Parbatya Chattogram Forest and Land Rights Protection Movement has demanded the authorities protect Sangu-Matamuhuri sanctuary and Sangu Reserve Natural Forest from destruction and take action against the destroyers.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday extended his warmest felicitations to Richard M Nixon on his re-election to the presidentship of the United States.

A man died hours after he was shot allegedly by Myanmar Border Guard Police in the Naf river of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.

Police arrested four people for allegedly raping and then mugging a woman in the port city’s Lalkhan Bazar area.

Myanmar voted in a general election yesterday seen as a referendum on a fledgling democratic government that remains popular at home but which has seen its reputation collapse overseas amid allegations of genocide.

Global coronavirus infections exceeded 50 million yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, with a second wave of the virus in the past 30 days accounting for a quarter of the total.

Several hundred students from various medical and dental colleges yesterday blocked the Shahbagh intersection in the capital for over two hours, demanding introduction of online classes and academic years free of session jam.

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to work more closely with US allies in confronting China on trade, and is seen as unlikely to roll back his predecessor’s tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, Chinese and European goods any time soon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the public representatives of local government bodies to stand beside people and work for their welfare with a service mentality.

Rab yesterday arrested three people, including two women, for allegedly forcing college girls to take part in pornographic clips in Joypurhat.

Police yesterday arrested four more suspects on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, in Patgram, Lalmonirhat.

Dhaka University would not arrange admission tests for “Gha” and “Cha” units under social science and fine arts faculties from the next academic year, decided the university’s Deans’ Committee primarily.

Eighteen more people died from Covid-19 in past 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services.

German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.

In the hilly terrain of Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila, right at the foot of the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, there is the grave of a visionary leader who dreamt of an independent Khasi state till his last day.

Rail communication between Sylhet and the rest of the country was suspended for hours yesterday after the derailment of a fuel oil-laden train in Sreemangal. Meanwhile, two people died after a train hit a bus in Gazipur.

Detectives yesterday arrested Abul Hossain alias Hossain Ali, who allegedly spread the rumour that Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel demeaned the Holy Quran, in the capital’s Kuril Bishwa Road area.

Over 3,000 Bangladeshi expatriate workers have been stranded at home for several months as they cannot fly to Kuwait to rejoin work due to suspension of air communications between the two countries amid the pandemic.

Ethiopian lawmakers yesterday voted to replace the current government of the federal state of Tigray, after the army launched air strikes to destroy military assets in the region in a worsening internal conflict.

A former Afghan television presenter and two other civilians were killed in a Kabul bombing yesterday, in an attack officials blamed on a group linked to the Taliban.