Indian and Chinese troops were engaged in a tense face off yesterday, barely a few hundred metres apart, in a remote Himalayan region where shots were fired for the first time in decades, Indian officials said.

At least 10 people, all women and children, drowned in the Gomai river as a trawler capsized after being hit by a sand-laden vessel in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila yesterday.

The confessions of two former Myanmar soldiers about their involvement in massacres, rape, and other crimes against Rohingyas and their transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) could be a turning point for justice for the Rohingyas, analysts said.

A Sri Lankan politician sentenced to death for murder was escorted out of prison on Tuesday to become the first convict to be sworn in as a member of parliament, to heckles from opposition MPs.

China’s leaders yesterday held a triumphant ceremony to celebrate beating the coronavirus, as billions of people around the world still suffer the fallout from the pandemic and the global death toll nears 900,000.

A total of 12.64 percent people tested positive for Covid-19 in the country in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday, which took the positivity rate to the lowest in the last four months.

Another doctor who was diagnosed with Covid-19 died at a city hospital yesterday.

China and India accused each other of firing shots first across a flashpoint Himalayan border, intensifying a months-long standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbours that has already claimed at least 20 lives.

The world situation in general and development in the Indian subcontinent in particular will be reviewed by Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at a summit at New Delhi on September 14.

The three-member body formed to investigate the vicious hammer attack on Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam is yet to start its investigation as police investigate the incident.

Rohingya leaders, who went on a “go-and-visit” to Bhashan Char housing project, said they were happy with the facilities there and that those were far better than their current living conditions in Teknaf and Ukhiya camps.

The Taliban’s negotiating team has arrived in Qatar, a spokesman said Saturday, in a sign that long-delayed peace talks with the Afghan government are inching closer to starting.

Rapid Action Battalion did not want to perform forensic and ballistic examination of seized equipment of Major (retd) Sinha as the investigation agency did not find anything anti state during the investigation.

Georgia yesterday launched large-scale joint military exercises with Nato forces as part of its longstanding bid to join the alliance, which has angered Tbilisi’s Soviet-era master Russia.

Police of Ghoraghat detained the domestic help of Wahida Khanam, UNO of Dinajpur’s Ghorahgat upazila, on Sunday night for interrogation, said police .

Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday discussed the possible joint production of a Russian coronavirus vaccine, the Kremlin said.

The probe committee conducting the inquiry into the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan submitted its report to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday, but the ministry is yet to make the committee’s findings public as another investigation, following a court order, is ongoing.

India overtook Brazil as the country with the second highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases yesterday, even as key metro train lines re-opened as part of efforts to boost the South Asian nation’s battered economy.

A Saudi court yesterday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in a final ruling that jailed eight defendants to between seven and 20 years, state media reported.

The government project to provide basic literacy to people aged 15 and above has failed to meet its target for the third consecutive year as more than 21 lakh people in the age group are still illiterate.