Israeli air strikes killed nine Palestinians in Gaza yesterday, medical officials said, raising the Palestinian death toll to 22 over a two-day escalation in violence since Israel launched strikes to kill an Islamic Jihad commander.

Demanding the immediate removal of Jahangirnagar University (JU) vice-chancellor, protesters yesterday issued an eight-day ultimatum to open all dormitories for a safe educational environment.

Border Guard Bangladesh detained two men and a woman with gold bars weighing about 3.5 kg in separate drives in Benapole yesterday.

A couple yesterday confessed to their involvement in the murder of a woman 30 years ago.

Saudi authorities have distanced themselves from an official video that sparked controversy after it branded feminism, homosexuality and atheism as extremist ideas.

A Chinese scientist pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing next-generation battery technology from the American petroleum company where he worked, the Department of Justice said.

Eighteen Turkish students and a lecturer went on trial yesterday for taking part in a banned LGBTI Pride event at an Ankara university.

Jewel and his two siblings were waiting for his fisherman father who promised to return home with new dresses, but they only received their father’s body yesterday morning.

A mob beat up a doctor and his assistant at a “sealed-off” private clinic in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila on Monday when they allegedly tried to flee from the operation theatre leaving a patient in critical condition.

Burglars looted around 20kg of gold, worth Tk 8.5 crore, from the vault of Benapole Customs House sometime during the three-day holiday that ended on Sunday.

Israel killed a top commander from the Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a rare targeted strike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, drawing retaliatory rocket salvoes that reached as far as Tel Aviv.

A patrol team of Border Guard Bangladesh came under attack in Ghumdhum border area of Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila on Monday evening.

Expelled Dhaka South Jubo League president Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat has invested at home and abroad over Tk 1,000 crore in plots, houses, and movie production.

Once the Malaysian labour market is reopened for Bangladesh, employers will be able to hire Bangladeshi migrant workers through a platform of agencies there, Expatriates Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad has said.

A very rare species of small, deer-like animal thought to be on the verge of extinction has been spotted in the northwestern jungle of Vietnam for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Users of Chattogram Port yesterday alleged that a section of port officials, employees and equipment operators were taking bribes, harassing them and wasting time.

When onion prices have reached Tk 150 a kg, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, raising many eyebrows, claimed that the prices were under control.

The Sundarbans may be destroyed if unplanned development in the southwestern region follows the opening of the Padma Bridge, noted climate change expert Dr Saleemul Huq said yesterday.

A Russian court yesterday handed down prison terms of up to 19 years to six Crimean Tatar men for membership of a banned “terrorist organisation”, ending a three-year case denounced by rights groups.

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman has been elected Ameer of the party.