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.

The High Court yesterday ordered the Directorate General of Drug Administration to pay Tk 15 lakh each to the families of 104 children who died after taking toxic paracetamol syrup in 1991 and 2009.

The energy regulator yesterday reduced the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by Tk 93 for every 12kg LPG cylinder.

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.

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.

The Kremlin yesterday accused Washington of “adding fuel to the fire” by planning to supply Kyiv with advanced missile systems, as Ukraine looked close to losing the key eastern city of Severodonetsk to Russian forces.

The High Court yesterday stayed the trial proceedings against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in three cases filed under the much-talked-about Digital Security Act.

Mitali Express, the third passenger train between Bangladesh and India, has started operations yesterday, after railways ministers of the two countries flagged it off virtually.

The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a report published yesterday.

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.