A 103-year-old Swedish woman on Sunday set the world record for the oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump, saying she planned to celebrate “with a little cake”.

Nepal authorities yesterday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused “Zionists” of assassinating a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, the Guards’ official website reported.

Around 100 people have died in clashes between gold miners in northern Chad, Defence Minister General Daoud Yaya Brahim said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden said yesterday he would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could hit targets well inside Russian territory, despite urgent requests from Kyiv for long-range weapons.

At least 10 people were injured when two groups of ruling Awami League activists clashed over taking control of an illegal sand quarry in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila on Sunday night.

A Joypurhat court sent a private tutor to jail yesterday on charge of raping his student in Akkelpur upazila.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee in Beijing, state media said yesterday, telling the former security chief that he has the full trust of the central government.

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored an order to stay at home and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation.

Dhaka has sought Delhi’s suggestions on how to purchase energy and wheat from Russia.

One of the two constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, who had gone missing in the Netherlands during an official training, contacted his family and said that he would not return home.

The bridge over the Padma river, the country’s longest, will be named “Padma Bridge”.

There is no scope for using muscle power during voting if Electronic Voting Machines are used, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said yesterday.

Thirty-two leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were accused in a case of attacking Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists in the High Court area on Thursday.

Nepali rescuers called off their hunt for a missing passenger plane with 22 people on board late yesterday, planning to resume search operations at first light.

Police detained seven Rohingyas, including three children, in Cox’s  Bazar’s Ukhia upazila on Saturday night for illegal entry into  Bangladesh from India.

BNP is observing the 41st death anniversary of its founder and former president Ziaur Rahman today.

Ukrainian forces endured heavy artillery barrages yesterday as they held off Russian attempts to capture Severodonetsk, the largest city Kyiv still controls in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said.

Ten people, including a nine-year-old, died and 25 others were seriously injured as a bus of Jamuna Line Transport crashed into a tree in Sanuhar area of Ujirpur, Barishal, in the early morning yesterday.

Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan president’s home yesterday as the government offered an olive branch to demonstrators demanding his resignation.