yesterday vowed in a first public address to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the Feb 1 military coup.