Eid holidaymakers heading for south-western and northern districts endured sufferings yesterday due to suspension of ferry services on a major route and delays in some train schedules.

Greek police have launched a large-scale search for a 35-year-old British scientist who went missing on the Aegean island of Ikaria, officials said yesterday.

India assured Bangladesh of continued support for safe and speedy repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar last night.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab officials in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday.

Israel has advanced plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a surge of such approvals since US President Donald Trump took office, an NGO said yesterday.

Damascus and Russia resumed air strikes on Idlib in northwest Syria on Monday, a monitor said, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing the regime’s opponents of targeting a Russian air base.

Eleven people have drowned and dozens are missing after a barge sank on a river in central Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said yesterday.

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo yesterday warned that officials would be sacked if they failed to stamp out rampant forest fires that are belching out toxic smog over Malaysia and Singapore.

The High Court yesterday ordered four BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to surrender before a Dhaka court within six weeks in a case filed over issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The High Court yesterday deferred until tomorrow the hearing of Aysha Siddika Minni’s bail petition in the case filed over her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the government would replace the capital’s old gas pipelines with new ones.

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement yesterday. She was 88.

Dhaka University’s disciplinary board has suspended 69 students on charge of committing forgery during admission tests.

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said they launched air strikes early yesterday against an airbase in third city Misrata held by government loyalists.

Sushma Swaraj, former foreign minister of India and one of the BJP’s tallest leaders who was respected across party lines, is dead, Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences said yesterday evening.

The National Board of Revenue has withdrawn import duty, value-added tax, advance tax and advance income tax on dengue test kits, dengue test reagents and test kits for platelet and plasma.

Six-year-old Maliha and 11-year-old Raiyan were inseparable. The siblings would play like best friends. Maliha did not know of a world where Raiyan was not there for her.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has claimed that the rate of dengue infection has come down in the country.

Five men have been arrested on charges of raping a woman in Dhaka’s Savar, while two others have been accused of raping minors in separate incidents in Netrakona and Dhamrai.

A Libyan airliner has narrowly escaped being hit by incoming fire as it landed at war-torn capital Tripoli’s sole functioning airport, aviation officials said.