Teachers of Rajshahi University demanded immediate implementation of recent government orders, including relieving Prof Abdul Bari from the post of the university registrar.

The rate of daily positive coronavirus cases dropped yesterday to 8.6 percent, the lowest it has been in more than eight months, while the recovery rate continued to increase.

A woman has been strangled to death allegedly by her husband in Chattogram’s Ambagan Rail Gate area as she prevented him from being involved in an extra marital affair.

Shahadat Hossain was all set to fly to Saudi Arabia in March as a date farm worker, dreaming of a better life for his family members. But before he could make his journey, came the deadly Covid-19, suspending air communications with the Gulf countries in mid-March.

President-elect Joe Biden threw his weight behind the Democratic battle for control of the US Senate on Tuesday, as his White House win was finally acknowledged by top Republicans and holdout foreign leaders.

After 55 years, rail communications between Bangladesh and India through Chilahati-Haldibari route is going to resume today.

UN human rights experts yesterday called on Bangladesh to immediately release cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore from jail due to his deteriorating health.

One of only three artefacts ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found in a misplaced cigar tin in a Scottish university collection, academics revealed yesterday.

The ministers of Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s cabinet, who are sworn in today under the constitution, would retain the same portfolios as they were holding before.

The Civil Aviation Authorities of Bangladesh (Caab) have for the first time placed four full-body x-ray scanners at the pre-boarding security checkpoints at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

At least eight people have remained missing till 4:00pm yesterday since a trawler capsized in the Meghna on Tuesday.

Members of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly attacked some followers of former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque in Brahmanbaria while they were paying homage to martyrs marking the Victory Day yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday greeted all valiant freedom fighters of the country on the occasion of the 50th Victory Day.

Fijians living in the path of an approaching super cyclone were told to hunker down at home or head to emergency shelters immediately yesterday, as authorities warned of the storm’s potential to uproot buildings and cause mass destruction.

French authorities have seized a “priceless” haul of over 27,000 archaeological artefacts ranging from Bronze Age bracelets to Roman coins that had been secretly amassed by a single person in the east of the country, customs said yesterday.

Customs officials arrested a passenger with 130 gold bars weighing 15kg at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Tuesday night.

Several European countries tightened restrictions yesterday, as Germany set a record for daily deaths and the United States broke its own daily high for infection numbers.

The Department of Narcotics Control handed over a list of 49 clandestine labs in Myanmar to that country’s Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), hoping that they would take stern actions to stop yaba smuggling into Bangladesh.

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world’s biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted charge sheet before court against 14 persons in a case filed over gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila.