Bangladesh court asks media and everyone else to act ‘responsibly’, Rozina’s lawyer says 
The court has ordered everyone to act “responsibly” while granting bail to Prothom Alo’s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam in a case filed under the antiquated Official Secrets Act on charges of “stealing” government documents.
Published on May 23 2021  

Israel and Hamas both claim victory as ceasefire holds
Israel and Hamas both claimed victory on Friday after their forces ended 11 days of fighting, but humanitarian officials warned that the damage to Gaza would take years to rebuild.
Published on May 22 2021  

Three die as car crashes into parked truck in Brahmanbaria
At least three people have died in a road accident after a car veered out of control and crashed into a parked truck in Brahmanbaria.
Published on May 20 2021  

Kuwait ends requiring quarantine for incoming vaccinated travellers
Kuwait's cabinet said on Tuesday that direct commercial flights for India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are limited to departing flights only, while cargo flights will continue, until further notice, the cabinet wrote on Twitter.
Published on May 19 2021  

Free at last to hug and party: UK reopens for business
Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month COVID-19 lockdown.
Published on May 17 2021  

Afghans risk travel for Eid amid fragile cease-fire
On Saturday, the final day of a three-day national cease-fire for Eid al-Fitr, the three-day Muslim celebration marking the end of fasting after the holy month of Ramadan, the killings in Afghanistan kept coming.
Published on May 16 2021  

Death of sergeant: RAB arrests hit-and-run microbus driver, owner
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested the owner and the driver of a microbus that was involved in an accident that left two dead, including a RAB sergeant, in Gazipur.
Published on May 15 2021  

Mosques disappear as China strives to ‘build a beautiful Xinjiang’
The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site.
Published on May 14 2021  

PBI says Babul paid wife’s killers ‘several times’ as murder case unravels
The Police Bureau of Investigation says that former SP Babul Akter paid off the killers of his wife Mahmuda Akter Mitu several times, with one of the payments amounting to Tk 300,000.
Published on May 13 2021  

Myanmar protesters decry arrests, beatings as junta fights for control
Myanmar security forces fired shots and arrested about 30 people at an anti-coup rally in the country's second-biggest city on Wednesday, witnesses said, as protesters kept defying a months-long crackdown by a junta struggling to impose order.
Published on May 13 2021  

Babul Akter brought to court over wife’s murder
A Chattogram court has given police five days to interrogate SP Babul Akter in their custody over his alleged links to the murder of his wife Mahmuda Akter Mitu five years ago.
Published on May 12 2021  

Pandemic takes long-haul buses off the roads. So what?
Long-haul bus services have been suspended due to the pandemic, but that has not dissuaded some people from travelling home for the Eid holidays. A tide of Eid returnees set out for various destinations from Dhaka’s Gabtali on Wednesday morning.
Published on May 12 2021  

Chaos unfolds as Bangladeshis travel homeward in pandemic
Large crowds of Eid returnees are still flocking to the Shimulia port despite the strict measures in place to curb transmission of the coronavirus.
Published on May 11 2021  

Kuwait suspends travel from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Kuwait has suspended flights, and barred entry to travellers, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka until further notice, state news agency KUNA said on Monday, to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Published on May 10 2021  

Suicide bombing by Somalia's al Shabaab group kills six
A suicide bomber killed six police officers in front of a district police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Sunday, police said, in an attack claimed by the al Shabaab Islamist group.
Published on May 10 2021  

Eid returnees crowd Shimulia despite ferry suspension
Despite the suspension on daytime ferries and the deployment of BGB troops, the crowds of people hoping to make their way home for Eid are still swelling at Shimulia, a river port.
Published on May 09 2021  

Three months after coup, Myanmar returns to the ‘bad old days’
Every night at 8, the stern-faced newscaster on Myanmar military TV announces the day’s hunted. The mug shots of those charged with political crimes appear on-screen. Among them are doctors, students, beauty queens, actors, reporters, even a pair of makeup bloggers.
Published on May 07 2021  

Bangladesh is faring better than Pakistan in tackling Islamist extremism: EFSAS
An EU-accredited non-profit think tank has lauded Sheikh Hasina government’s “robust” handling of terrorism and religious extremism in Bangladesh while ripping into Pakistan, saying its Muslim-majority neighbour has "encouraged, sheltered and promoted extremists and terrorists".
Published on Apr 28 2021  

US military begins final withdrawal from Afghanistan
The US military has begun its complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, the top US commander there said Sunday, marking what amounts to the beginning of the end of the United States’ nearly 20-year-old war in the country.
Published on Apr 26 2021