US-Israeli strikes killed on Monday the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Guards said. “Major General Majid Khademi, the powerful and educated head of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred in the criminal terrorist attack by the American-Zionist enemy… at dawn today,” said the Guards in a post on their Telegram channel.

The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) of the newly formed BNP government was held today. The meeting was held at the Cabinet Division conference room in the Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair, said sources at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

A Japanese shipping firm said on Monday that an Indian-flagged tanker owned by its subsidiary had passed through the Strait of Hormuz and was en route to the South Asian country. Iran has effectively closed the strait — a critical route for global crude oil and gas — in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that began on 28 February. The near ...

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Monday (6 April). The meeting took place at the Prime Minister’s Office at the Bangladesh Secretariat, according to a statement issued by the PMO. They discussed bilateral engagement with focus on people-centric cooperation in multiple domains aligned with the national development priorities of ...

Iran launched fresh attacks across the Middle East on Monday and threatened “devastating” retaliation, after US President Donald Trump’s expletive-laced warning that Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reported a barrage of missile and drone strikes early Monday. The attacks came as Tehran ramped up rhetoric against Trump, with Tehran’s central military ...

After raising prices in four successive rounds, the Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) has finally decided to reduce gold prices in the domestic market. The organisation has lowered the price of 22-carat gold by Tk2,158 per bhori, setting the new rate at Tk245,819. The revised prices came into effect from 10:00am. BAJUS disclosed the decision in a statement issued on Monday ...

Israeli firefighters were searching for two missing people in the rubble of a residential building in the northern city of Haifa after it was struck by an Iranian missile that killed two others, authorities said Monday. The direct hit on a seven-storey building tore through sections of the structure which has partially collapsed, the military and rescue services said. AFP ...

Leeds United keeper Lucas Perri was ​their shootout hero as they edged hosts West Ham United 4-2 on penalties on Sunday to reach the ‌FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1987 after surrendering a commanding 2-0 lead in a dramatic finale. West Ham scored twice within four minutes in second-half stoppage time to wipe out Leeds’ comfortable advantage ...

Vietnam’s parliament convened on Monday for a new session in which it will confirm top state leaders including the president and prime minister, posts already selected by the ruling Communist Party but not yet announced. Vietnam’s 500-seat National Assembly serves mainly to ratify decisions made by the ruling party, although it occasionally amends proposed legislation. Its members were elected last ...

Thousands of hectares of boro paddy in Sunamganj’s haor areas are under threat as severe waterlogging triggered by unusually heavy upstream rainfall continues to inundate croplands across the district. The situation has turned critical since the last week of March when excessive rainfall in upstream catchment areas caused rivers to swell and overflow, sending water rushing into the low-lying haors. ...