Pakistan accused arch-rival India of funding a long running disinformation campaign against it on Friday and said it would raise the matter in global forums.

Johns Hopkins, the celebrated philanthropist who supported the abolition of slavery and whose wealth allowed him to found the prestigious US university that bears his name, owned slaves, the Baltimore-based institution confirmed Friday.

Separatist officials in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday said that three fighters were wounded in a skirmish with Azerbaijani forces, undermining a recent peace deal brokered by Russia.

An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned Morocco’s normalisation of ties with the Islamic republic’s arch foe Israel, calling it a “betrayal of Islam”.

The US green lighted the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine late Friday, paving the way for millions of vulnerable people to receive their shots in the world’s hardest-hit country.

Rupali Chowdhury took Berger Paints Bangladesh to new heights after taking the helm of the paint manufacturing company in 2008.

Members of the Mro community yesterday demanded that the construction of a five-star hotel and amusement park in the Chimbuk Naitong hills be stopped, saying that the project was destroying the ecological balance and risking indigenous life in the area.

Saidul Bashar, a seven-pound baby boy became the first child to be born in Bhasan Char.

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) honoured six of its freedom fighter trustees at a programme on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Thursday, says a press release.

EU leaders yesterday agreed an ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions after unlocking the bloc’s landmark budget and coronavirus recovery fund at a marathon summit.

A 30-year-old woman suffered serious burn injuries after her husband set her on fire in Croke area of Barguna town Thursday evening, said police.

A local Awami League leader was hacked to death by his rivals in Pabna’s Anonto Bazar area yesterday evening over protesting collection of extortion money.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has to play an adequate role in preventing human rights violations in the country.

The visiting four-member Egyptian trade delegation today calls on Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the secretariat.

South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, a controve-rsial figure both for his work and in his personal life, died in Latvia from coronavirus complications yesterday, a Latvian film official said.

The government move to relocate 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char has invited some negative international scrutiny, but local NGOs and experts have said international aid agencies might change their minds if they visited the island.

The outgoing US point man on North Korea admitted yesterday that the Trump administration had not achieved what it sought with Kim Jong Un, but blamed Pyongyang for squandering the opportunity for progress.

YouTube on Wednesday banned new videos with bogus claims of election fraud, saying enough states have certified Joe Biden as the next US president to make it official.

People on both banks of the Padma gathered yesterday morning to witness the auspicious event of the installation of the last span of the Padma bridge.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for regional development and cooperation, reaffirming that Bangladesh follows its policy -- “Friendship to all, malice to none”.