Some Lebanese yesterday called for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country’s top Christian Maronite cleric said the cabinet should resign.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs has sought permission from West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee-led government to take back 2,680 people from the state stranded in Bangladesh since the Covid-19 lockdown began in March.

People whose houses have been damaged by floods are passing their days in extreme hardship amid insufficient government relief and support for their rehabilitation.

The UN Security Council meets today and considers Bangladesh’s candidature for membership of the United Nations.

Chinese entrants in the race to put autonomous vehicles on the road are bringing “robotaxis” online in hopes that a hired-car format can be the key to unlocking wide acceptance of the futuristic technology.

The chehlum of Latifur Rahman, the late chairman and managing director of Transcom Group, was held at his Gulshan home after Maghreb prayers yesterday.

France and Germany have quit talks on reforming the World Health Organization in frustration at attempts by the United States to lead the negotiations, despite its decision to leave the WHO, three officials told Reuters.

National award-winning music director and composer Alauddin Ali has been put on life support at a city hospital.

Police recovered two throat-slit bodies from a waterbody near Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail yesterday morning.

Divisions with higher populations are witnessing higher numbers of Covid-19 deaths.

Road communication in some districts has taken a hit as prolonged flooding has damaged a large portion of roads and bridges there.

Faced with the coronavirus collapse in travellers, Taiwanese airlines have begun offering sight-seeing “flights to nowhere” on their passenger jets -- including flight attendant lessons for children.

It is reported that Bangabandhu would decide within two days the date of his departure for convalescence in Switzerland in response to an invitation by the Swiss government.

The death toll from an Indian passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been seriously injured, a senior government official said yesterday.

At least 17 people were killed in four separate road accidents in Mymensingh, Chuadanga, Narayanganj and Manikganj between Friday night and yesterday afternoon.

A huge blast rocked a military base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu near a stadium yesterday, killing at least eight people and injuring 14, emergency workers said, and the militant group al Shabaab claimed responsiblity.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday launched her re-election campaign promising a “laser-like” focus on boosting jobs and economic growth hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed Europe on Friday to become the region with the most Covid-19 deaths.

Malaysia’s ex-finance minister, now a key opposition figure, was charged with corruption yesterday over a $1.5 billion construction project, the latest government critic to be targeted since a scandal-plagued party returned to power.

Online armies of self-styled Saudi patriots riding a wave of state-led nationalism attack critics and what they call “traitors” of the kingdom -- but their growing clout has left the government uneasy.