Police have arrested three more people in two cases filed over Wednesday’s attack on Hindu houses in Noagaon village of Sunamganj’s Shalla upazila.

On the morning of March 22, 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called on President Yahya Khan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was also present at the meeting.

Twenty-eight years have passed since the country first detected arsenic in water, but neither the extent nor the intensity of the chemical element was reduced, say experts.

International Farakka Committee (IFC), in a statement, recently expressed hope that during the Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh the two countries will, in light of mutual friendship, take effective steps for basin-wide management of common rivers by keeping them alive from their source to sea.

Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi yesterday said his country is interested in enhancing cooperation with Bangladesh to address regional challenges.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have admitted their forces caused a fire that killed 45 people at a migrant centre earlier this month, saying more than a dozen soldiers and officials face punishment.

French maritime authorities said they had rescued 72 migrants in the English Channel yesterday whose vessels ran into difficulties as they tried to reach the UK.

Police in Magura have detained three people for interrogation after panic spread in the local Hindu community following the distribution of letters inviting Hindus to Islam.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of the Awami League, has urged the party leaders, activists, and associate bodies to observe Mujib Borsho in a manner that benefits mass people.

Britain has hit a Covid-19 vaccination milestone with more than half of all adults having had at least one injection, health secretary Matt Hancock said, making it the world’s first major economy to achieve that level of innoculation.

Doctors and nurses in central Myanmar rallied in the streets donning hard hats and brandishing posters of Suu Kyi as security forces shot dead an anti-coup protester yesterday.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation.

France, Poland, Ukraine and parts of India introduced new lockdown measures yesterday to fight a surge in coronavirus infections, as the European Union threatened to block exports of AstraZeneca jabs in an escalating row over vaccines.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished his Pakistani arch-rival Imran Khan a “speedy recovery” from Covid-19 yesterday, in a new sign of a thaw between the neighbours.

Investigators have found that banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) was giving training to children in the guise of running a madrasa.

A teenage boy was sued over the rape of a minor girl in Jashore yesterday, while a man was arrested on charge of raping a mentally challenged girl in Noakhali.

Protesters returned to the streets across Myanmar yesterday, defying a junta-led campaign of fear as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again condemned the killing of demonstrators and arbitrary arrests there.

With marks of bullet wounds, the body of a Bangladeshi man was seen lying on the Indian side of the border near Juri upazila of Moulvibazar yesterday, said locals.

In an unscheduled meeting, Yahya today told Mujib and Tajuddin that Bhutto had been informed that the representatives of the Awami League and the government had reached an agreement on the formation of central cabinet and that Bhutto should be present for discussion on the interim constitutional instrument and cabinet formation.

Zaheda was rushed to a private clinic in Chandpur district’s Shahrasti upazila on May 24 last year.