Information service officers under a government project were supposed to draw a monthly salary of Tk 27,100, according to the job circular and their appointment letters.

Two aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines collided at the hangar on Sunday, in a repeat of the incident in April that had left two Boeings grounded for months.

Veteran director Padma Shri Tarun Majumdar, known for making popular films based on finely-woven tales of human relationships in the lives of rural and urban middle-class families, passed away in a hospital in South Kolkata yesterday.

Police on Sunday night detained six people in Khurushkul of Cox’s Bazar in connection with the killing of a local Chhatra League leader.

Eight people were sent to jail yesterday for hacking a woman to death and injuring her husband, at Aikadia village in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur upazila around 11:00pm on Sunday.

China placed 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly 300 new cases yesterday in the latest of a string of outbreaks testing Beijing’s no-tolerance approach to Covid-19.

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her, the US State Department said yesterday.

Ukrainian forces were taking up new defensive lines in the east yesterday, preparing for a hard new phase in the war as President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s victory in the months-long battle of Luhansk.

Police on Sunday night arrested Nurunnabi, a key accused in the case filed over the harassment of the acting principal of Mirzapur Degree College in Narail, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to five. 

A college student was stabbed to death at her home in Sherpur’s Nakla upazila yesterday.

A 40-year-old madrasa teacher in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila was sent to jail yesterday for sexually abusing two 13-year-old residential students, said police. 

Several hundred protesters marched Sunday in Akron, Ohio after the release of body camera footage that showed police fatally shooting a Black man with several dozen rounds of bullets.

Six people were killed and about two dozen were injured in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park yesterday, officials said, as panicked spectators fled the scene.

Sitting in a roadside garage near what used to be her home, Nasima Begum, 70, was seen trying to salvage whatever was edible from paddy she had stored earlier.

Against the backdrop of multiple sensational crimes involving juveniles, the government decided to amend the children act and is considering whether to lower the age threshold that qualifies an individual as a juvenile.

The bodies of a 42-year-old woman and her son were found yesterday with slit throats in their home in Araihazar, Narayanganj.

Russia yesterday claimed to have captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk and the entire frontline Lugansk region which would mark a decisive breakthrough for Moscow’s forces seeking control of the country’s east. 

Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Shawkat Kabir of Narail Sadar Police Station was withdrawn and attached to the Khulna Reserve Range on Saturday night.

Amid widespread criticism for providing wrong information in parliament on changes made in textbooks, Jatiya Party MP Fakhrul Imam has admitted that the statement “was not correct in the current context”.

China’s foreign minister yesterday called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil.