Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami, arrived in Dhaka through Tripura yesterday, three days after the former Indian envoy Riva Ganguly Das left for Delhi.

At least eight people have been arrested since Sunday in connection with rape incidents in five districts, while two others were sued yesterday over the rape of a girl.

Bangladeshi migrants working in Kuwait want the foreign minister and foreign secretary, who are visiting the Gulf country, to talk to the new emir about their challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic and the issue of workers’ visa cancellations in connection to the irregularities of MP Shahid Islam Papul.

Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman orders the army and the navy to rush to border areas to help the civil administration prevent smuggling.

Two Rohingyas were killed in a reported gunfight between two rival groups in a camps in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The Criminal Investigation Department will issue a Red Notice through Interpol by this week for Bangladeshi human traffickers thought to be responsible for the killing of 26 people of the country in Libya earlier this year.

Rescue services stepped up their search efforts in southwestern France yesterday after floods cut off several villages and killed two people in Italy, with eight still missing in France.

Bangladesh Truck-Covered Van Owners-Workers Coordination Council yesterday called a 48-hour strike across the country from October 12 to press home their nine-point demand, including amendment to the Road Transport Act.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday wrote to US President Donald Trump sending a message of sympathy after he and First Lady Melania Trump were diagnosed with Covid-19.

Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary election got underway yesterday with observers and smaller parties warning that vote buying could spoil a rare competitive election in former Soviet Central Asia.

The number of Covid-19 tests has decreased by 9.05 percent last week compared to the previous [38th] epidemiological week, said a press release from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

President Donald Trump’s condition is improving as he is being treated for Covid-19 at a military hospital, and he could return to the White House as early as today, the doctors leading his treatment said yesterday.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced two house helps to death in a case filed over the killing of former principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin in February last year.

A human skeleton has been recovered from a makeshift wall at a six-storey building in the capital’s Shewrapara area.

Two High Court judges have operated a bench on Saturday night and directed Dhanmondi police to immediately take necessary steps to ensure that two minor grandchildren of former attorney general KS Nabi can enter and live in his Dhanmondi residence in the capital.

The families of all six convicts, including Ayesha Siddika Minni, in the Rifat murder case are preparing to file appeals with the High Court against their death sentence, as a copy of the verdict and other documents reached the HC from a Barguna court yesterday.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has already been convicted of sex crimes in New York, was charged Friday in Los Angeles with six new counts over the alleged rapes of two women.

Deaths from the novel coronavirus in India passed 100,000 yesterday, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world’s second most populous country.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have busted a firearms-making factory in a remote hilly area of Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar and arrested two firearms makers in this connection.