A mobile court closed a rice mill in Rangpur for illegally stocking 800 metric tonnes of paddy and fined the mill authorities Tk 2 lakh.

A woman died after being struck by lightning at Purba Sardarpara village in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila Wednesday afternoon.

The US government lifted restrictions Wednesday on air links to Cuba, one of the measures announced in May by President Joe Biden’s administration in a gesture of conciliation toward the Communist-run island.

Pakistan’s ousted prime minister and the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has warned that the country would descend into a civil war if elections were not announced.

Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was made captain of Bangladesh’s Test side for the third time and wicketkeeper-batter Liton Das was named his deputy following yesterday’s meeting between Bangladesh Cricket Board officials at the BCB headquarters in Mirpur.

A parliamentary body yesterday expressed resentment over the industries ministry’s “deliberate delay” in shutting down the tanners inside the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate,which are severely polluting the Dhaleshwari river.

Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday proposed alternatives to hiking gas and electricity prices and urged the government not to increase the tariffs.

Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on Wednesday, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars’ soured relationship.

Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said yesterday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Russian troops control about one-fifth of his country, including the annexed Crimean peninsula and territory in the east held by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.

The Election Commission yesterday cancelled the candidature of Awami League candidate Abdul Khaleque for Jhenidah municipality.

Bangladesh is missing out on a large labour market in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur stopped taking in any fresh Bangladeshi migrants over irregularities by recruiting agencies in 2018.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has wondered why Bangladeshi journalists don’t ask the US ambassador about the human rights situation and the state of democracy in his country.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Chittagong University unit yesterday locked the gate of the university and suspended the shuttle train and bus services to the campus, demanding arrest of locals who allegedly assaulted its two activists the night before.

All unauthorised private hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres will be shut down, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Four people were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday in two cases over hurling acid at three persons in Chattogram city and Rangunia upazila.

The BGB and Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) seized around 20kg gold in Jashore and Chattogram yesterday.

A youth was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend in Natore town yesterday afternoon.

A woman died after being hit by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation while she was crossing a road in the capital’s Mugda on Tuesday night.