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.

A young man’s wrists were cut off by his neighbour’s relatives in Narsingdi’s Polash upazila yesterday.

Russia vowed yesterday its assault on Ukraine would continue until Kyiv surrenders, as world leaders warned that Moscow would pay for its aggression.

Water levels rose in some low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj due to heavy rain in the country’s northeastern region and water flowing in from the upstream of India’s Meghalaya yesterday.

Bangladesh Railway costs Tk 2.43 a kilometre for a passenger and earns Tk 0.62 only, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday told parliament.

Only 9.87 percent students passed in Dhaka University’s Kha Unit admission test for the academic session of 2021-22.

Two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, the regional governor said.

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to make contact in the “next few weeks,” a senior US official told reporters yesterday.

Floods in the north-eastern region are taking a heavy toll on education with at least 5,000 primary and secondary schools in 18 districts closed down.

On the second day of vehicles plying the Padma Bridge yesterday, the authorities beefed up surveillance to smooth out traffic.

The High Court has observed that those who opposed the Padma Bridge construction are  enemies of the state and the nation, and they must be identified.

A teacher who was beaten up with a cricket stump by a student two days ago died from injuries at a local hospital early yesterday.

Dhaka has requested London to take in at least one lakh of over 10 lakh Rohingyas who have fled genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and taken shelter in Bangladesh.

Twelve judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court have been infected with Covid-19, creating difficulties in running judicial functions.

Children’s substance abuse has increased exponentially in the ten years since 2012 -- an alarming development for the society.

Edible oil refiners have cut soybean oil prices up to Tk 6 a litre though the consumers rights organisation said the rates should have been reduced by at least Tk 30 amid falling prices of the item in the global market.

One man was left dead and three people were sent to hospital early yesterday in Montreal after stabbings by a 26-year-old who suffered a breakdown, Canadian police said.

A man was detained for removing nuts and bolts from the railing of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge yesterday.

A Dinajpur court yesterday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for raping a college girl 15 years ago.

Police recovered the body of a cattle trader at a banana orchard in Faridpur’s Sadar upazila yesterday.