Two teachers of Chattogram’s Forestry Science and Technology Institute have been extorting students for years by threatening them with poor scores in exams, said students providing this paper with a video clip as evidence.

A 35-year-old hawker died yesterday afternoon, six days after he was released from jail on bail. His family members said he died because he was tortured while in custody of Muktagacha police.

Former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning tried to commit suicide on Wednesday, two days before a court hearing on her refusal to appear before a grand jury, a support group said.

The death toll from the collapse of a coronavirus quarantine facility in east China rose to 29 yesterday as the final victim was recovered from the rubble, authorities said.

Students clashed with riot police in Chile’s capital Santiago during protests that marked the second anniversary of conservative President Sebastian Pinera taking office on Wednesday.

Citing “the Communicable Diseases (Prevention, Control and Eradication) Act, 2018”, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday published a circular that said hiding information about any COVID-19 patient is a punishable offence.

Iraqi and United Nations officials yesterday scrambled to contain the fallout from an unprecedented rocket attack that killed three US-led coalition members and threatened yet another escalation of Iran-US tensions.

Two Rohingya “robbers” were killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab on Shaplapur Marine Drive road in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday.

An eight-year-old girl was raped allegedly by the imam of a mosque in the city’s Pallabi area yesterday morning.

The government yesterday published a revised list of names for “Swadhinata Padak 2020”, excluding SM Rois Uddin.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the birth centenary celebration of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 17 through videoconference.

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison yesterday following his sexual assault and rape conviction last month in a case hailed as a victory for the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct.

The Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has expressed grave concern over the filing of a case against Manabzamin Editor-in-Chief Matiur Rahman Chowdhury and 31 others under the Digital Security Act.

Bangladesh’s ranking has slipped to 115th from 112th a year ago in the rule of law index, drawn up by the US-based World Justice Project.

An uncle of Rajib Hossain, a third-year student of Titumir College, filed a no-confidence petition yesterday against the probe report submitted by Sub-Inspector Idris Ali of Shahbagh Police Station in connection with the case filed over Rajib’s death.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is heading towards a serious financial crisis due to the global coronavirus fallout.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today expresses his confidence that the friendship and brotherly ties between Bangladesh and

As many as 400 shanties were gutted as a devastating fire broke out at Rupnagar slum in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday.

Venezuelan riot police fired tear gas Tuesday to break up a demonstration in Caracas called by opposition leader Juan Guaido as he seeks to ramp up demands for elections to replace leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

Two Russian military reconnaissance aircraft were intercepted and escorted for hours near Alaska by US and Canadian air force jets, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.