At least eight people were killed and 16 injured in accidents in three districts during the last two days, our correspondents and a news agency report.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday termed the government’s decision to waive 10 percent VAT on imported coal for coal fired power plant as “imprudent”.

With onion prices still unstable, an initiative to sell the essential at Tk 45 per kg by Police Nari Kalyan Samity (Punak), an association for welfare of the female members of police families, generated strong buzz among port city dwellers.

The civil aviation ministry will not tolerate any negligence and irregularity in providing quality service to passengers of Biman, said ministry Secretary Mohibul Haque yesterday, during a sudden visit to the Dhaka airport.

Natural disasters are increasing in the country due to climate change, so resilience needs to be at the centre of all types of development at the present time, said a Buet professor yesterday.

Three members of a family were killed and five others were injured as a microbus they were in rear-ended a covered van in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila yesterday morning.

Artificial-intelligence judges, cyber-courts, and verdicts delivered on chat apps -- welcome to China’s brave new world of justice spotlighted by authorities this week.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday handed over two Bangladeshi fishermen to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a day after they picked them up from the Padma in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Democrats in the US House of Representatives were set to focus yesterday on the serious business of deciding what charges to bring against President Donald Trump, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the Judiciary Committee to draft formal articles of impeachment.

Global freedom of expression has been as its lowest for a decade, and Bangladesh is no exception with record numbers of attacks on journalists and cases of “legal harassment”, many perpetrated by state and political actors, says a UK-based rights body report.

The BNP may go for street agitation across the country for the release of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia if she is denied bail in a corruption case.

Footprints on the edge of a building’s roof and a pair of sandals found near the body.

The authorities have ordered a leading Rohingya rights group to lock up its headquarters, said a spokesman for the group.

A Saudi national visiting the United States for military training was the suspect in a shooting attack at a US Navy base in Florida in which four people were killed yesterday, three US defense officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Moscow seeks to renew the nuclear New Start treaty, a key remaining US-Russian arms treaty, before the end of the year.

Japanese scientists will begin the country’s first human trial for a new vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus this month, they said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a legislative agenda on Thursday that touts tax cuts and tougher climate actions in the first test of his minority government.

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday said she has directed a House committee to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump over his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, a historic step that sets up a fight over whether to oust him from office.

A court in Moulvibazar yesterday sent a man to jail for allegedly raping his 12-year-old daughter on Wednesday.