The BNP has sought an explanation from the party’s standing committee member Mirza Abbas over his statement on the disappearance of the party leader M Ilias Ali.

India yesterday posted a global record for the number of coronavirus cases in a day, as US President Joe Biden hailed his government’s “stunning” vaccination drive.

The business as usual approach of the international community has encouraged Myanmar to flout the decisions of international mechanisms and continue mass atrocities on ethnic minorities with a greater sense of impunity, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.

Oman has decided to impose a ban on passengers coming from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in the wake of rising coronavirus cases.

Despite the “strict lockdown” that has been imposed by the government to contain coronavirus spread, the capital yesterday witnessed a significant rise in public and vehicular movement because of lax monitoring by the law enforcers.

Three Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were arrested in connection the cases filed over violence in 2013 and March this year, and four more, including three top Hefajat leaders, were placed on remand yesterday.

Indian authorities scrambled to shore up supplies of medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital, Delhi, yesterday as a fast-spreading second wave of coronavirus stretched medical infrastructure to breaking point, officials and doctors said.

Maulana Bhashani, president of the National Awami Party (NAP-Bhashani), said in a press statement that the examples of Chiang-ki-shek in China and Czar in Russia and British oppression in undivided India or zulum of Jalem Yazid at Karbala pale into insignificance before the latest example of atrocity perpetrated by Yahya’s army.

The European Commission yesterday announced tough draft rules on the use of artificial intelligence, including a ban on most surveillance, in an attempt to set global standards for a key technology dominated by China and the United States.

Germany’s defence ministry yesterday said it planned to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in early July, after the United States announced plans to pull out by September 11.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called communist Cuba’s new leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Tuesday to discuss strengthening the two countries’ “strategic partnership,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a message retweeted by its embassy in Havana.

The Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem has briefed UK’s all-party parliamentary group (APPG) about the inconvenience caused by UK’s travel ban that has put Bangladesh among those nations on its “red list”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday allocated Tk 10.50 crore for district deputy commissioners to provide assistance to the poor, distressed and insolvent people who were affected due to the ongoing lockdown.

Indonesia’s navy is searching for a missing submarine with 53 people on board that went missing yesterday and is seeking help from neighbouring Australia and Singapore in the hunt, the Indonesian military chief told Reuters.

A South Korean court yesterday dismissed a case brought by a handful of World War II sex slaves and their families against the Japanese government, saying Tokyo enjoyed “sovereign immunity” over the issue.

Scientists in Chile’s parched Atacama desert, the world’s driest, have discovered the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur that millions of years ago lived among lush greenery in what is now a moonscape of rock and sand.

A Khulna court yesterday sent a journalist arrested under the Digital Security Act to jail.

Flight operations on all seven domestic routes will resume today on a limited scale after a 16-day suspension.

The police officer who died following the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of president Donald Trump in January was killed by two strokes, the Washington city coroner ruled Monday.

A bomb was planted to target a police officer in Northern Ireland, a law enforcement spokesman said yesterday, as tensions remained high in the British province.