BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who tested negative for novel coronavirus 20 days ago, has caught fever.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has agreed to launch an international investigation into alleged crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

Law enforcers arrested three more Hefajat-e-Islam men from different places in Brahmanbria in 24 hours till yesterday morning in cases filed over vandalism and arson attacks during protests over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh in late March.

The US government is “rapidly” formulating plans to evacuate potentially thousands of interpreters who worked for coalition forces in Afghanistan over the past two decades to protect their safety, a top general said.

Two officers in the US state of Washington were charged with the murder of a Black man who died in police custody as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, and a third was charged with manslaughter, prosecutors said Thursday.

National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary was celebrated worldwide on May 25, with tributes pouring in from individuals, organisations and corporates alike.

The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted yesterday, a day after tens of thousands of residents fled after warnings that the nearby Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again.

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million yesterday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and a vaccine shortage across the region.

Eleven days after their arrest by CBI in Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft, senior West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee were granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought financial and technical support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to produce Covid-19 vaccines and other lifesaving medicines.

A 26-year-old Tripura youth, who was arrested on May 16 in a case filed under the pornography act, was found dead inside the Khagrachhari district jail early yesterday.

Bangladesh yesterday reported 1,358 new Covid-19 cases, while the coronavirus claimed 31 more lives.

The Halda river, the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia, has seen a poor yield of eggs mainly due to heavy salinity in the river water this year.

China hit out at the “dark history” of the US intelligence community yesterday, after President Joe Biden ordered a probe into the Covid-19 origins which threatens to set the course for relations between world’s top economies.

In a letter dated May 28, 1971, American President Richard Nixon urged Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to continue to act with maximum restraint.

Thirty-one-year-old Mushfika Akter, a teacher at a renowned school in the capital, is currently in her eighth month of unplanned pregnancy.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated a “special mango train” on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route via Rajshahi in order to transport mangoes at lower cost.

The Police Headquarters yesterday transferred 50 officials, including 10 of the rank of additional superintendent of police, from Rapid Action Battalion to different units of police.

The National Board of Revenue has asked different banks to provide it with detailed financial information of former Rajshahi University vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan and four others of his family.

Police arrested Hefajat-e-Islam’s Hathazari municipality unit’s Assistant Dawah Secretary Aminul Islam and his associate Aftab Uddin Piayru in Chattogram’s Fatikchhari yesterday over the mayhem unleashed in the upazila on March 26.