Today is the 45th death anniversary of eminent journalist Abdus Salam, former editor of the now-defunct English daily The Bangladesh Observer. On the occasion,

The newly-appointed US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter D Haas has said he looks forward to working with Dhaka to further advance the relationship between the two countries, he said at an interaction session with the officers of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on Friday.

Locals killed a rare palm civet that entered a locality in Habiganj’r Chunarughat upazila yesterday afternoon.

French counter-terrorism forces based in west Africa killed ten suspected jihadists accused of involvement in a massacre of police officers in Burkina Faso last November, the French military announced on Thursday.

South Sudan risks a return to war, the United Nations warned yesterday, with outbreaks of interethnic violence and political infighting threatening to undo even the limited progress made in implementing its lumbering peace process.

Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) authorities yesterday suspended a staffer over stealing government medicine from the hospital.

Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim, a judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as chairperson of Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee (SCLAC).

Russia is now massing yet more troops near Ukraine and an invasion could come at any time, perhaps before the end of this month’s Winter Olympics, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday.

Akhter Hussain, founder and chairman of Rangs Group of Companies, breathed his last yesterday.

In their forensic report, police found no evidence of Rasraj’s involvement in spreading a photograph that led to a mayhem in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar in October 2016.

The National Central Bureau at the police headquarters has asked CID to investigate whether Harris Chowdhury, former BNP leader and fugitive convict in the August 21 grenade attack case, is dead.

The preparation for strike on February 21, 1952 was going on for several days. Every day, I went to girls’ schools, particularly Kamrunnesa, Banglabazar and Muslim Girls School, to organise them.

Bangladesh has ranked 75th on the latest democracy index of the Economist Intelligence Unit, one notch up from last year.

Five UN human rights experts have expressed deep concern at the failure of the Bangladeshi authorities to complete an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice 10 years after the murder of journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

A university student has alleged that she got rape threats from cops after she went to Rajbari Sadar Police Station looking for her husband, who was detained there for questioning over a murder.

Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the UN refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said yesterday.

Cameroon committed “serious human rights violations” against dozens of its citizens after the US deported them back to the Central African country in breach of international refugee law, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

A New York prosecutor said Thursday that his team was prosecuting its highest number of anti-Asian hate crimes since a unit was established more than a decade ago.

Both sides of the Dhaka-Chattogram highway below the Mayor Hanif flyover in the capital’s Jatrabari is seen gridlocked yesterday.

A contempt of court petition was filed with the High Court yesterday against Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda for not registering Ganasamhati Andolon as a political party in around three years after the HC has directed to do so.