Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said he was surprised to see the number of government officials who siphoned off money and sent the amounts to Toronto, Canada, outnumbering politicians.

The UN yesterday said a full-blown humanitarian crisis was unfolding in northern Ethiopia, where thousands of people each day are fleeing the conflict in the Tigray region.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the man who threatened to kill Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan during a Facebook live video on November 15.

Parliament yesterday passed a bill titled “The Air Transport (Montreal Convention 1999) Bill 2020” to pave the way for compensating the heirs to an air passenger’s properties $160,000 (Tk 1.4 crore) in case of their death.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Bangladesh would approach for resuming the Rohingya repatriation talks after the formation of a full new government in Myanmar.

Peru’s Congress on Monday chose legislator Francisco Sagasti as the Andean country’s caretaker president, in an attempt to defuse a sharp political crisis after angry protests and the departure of two presidents in the past week.

The Solomon Islands is planning to ban the use of Facebook for an indeterminate period after inflammatory critique of the government was aired on the social media platform, the Solomon Times reported.

As India’s capital battles its worst phase in the coronavirus pandemic, authorities drew up plans yesterday to reinstate some curbs, such as lockdowns of some markets, if necessary, although elsewhere in the nation new infections are falling.

A school in Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat suspended all rehearsals for cultural programmes for next month’s Victory Day celebrations after receiving a letter demanding a halt to such activities as Islam does not support it.

President-elect Joe Biden will focus on shaping his core White House team on Tuesday while outgoing President Donald Trump presses on with his increasingly tenuous legal fight to reverse his loss in the U.S. election.

A Kushtia court yesterday sentenced a Qawmi madrasa teacher to life term imprisonment for raping a class eight female student in the district’s Mirpur upazila early last month.

A series of special edition wristwatches, designed and commissioned by the High Commission of India in Dhaka, were unveiled yesterday to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A court on Monday directed police to investigate four cases against Pradeep Kumar Das, suspended officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, and some others.

As an executing authority managing the vast water resources of the riverine country, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has been handicapped ever since the government curtailed its autonomy.

The river routes between India and Bangladesh will be reopened from tomorrow after a lapse of seven years.

Independent MP Md Rezaul Karim Bablu yesterday in parliament said that feminists are to blame for the increase in rape incidents around the country, even resorting to comparing women to tamarinds in line with a religious cleric’s words in 2013.

Romzan Ali, project director of Akhaura-Laksham Double Line Project of Bangladesh Railway, has sent a clarification to a report run by The Daily Star on October 22 under the headline “Akhaura-Laksham expansion: Rail project PD to be removed over graft”.

European Union diplomats yesterday warned Britain that time was fast running out for a Brexit deal, and that it may already be too late to ratify one, as negotiators in Brussels began a last-ditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous exit at the end of December.

UN-led talks aimed at appointing an executive to help lead Libya out of a decade of conflict ended Sunday without discussing names, the world body said.

Kathalbari Ferry Ghat in Madaripur is being shifted to Banglabazar, 500 metres upstream of the Padma, for facilitating construction of the Padma Bridge and protecting the river bank.