Singapore and neighbouring Malaysia have scrapped plans for a high-speed rail line after failing to agree on changes, officials said yesterday, finally abandoning a costly and long-troubled project.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday detained two men for their alleged involvement with banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.

Iran’s judiciary chief yesterday warned that Qasem Soleimani’s killers will “not be safe on Earth”, as the Islamic republic began marking the first anniversary of the top general’s assassination in a US strike.

People of low income group are suffering immensely as a mild to moderate cold wave sweeping through the country’s northern region.

Though the number of daily tests increased, a fall in the total number of coronavirus cases was seen in December compared to the previous month.

People living in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens have reported several squirrel attacks over the past month, with one woman needing emergency attention after a bite to the hand.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was shot dead in Teknaf over what police said was his enmity with two local men.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh surged to 7,559 with 28 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until yesterday morning.

Faridpur town Awami League’s organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Harun Mondal was yesterday shown arrested in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.

The incidents of rape and violence against women this year were more than previous years despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rights body Ain O Salish Kendra said yesterday.

Two students are killed and seven others are injured when the police on duty open fire upon a procession of students organised by DUCSU and Bangladesh Chhatra Union in observance of Vietnam Day today.

The UN yesterday voiced outrage at the execution of a man in Iran who was only 16 when he committed his alleged crime, marking the fourth juvenile offender put to death in the country this year.

A Uighur Muslim doctor has been jailed on terrorism charges, Beijing confirmed yesterday, a day after her family told US politicians she had been sentenced to 20 years.

Din Mohammad had made up his mind to go to Malaysia in desperate want of a better life.

The world yesterday began ushering in the New Year, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020.

In a rare instance, a parliamentary committee yesterday formed three sub-committees to look into issues, including the allegations of irregularities and corruption in the collection of tolls at bridges across the country.

He drives a Nissan X-Trail and lives in a duplex with foreign fittings in Keshorhat village of Rajshahi’s Mohanpur, where such luxuries raise quite a few eyebrows.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said yesterday that Qatar’s ruler is invited to the bloc’s summit meeting next week amid efforts to heal rifts between Doha and a Saudi-led alliance.

Four persons, including a five-year-old child, were killed in an accident on Sylhet-Zakiganj road in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early yesterday.

Four public engineering universities have decided in principle to form a cluster and hold a uniform admission test.