Lawmaker Haji Md Salim was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University yesterday, a day after he was sent to jail in a corruption case.

Russia has offered to sell crude oil to Bangladesh amid reducing demand from European countries.

Passenger train services between Bangladesh and India will resume on May 29 after a long break of more than two years due to the Covid pandemic.

Instructing all international airports and land ports to strengthen monkeypox screening, health officials yesterday asked those suffering from fever and rash to self-isolate and contact nearby public hospitals for tests. 

When the pandemic forced schools into remote learning, Washington-area science teacher Rebecca Bushway set her students an ambitious task: design and build a low-cost lead filter that fixes to faucets and removes the toxic metal.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of raping a woman in front of her husband and drugging her in-laws in Rangpur’s Badarganj upazila.

With the water levels of the Surma and Kushiyara rivers slowly receding, the damning impacts of the floods in Sylhet and Sunamganj has become more visible.

Paturia River Police yesterday recovered the body of Nassa Group’s general manager from the Jamuna two days after he went missing while bathing in the river in Manikganj’s Shibaloy upazila.

The president of Akhaura municipality ward unit Awami League was sent to jail yesterday after law enforcers seized 2,235 yaba pills from his residence in the municipality’s Devgram area.

Police  yesterday said they cannot take any further legal action unless a  formal complaint is lodged over a woman being physically and verbally  harassed because of her attire at Narsingdi Railway Station on  Wednesday.

Police  yesterday said they cannot take any further legal action unless a  formal complaint is lodged over a woman being physically and verbally  harassed because of her attire at Narsingdi Railway Station on  Wednesday.

Australia’s election has brought in a wave of Greens and independents pushing for aggressive targets to cut carbon emissions, who will pressure the incoming Labor government to step up its climate plans if it wants to pass any legislation.

The BNP yesterday said it would scrap all sorts of repressive acts and ordinances, including the controversial Digital Security Act, if it comes to power.

The High Court yesterday said corruption and money laundering are more damaging than murders these days.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the east and south and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will help the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh bring back the money laundered to the USA and Canada.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday warned that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia’s war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland.

A special court in India’s Bengaluru city has convicted nine Bangladeshis and punished them with sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment in connection with the gang-rape of a Bangladeshi woman in May last year.

Police on Friday arrested a man for sexually and verbally harassing a young woman over how she was dressed at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday.

Australia’s Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule as the government was swept away in yesterday’s election by a wave of support for candidates who campaigned for more action on climate change and may hold the balance of power.