The deposed Pakistani president Gen Yahya Khan has blamed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and several army generals including Gen Tikka Khan for the genocide and massacre in Bangladesh and the defeat of the Pakistani military adventure against India.

Sufferings of flood-hit people in the northern and north-eastern regions have intensified as rivers continued to swell.

The coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 565,000 people out of nearly 13 million registered cases worldwide, has been accelerating sharply since the start of July, according to a count carried out by AFP from official sources.

An abandoned oil tanker lying off Yemen’s coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board is deteriorating badly and could rupture at any time, with disastrous results for Red Sea marine life, UN and other experts warn.

Britain yesterday pledged £705 million ($890 million, 788 million euros) to prepare its borders for cutting ties with the European Union on December 31, amid concern within government that it is not ready.

An alleged Rohingya drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB members in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf early yesterday.

A group of unidentified criminals hacked a former activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to death in Ramgarh upazila of Khagrachhari.

A Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of China’s President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party was released yesterday after six days of detention, his friends said.

Mali’s embattled president announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt to calm the major civil unrest gripping the vulnerable African country, as more opposition leaders were arrested.

A seriously injured tigress was found dead near Andharmanik forest camp in the Sundarbans on Friday.

Three generations of Bollywood’s Bachchan family were hit by the coronavirus as former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter yesterday joined her father-in-law Amitabh and husband Abhishek in testing positive for the virus that causes Covid-19.

Senior career diplomat Vikram Doraiswami is likely to be India’s new High Commissioner to Bangladesh, succeeding Riva Ganguly Das.

Bangladeshis, willing to go abroad, must obtain coronavirus negative certificates from the government approved testing centres following due process, the government said yesterday.

Mandatory use of face masks and social distancing have kept the number of Covid-19 cases low in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila, compared to the district’s 12 other upazilas, local officials say.

Child marriage increased sharply in the country with 462 girls falling victim to such malpractices in June during the coronavirus pandemic, Manusher Jonno Foundation yesterday said in its monthly telesurvey report.

Egyptian police have seized kites from people flying them after a ban by a northern governorate for “safety” reasons and a lawmaker’s warning they posed a “national security threat”.

NAP Chief Maulana Bhashani says in an emotion-choked voice, “Mujib is the only hope of the nation. I love him. I pray nothing untoward may ever happen to him.”

The prime accused in a gang rape case was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Noakhali early yesterday.

Once again, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha when huge sales of sacrificial animals take place across the country, counterfeit note forgery syndicates have targeted the cattle markets like they do every year.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today attends his office at the secretariat after six days. Bangabandhu was suddenly taken ill with pain in the abdomen on July 5. He resumed his work at the Gono Bhaban, his official residence, on July 10.