A man was killed and at least 20 others were injured in sporadic clashes over establishing supremacy and business rivalry between two groups in Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.

More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources.

At least seven people were injured as a three-storey building, constructed on a pond without permission from the authorities, collapsed in Maddha Charail Playground area of Keraniganj yesterday.

Eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Rab officials said a drug dealer was shot dead early yesterday in a gunfight with officers in Shopnodhora area of Keraniganj, Dhaka.

Three students from Bangladesh died on Thursday morning in a car crash south of Arborg, Manitoba in Canada, reports CBC News Canada.

After seven months in space, Nasa’s Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed maneuvers to gently float down to the Martian soil yesterday and embark on its mission to search for signs of past life.

Britain’s Prince Harry will relinquish his honorary military appointm-ents and patronages after confirming to Queen Elizabeth II that he and his wife Meghan Markle will not return as working royals, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.

Bangladesh became one of the three large remittance-recipient countries that registered a rise in inward remittance last year, according to a new report of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

At least 30 students were injured in clashes between students of Jahangirnagar University and villagers in Savar’s Gerua Bazar yesterday evening.

The United States Thursday consulted jointly with South Korea and Japan, allies often at odds with each other, as President Joe Biden reviews how to move forward on North Korea.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid declared pardons for jailed anti-government activists and called early elections Thursday, as the crisis-hit country grapples with renewed protests on the second anniversary of a popular uprising.

Dr Sharif Ahmed, a dental surgeon, died at a hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 66, said a press release.

Police yesterday arrested a man in Jashore for his alleged involvement in the rape of a teenage girl in the district’s Jhikargachha upazila.

Police yesterday arrested three people in connection with the murder of a Madrasa student in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to curb food adulteration in Bangladesh with an iron hand alongside creating awareness among businesspeople against such offences.

Six children were killed and five others injured in northwest Uganda after an old explosive they found in the bushes detonated as they played with it, police said yesterday.

The corruption trial of Malaysia’s scandal-plagued former first lady will proceed after a judge ruled yesterday that prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence to make a case, boosting efforts to bring her to justice.

Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Myanmar’s ruling generals yesterday for toppling the civilian-led government while Japan said it had agreed with the United States, India and Australia that democracy must be restored there quickly.

Almost five years after the Bangladesh Bank heist, the most sensational cybercrime involving a financial institution to date, the US Department of Justice has formally announced charges against Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean hacker.