The Asian Games scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September have been postponed until 2023 because of the Covid-19 situation, the governing Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday.

The Kremlin yesterday said there will be no Victory Day celebrations in Ukraine’s Mariupol, a strategic port city that Russian troops claimed control of last month.

At least 10 peoplewere injured as Payra Bridge toll collectors and a local lawmaker’s relatives clashed at the toll plaza in Patuakhali on Thursday.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon at students trying to storm Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday as the country was brought to a halt by a trade union strike demanding the government step down.

The public administration ministry has reprimanded Senior Assistant Secretary Sarwoer Alam as a minor punishment for making a comment on Facebook after not being promoted to deputy secretary.

Three alleged Rohingya criminals of a gang were arrested in a camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf on Thursday night.

A Jhenidah court yesterday sent two youths to jail over raping a seventh-grader in Shailakupa upazila.

Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants of a rural part of the occupied West Bank in an area which Israel has designated for military exercises.

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, according to a preprint version of a large US study that counters assumptions in other studies that it was more transmissible but less severe.

Police yesterday arrested BM Jasim, union parishad chairman of Hayndgaon, and his son for beating up a former president of the union’s AL unit on Friday afternoon.

Seven points in the junction of Tentulia, Agunmukha and Buragauranga estuaries in Patuakhali are one of the breeding grounds of the indigenous pangas fry in the country. The points have been declared as sanctuaries for breeding and migration of the indigenous species of pangas.

Germany on Friday brought a case against Italy before the International Court of Justice on the grounds that Rome is continuing to claim World War II compensation, thereby “failing to respect its jurisdictional immunity”, the court said.

The coal production of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited has almost come to a halt as the workers continue to protest demanding their payment of eight months’ arrears.

A man who was picked up from his house in the capital’s Mirpur by men claiming to be law enforcers on April 19 was “shown arrested” by Rab-8 in Barisal yesterday.

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) could not pay arrears and benefits to all the laid-off government jute mill workers even after about two years.

Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer has a competitor.

As the two-month ban on hilsa fishing ended, firshermen yesterday started laying their nets onto rivers again, said Barishal’s Divisional Fisheries Office.

Alexanda Kotey, part of the Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles,” was sentenced to life in prison Friday, with relatives of victims addressing him and another member directly in the US court.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has repeated his warning that Pyongyang could “preemptively” use its nuclear weaponry to counter hostile forces, state media reported yesterday.

Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region yesterday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine’s military said, while Moscow said Western sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to Ukraine were impeding peace negotiations.