China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars yesterday in its first independent mission to another planet, a bid for global leadership in space and a display of its technological prowess and ambition.

An alleged serial rapist was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Bayezid Bostami area of Chattogram city early yesterday.

India has for the first time sent cargo from Kolkata to Tripura and Assam using Bangladesh’s Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria.

The three-member medical board under the leadership of Professor Nurul Islam, personal physician to the prime minister, examines Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today.

The health ministry is planning to provide accommodation for doctors, health workers and staffers involved in treating Covid-19 patients at government installations instead of private hotels.

Arif Motahar, the founding chairman of Hotel Regency, was recently diagnosed with Covid-19 though he has not left his hotel for the last two months.

On Monday morning, police constable Atikur Rahman single-handedly saved three boys from drowning in the Hoja river of Rajshahi’s Durgapur upazila.

Even two months after the cyclone Amphan, some six villages in Khulna’s Koyra upazila are still under three to four feet of water, preventing villagers from returning to their homes and livelihoods.

A giant meteor shower bombarded Earth and the Moon 800 million years ago with more than 30 times the force of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs, new research showed Tuesday.

French claims about the imprisonment of ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region were unacceptable, Beijing said yesterday, criticising the accusations as “false”.

Forty-two people died in the country from novel coronavirus in 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, said Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to protect the local species of fish from extinction by using advanced and modern fish farming methods.

Three suspects were killed in what law enforcers said were gunfights in the capital, Cox’s bazar and Bogura early yesterday.

Beijing yesterday reacted strongly after Washington abruptly ordered China to close its consulate in Houston and accused it of ramping up spying operations, dramatically escalating diplomatic tensions between the feuding superpowers.

Police yesterday found JKG Health Care documents which showed that Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury was the convener of the organisation and not its chairman.

A Malaysian high court yesterday spared 27 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar from caning , their lawyer said, setting aside a lower court’s sentence following an outcry from human rights activists.

Flood water has triggered erosion in some places, while fresh areas have been inundated in few regions intensifying public sufferings.

A medical investigation reveals that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been suffering from a stone in the gallbladder, according to a health bulletin issued today by the personal physician of the prime minister.

European leaders yesterday agreed a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies, as US President Donald Trump finally came out in favour of face masks as a tool against the coronavirus.

A suspected rapist of a schoolgirl was killed in a “gunfight’ between Rab and a “drug-peddling gang” in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila early yesterday.