Brazil became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic.

A fourth-grader was killed after rape in Rajshahi yesterday, while three teenage boys were arrested for raping another minor girl in Manikganj.

The elections to 204 union parishads and two municipalities and by-polls to the Laxmipur-2 constituency are going to be held today amid coronavirus fears.

The governments of South Asian countries including Bangladesh have failed to play their roles in controlling the spread of the coronavirus and come up with sustainable and effective recovery solutions to the pandemic-induced crisis.

An official of Noakhali Science and Technology University was detained yesterday for making derogatory comment about ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Facebook.

Though they didn’t use dormitory and transport facilities for around a year and half, Dhaka University students will have to pay for those.

The Sunday Times (London) alleged that the professional classes in Bangladesh were being eliminated in a new campaign of terror.

Trail-blazing space reproduction research that yielded healthy baby mice produced using freeze-dried sperm stored for years in orbit is showing the possibilities of procreation beyond Earth, with future implications for humans exploring the cosmos.

Surobala Das, 60, a landless single mother of three from Brahmanbaria cannot believe her luck.

Supporters of Myanmar’s detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi wore flowers in their hair and paraded with them at street demonstrations yesterday as she marked her 76th birthday locked up by the generals who overthrew her.

An extreme heat wave that has already shattered temperature records across the US Southwest threatened on Friday to push power systems to the brink of failure as residents cranked up air conditioners.

A fugitive was seen at the inauguration of a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Munshiganj where the Liberation War affairs minister, two MPs, a deputy commissioner were also present.

The hearsay of young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan hiding in one of his friend’s house in Gaibandha created confusion.

A 55-year-old man was shot dead in a remote village in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, on Friday night.

With most of its previous decisions unimplemented, a taskforce, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, is going to sit for its third meeting today.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been peering into the universe for more than 30 years, has been down for the past few days, NASA said Friday.

At least 13 Bangladeshi migrants have been missing since a boat capsized with them off the coast of Tunisia almost a month ago.

A former Japanese justice minister received a three-year jail term yesterday for vote-buying in an attempt to get his wife elected to a national office, local media said.

One person was killed and a dozen injured in a drive-by shooting spree Thursday as a gunman roamed the streets in the southwestern US state of Arizona, police said.

The International Labour Conference has adopted a resolution with a global call for inoculating all workers against Covid-19 to revitalise the world economy.