Progressive Democratic Party Chairman Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi died yesterday at the age of 79.

Sudanese leaders and rebel commanders yesterday agreed on a historic peace deal, a crucial first step towards ending 17 years of conflict, an AFP correspondent said.

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Indian Border Security Force has returned the body of a Bangladeshi cattle trader, 15 days after shooting him dead in the Indian territory.

A Bangladeshi woman and her daughter were found dead in an apartment in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh of Kuwait on Friday.

Thousands of people in Satkhira’s Assasuni upazila are in search of shelter, food and drinking water as their homes have been inundated by tidal surges coupled with heavy rainfall.

The Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on UN members to boost the numbers of women peacekeepers, diplomats said, seeing the move as a way to improve the effectiveness and credibility of the missions.

French authorities were yesterday searching for ways to limit the spread of coronavirus without a new lockdown as the country reported 7,379 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday.

Rab yesterday took three accused in the Major Sinha murder case in custody for the second phase of the investigation for four days.

The government is going to reinstate the previous bus fare from September 1 and will carry passengers with full capacity, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

A total of 2,131 people tested positive for coronavirus yesterday whereas 11,689 samples were tested in 92 labs across the country.

Bangabandhu is likely to return home by September 3 though he has not yet fully recovered, informs BSS. T

Building on a new hanging garden trend, a greenhouse atop a Montreal warehouse growing eggplants and tomatoes to meet demand for locally sourced foods has set a record as the largest in the world.

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), is being observed across the country today with due religious solemnity.

Undocumented Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait are at risk of facing deportation, as authorities in the Gulf country have recently decided to launch drive against illegal foreign workers there.

Mali military rulers yesterday said they were postponing their first meeting over the transfer of powers due to “organisational reasons” nearly two weeks after ousting the president in a coup.

At least 10 people were arrested in southern Sweden and several police officers were injured in violence which broke out after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said yesterday.

The UN human rights office yesterday said that the images of the shooting of Black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin appeared to show that the police officer had used “excessive” force that was likely discriminatory in nature.

Police in Delhi were “complicit and an active participant” in the February violence in which 53 people, mostly Muslims, were killed, according to an investigation by Amnesty International India.

Goldman Sachs has paid Malaysia $2.5 billion as part of a settlement over the US investment bank’s role in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, officials said yesterday.