The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain within six weeks why they should not be directed to frame a guideline to prevent gender detection of unborn babies, in order to ensure protection of the unborn and pregnant mothers.

She has become the only fisherwoman with licence to catch hilsa in Barishal division after securing a place in the traditionally male-dominated fishing industry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Rome today on a four-day official visit to Italy at the invitation of her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte.

Jatiya Party senior lawmaker Kazi Firoz Rashid yesterday in parliament backtracked from his earlier position regarding the killing rapists in crossfire.

Russia plans to deport foreigners diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said yesterday, as the government postponed an investment forum over the deadly infection.

A clear majority of Canadians feel their country does not have to pay for security for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, who have settled in British Columbia.

UN peacekeepers have pushed out a leading rebel group from the restive southern town of Alindao in the perenially unstable Central African Republic, the UN mission in the country said.

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell yesterday held talks in the Iranian capital on a mission aimed at lowering tensions over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.

Some 500 tourists were trapped inside a ski resort in western Canada on Sunday after a mudslide destroyed the access road, local media reported.

Around 21 yaba and hundi traders yesterday formally surrendered to police with 21,000 yaba pills and 10 locally-made firearms in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation yesterday rejected US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East, calling on its 57 member states not to help implement it.

Yet another Baul artist was sued under the Digital Security Act for making “derogatory comments” about religion and hurting people’s sentiment.

Russia’s government on Saturday halted visa-free tourism for Chinese nationals and stopped issuing them with work visas over the deadly the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

British police yesterday said they had shot a man in Streatham, in south London, after several people were stabbed in a suspected “terrorist-related” incident.

A worker was killed and two others were injured yesterday as a chunk of earth collapsed on them while extracting stone illegally at Kalairag in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila.

It is intriguing that border killings are on the rise, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

A four-year-old girl was killed after being raped allegedly by a neighbour in Chuadanga’s Damurhuda upazila on Saturday night.

At least 30 top drug dealers, who have been in police’s “safe house” for the last seven months, are set to surrender in Cox’s Bazar today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for more translations of Bangla literature as her government wants to spread it across the world.

Bangabandhu issues an order asking government officials to attend office timely. He warns them of strict action if they are absent and negligent in performing their duties.