Bangladesh Bank’s fact-finding committee has asked two former deputy governors to give their versions on the financial irregularities at a non-bank financial institution (NBFI).

A Nigerian police inspector has killed five civilians and injured four in a shooting rampage, police said yesterday, in the latest violence in the country’s restive southeast.

Israel said Sunday it will allow the “limited export” of farm produce from Gaza, one month after a ceasefire with the enclave’s Hamas rulers to end an 11-day conflict.

Syrian government shelling on the rebel-controlled enclave of Idlib yesterday killed at least nine people, including four civilians, a war monitor reported.

Ethiopians yesterday began voting in a closely-watched election taking place as famine grips the war-torn Tigray region and doubts linger about the credibility of the twice-delayed vote.

German federal prosecutors said yesterday they had arrested a Russian scientist accused of passing sensitive information from a German university to Moscow in return for cash.

Police yesterday arrested former Hefajat-e Islam leader Nasir Uddin Munir in Chattogram’s Hathazari over the organisation’s mayhem at Hathazari on March 26.

Malaysian immigration department arrested 309 undocumented migrants, including 102 Bangladeshis, during an operation carried out at a settlement near a construction site in Dengkil early yesterday.

A Sunamganj court yesterday granted bail to the prime accused in cases filed in connection with the attack on Hindu houses in Naogaon village of the district’s Shalla upazila on March 17.

India opened up free vaccinations to all adults in an attempt to bolster its inoculation drive yesterday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off a muted International Yoga Day hailing the practice’s “protective” properties against the coronavirus.

A policeman died at a hospital in Jhenaidah yesterday, three days after he had tested positive for Covid-19.

A massive reform is needed in the bureaucracy to modernise it as the bureaucrats still follow many age-old rules that have become irrelevant, Planning Minister MA Mannan said yesterday.

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday expressed extreme disappointment over the absence of DGHS Director General ABM Khurshid Alam in its meeting.

A few months after she was trafficked to India and forced into sex work, 18-year-old Sania, not her real name, found out that she was pregnant.

Delegates of western industrial powers and Japan today postponed discussion of fresh aid for Pakistan until a political settlement of the conflict between East and West Pakistan is in sight.

The proposed budget of fiscal 2021-22 failed to reflect the country’s recently-adopted stance of shifting from coal to renewable energy, raising questions on the government’s commitment to clean power generation.

India is boosting its production of Covid-19 vaccine, but there is no word yet when it can resume its export of the jabs to Bangladesh, the country’s high commissioner to Bangladesh said yesterday.

The Bangladesh Water Development Board yesterday forecast a possible flood due to the swelling of the Teesta caused by heavy rainfall in upstream India.

Bangladesh has abstained from voting a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and their repatriation from Bangladesh.

Having gotten used to a hand-to-mouth existence, and at times even worse, Birangona Shila Guha could never imagine that she would have her own a house with running water and electricity.