A female doctor, who set herself on fire following a family feud on Friday, died at a city hospital yesterday.

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee is going to be held today to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.

Scotland’s government on Tuesday drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023. 

Greek coastguards said yesterday 172 migrants had been picked up from a wooden fishing vessel that was struggling in heavy seas as it sought to reach Italy.

Iran warned the US to abandon the “Trump method” yesterday after the two sides opened indirect talks to revive a nuclear deal that was torpedoed by the former American president.

A Khulna court yesterday placed a youth on a two-day remand for allegedly hurting religious sentiment and inciting public anger.

A woman was burned to death allegedly by her neighbours after her son eloped with their daughter.

As the country logged 2,241 new Covid cases yesterday, the highest daily infections in more than four months, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said he was worried but not panicked by the upward trend of infections.

The High Court yesterday stayed for six months a Nilphamari tribunal’s order that acquitted an accused in a rape case filed by a 15-year-old victim.

City dwellers are suffering as vegetable prices at kitchen markets across the capital have doubled in the fallout from the worst flood in the country since 2004.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian early yesterday during clashes in the hotspot town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. 

As Covid-19 cases are rising steeply in the country, the Cabinet Division yesterday instructed all officials concerned to enforce the “no mask, no service” policy everywhere and ensure that everyone follows health safety rules.

Around 3:00am last Wednesday, one family was seen hard at work making 400 bags of relief to be taken for distribution the next morning.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday sought apology and compensation from those who shamed Bangladesh, accusing some top officials of a conspiracy of corruption in the Padma Bridge project.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to form a commission in 30 days in order to identify those who made up stories about corruption involving the Padma Bridge project.

Police filed a case accusing 170 to 180 people on charges of forcing acting principal of Mirzapur United College to wear a garland of shoes around his neck, setting a motorcycle on fire, and barring government work in the area.

Armed robbers raided one of the world’s leading art fairs in the Dutch city of Maastricht yesterday, police said, with video showing them smashing a display case using a sledgehammer.  

Nasa blasted a nanosatellite barely bigger than a microwave oven into outer space yesterday, part of a landmark mission to return humans to the Moon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said he would meet US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Madrid for talks on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

The High Court yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to examine whether Bangladesh Bank breached the rules by allowing an alleged money launderer to reschedule a defaulted loan of Tk 199 crore taken through forged documents.