Iranian police said yesterday they had arrested people behind protests that broke out last week in the southwest of the country, state news agency IRNA reported.

Pakistan resumed its polio vaccination campaign yesterday after a four-month pause due to the coronavirus outbreak, which health authorities feared would cause a surge in cases of the crippling disease.

Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, has pleaded “not guilty” to second-degree murder, reports CNN.

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died while dismantling an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard in 2018 can file a negligence claim against a British company involved in the vessel’s sale, London’s High Court ruled last week.

At least 14 prisoners have died from likely Covid-19 complications in scantly-monitored outbreaks of the disease at Egyptian detention centres, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

President Donald Trump assailed likely opponent Joe Biden as “not competent” to lead the country, speaking as polls over the weekend showed deepening voter disenchantment with his own handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday attended the namaz-e-janaza of his younger brother and freedom fighter Abdul Hye at his ancestral home in Kamlapur village of Kishoreganj’s Mithamoin.

A year has gone by but little Tasmin Mahira Tuba’s search for her mother is still far from over.

The deadly coronavirus is spreading out of control in Hong Kong with a record 100 new cases confirmed, the finance hub’s leader said yesterday as she tightened social distancing measures to tackle the sudden surge in infections.

As many as 56 relatives of a union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila have been allegedly enlisted for the government’s cash aid allocated to reduce the sufferings of poor people during Covid-19 pandemic.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said they were ready to strongly monitor the cattle market, but awareness among the people would be much more effective.

The government is going the start the online process for enrolling students to Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent courses for the next academic session from August 9, amid the pandemic.

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a British Muslim leader facing the death penalty in Bangladesh for alleged war crimes, is suing Home Secretary Priti Patel for £60,000 in libel damages.

As the number of Covid-19 tests across the country yesterday dropped to a record in recent times, about 54 percent respondents -- mostly doctors -- of a survey said people were not going for tests due to unavailability and inaccessibility of the testing facilities.

While Covid-19 cases continue to pile up in the districts as well as in cities, detection of Covid-19 has actually deteriorated in Pabna due to low testing since the first week of July.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s appearance on the scene ends a six-hour long blockade of Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Dr Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury and his colleagues by the students seeking auto-promotion.

Police yesterday arrested an imam in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for “making defamatory remarks against the prime minister and spreading anti-state propaganda on Facebook.”

Beijing’s ambassador to London has warned Britain against stationing a new aircraft carrier in the Pacific, arguing it would be a “very dangerous move” in a newspaper interview published yesterday.

Prof Abul Hossain Khan Chowdhury, former director of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), died with Covid-19 infection at Square Hospital in Dhaka around 10:15am yesterday.

Americans debated mask mandates and the reopening of schools during the coronavirus pandemic on Friday as state and local officials imposed conflicting orders and cases rose by more than 77,000 across the nation for the third day in a row.