Formerly incarcerated cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore went through surgery in his ear yesterday for the wound in his right ear that resulted from the torture he underwent during detention.

After joining as the vice-chancellor of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur three years and eight months ago, Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah went to the campus on only 237 days, a section of the university teachers claimed.

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said yesterday, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.

In most restaurants of Companiganj’s Basurhat, an instruction is clearly written on the walls: “Conversations over politics are strictly prohibited.”

Japanese researchers have shown that a type of sea slug are able to self-decapitate and regrow their bodies, a discovery that could have ramifications for regenerative medicine.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, said today at a public meeting in Karachi that if power was to be transferred to the people before any constitutional settlement, as demanded by Bangabandu, it should be transferred to the Awami League in the East and the PPP in the West.

Awami League yesterday nominated Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayan, the party’s Laxmipur district unit general secretary, to contest the Laxmipur-2 by-election.

London police on Friday charged a fellow officer with kidnap and murder, hours after confirming a body discovered in woodland was that of a missing woman in a high-profile case that has shocked Britain.

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.

Gunmen raided a college in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped at least 30 students, government officials and parents said yesterday, in the latest mass abduction targeting a school.

Dozens of countries yesterday took Russia to task at the UN over its imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and slammed numerous “arbitrary arrests” of his supporters.

Turkey and Egypt have had their first diplomatic contacts since breaking off relations in 2013, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday.

A homeless man spent five hours last month freely roaming the military base where the US president’s plane is kept, after easily passing through several layers of security, the Air Force admitted Thursday.

Prof Syed A Ahad, founder general member of the North South University (NSU) Trust, passed away at Labaid Hospital, Dhaka yesterday.

The first death anniversary of Jahanara Rahman, wife of late Air Commodore Ghazi Lutfur Rahman, was observed yesterday, said a press release.

Ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer yesterday rejected junta corruption claims against her as ‘groundless’, as Britain advised its citizens to flee Myanmar amid escalating crackdown on protesters.

An endangered leopard cat was killed while crossing a road in Jonakichhara area of ​​Lawachhara forest in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila yesterday.

India’s new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Police yesterday arrested seven people, including three teachers, over their alleged involvement in beating a madrasa student to death in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj upazila.

Onion prices shot up in Dhaka markets over the last week as supply of imported bulbs and early harvested varieties declined.