Fourty-three Covid-19 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of reported casualties due to the virus to 4,802, said the health directorate yesterday.

The anonymous caller, who had threatened jail authorities of “snatching away militant inmates from jails”, might have used a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to make the call, police suspect.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must be given the right to participate in decisions affecting their lives and speak for themselves, Amnesty International said yesterday.

The director general-level talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), which were postponed earlier as the BSF delegation failed to reach Dhaka, will now take place between tomorrow and September 19.

Construction work of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the Jamuna river has finally started, more than three and a half years after the government approved the project.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman spends a busy day at Gono Bhaban today. He arrives at the Gono Bahaban at about 10:00am in the morning and stays till 8:00pm. The prime minister looks into files and also has talks with his cabinet colleagues.

Authorities experimentally operated a ferry through an alternative channel on Shimulia-Kathalbari route yesterday, a day after the service was suspended for an indefinite period due to navigability crisis.

The United States and Iran faced off at the UN’s top court yesterday in the latest round of a battle over sanctions on Tehran reimposed by President Donald Trump.

Following a feud over divorce, a man allegedly threw acid on his former wife and mother-in-law in Kushtia’s Bheramara on Sunday night, said police.

The High Court has rejected two separate bail petitions Kamal Uddin alias Haji Kamal, suspected leader of a human trafficking gang, in two cases filed over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh was keen to boost its relations with Turkey for mutual benefits as it was deeply rooted in shared history, faith and traditions based on trust and confidence.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to pay Tk 50 lakh as compensation to each family of the three teenage boys who were killed at Jashore Juvenile Correction Centre last month.

Europe will face a rising death toll from the coronavirus during the autumn months, the World Health Organization warned yesterday, as the number of daily infections around the world reached a record high.

Rab members arrested a police constable for his alleged involvement in Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case on Sunday night.

A local lawyer yesterday filed a case against eight policemen, including former Boalkhali Police Station OC Himangshu Das Rana, and three civilians over implicating him in four “false” cases and threatening to kill him in a “shootout” in 2018.

Renowned actor Sadek Bachchu passed away yesterday in the capital’s Universal Medical College Hospital.

Japan’s ruling party yesterday elected chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga as its new leader, making him all but certain to replace Shinzo Abe as the country’s next prime minister.

Mobilising thousands of troops in northern Rakhine has created fears of a fresh crackdown and subsequent Rohingya influx like the one that forced around 750,000 members of the ethnic group to flee to Bangladesh.

Authorities have suspended the ferry service on Shimulia-Kathalbari route sine die due to poor navigability, causing immense suffering to passengers.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman meets members of his Cabinet informally at the Gono Bhaban today.