Two elephants were being led to safety by locals yesterday after crossing from Myanmar to Bangladesh, getting stranded on a beach and nearly dying at sea.

The administration of the Sinopharm vaccine begins today in all district hospitals and 40 centres across the capital, health officials said.

Tried as an adult when she was just a fifth-grade student, Piara Akhter spent the last 24 years of her life in jail for a murder she says she did not commit.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia must confess her wrongdoings and offer apologies to the President to go abroad for receiving treatment, said Law Minister Anisul Haq in the Parliament yesterday.

US President Joe Biden will visit the site of a deadly apartment building collapse in southern Florida later this week, the White House announced Tuesday, as rescuers scoured the wreckage in an increasingly desperate search for survivors.

The High Court is expected to start its hearing soon on the death reference and appeals of the Holey Artisan attack case, as the case paper book has already been prepared by the office concerned of the court.

Sami lost his father a year ago.

Migrant workers employed by a Malaysian palm oil giant have faced mistreatment ranging from physical abuse to poor living conditions, a rights group said yesterday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday held its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries’ key infrastructure -- an issue US President Joe Biden recently raised with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to remove statues honoring those who upheld slavery or backed the Confederacy from the Capitol building, which displays statues selected by all 50 states.

Detectives arrested an imam for his alleged involvement in the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Mohammad Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat.

Seven out of 22 houses built for homeless people under the Ashroyon project-2 have partially collapsed following moderate rainfall in Koyerkhali area of Bogura’s Sherpur upazila four days ago.

A fire on Sunday burnt the residential camps of around 300 Bangladeshi migrants in Greece, forcing them to take shelter in others’ camps.

A mobile court on Monday fined a person Tk 50,000 for violating the government’s health safety guidelines by carrying a bride in a helicopter in Shariapur.

More than three billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been given across the world, an AFP tally from official sources revealed yesterday, as the highly infectious Delta strain continued to cause mayhem around the world.

Militants are not capable of carrying out any major subversive attack in the country at this moment, Rab Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has said.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead by the members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the bordering area of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said law profession has now become a business.

The procession to Baduria’s cremation landing with the bodies of refugees from Bangladesh was endless, reported Washington Star.

Two days after an explosion in a building in the capital’s Moghbazar, another body was recovered from the debris yesterday, raising the death toll to eight.