The government could not control rice price although it had the highest ever rice stock and record production of Aush, Aman and Boro varieties, said Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque.

There is no possibility of expansion of the US sanctions against Rab either in the US or elsewhere, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Officials at Chattogram passport office yesterday handed a Rohingya man to police for attempting to get a Bangladeshi passport.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent a man to jail in a case filed over the gang rape of woman after Rab arrested him the capital.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to law professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman Karzon of Dhaka University for eight weeks in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Businessman Abu Mohasin Khan who died by suicide in his Dhanmondi apartment on Wednesday night left a note saying that he was swindled out of Tk 5.1 crore by several individuals, said police.

At least 10 miners died in Afghanistan after being trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed in the northern province of Baghlan, an official said yesterday.

United Hospital’s Cancer Center organised a meetup with doctors, technologists, nurses as well as those associated with the centre yesterday, marking World Cancer Day.

Advocate Gazi Saidul Haque, founder president and current adviser of Senior Citizens Welfare Organization located at Sector-4, Uttara, passed away on January 30 at United Hospital, Dhaka.

Prof Maulana Muhammad Salahuddin, khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, died at a city hospital yesterday afternoon. He was 78.

Myanmar’s shadow government, set up after last year’s military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.

Two indigenous people were killed and another suffered burn injuries in Langri Para of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila early yesterday.   

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on Tuesday announced he was giving up a degree he earned in 1999 after being hit with accusations of plagiarism.

Nato leaders pursued diplomatic efforts on the Ukraine crisis yesterday after President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to draw Russia into a war but left the door open to further talks.

In January 1952, I was the vice-president of the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League. After Nazimuddin’s speech at Paltan Maidan (January 27, 1952),

A Norway court on Tuesday rejected a request for parole from neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik 10 years after he was convicted of killing 77 people in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.

Ankara yesterday accused Greece of allowing 12 migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes and then pushing them back across the Turkish border.

Three people were killed as a private car rammed into the wheels of a moving train at a level crossing in Dinajpur’s Birampur upazila yesterday morning.

A faction of the country’s petrol pump owners yesterday threatened to go on strike from February 17 across the country if the government does not increase their commission.