At least 10 peoplewere injured as Payra Bridge toll collectors and a local lawmaker’s relatives clashed at the toll plaza in Patuakhali on Thursday.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon at students trying to storm Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday as the country was brought to a halt by a trade union strike demanding the government step down.

The public administration ministry has reprimanded Senior Assistant Secretary Sarwoer Alam as a minor punishment for making a comment on Facebook after not being promoted to deputy secretary.

Three alleged Rohingya criminals of a gang were arrested in a camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf on Thursday night.

A Jhenidah court yesterday sent two youths to jail over raping a seventh-grader in Shailakupa upazila.

Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants of a rural part of the occupied West Bank in an area which Israel has designated for military exercises.

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, according to a preprint version of a large US study that counters assumptions in other studies that it was more transmissible but less severe.

The European Commission has proposed changes to its planned embargo on Russian oil to give Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic more time to prepare for the shift in their energy supplies, three EU sources said yesterday.

A young man and his mother died after the motorcycle he was riding collided head-on with a truck in Kushtia’s Battail Junction area yesterday morning. 

The coal production of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited has almost come to a halt as the workers continue to protest demanding their payment of eight months’ arrears.

A man who was picked up from his house in the capital’s Mirpur by men claiming to be law enforcers on April 19 was “shown arrested” by Rab-8 in Barisal yesterday.

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) could not pay arrears and benefits to all the laid-off government jute mill workers even after about two years.

Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer has a competitor.

As the two-month ban on hilsa fishing ended, firshermen yesterday started laying their nets onto rivers again, said Barishal’s Divisional Fisheries Office.

Alexanda Kotey, part of the Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles,” was sentenced to life in prison Friday, with relatives of victims addressing him and another member directly in the US court.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has repeated his warning that Pyongyang could “preemptively” use its nuclear weaponry to counter hostile forces, state media reported yesterday.

Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region yesterday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine’s military said, while Moscow said Western sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to Ukraine were impeding peace negotiations.

A man died yesterday, while homes were destroyed as nor’westers, hailstorms and thunderstorms hit Joypurhat, Thakurgaon and Nilphamari on Friday night.

Bangladesh reported 17 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday morning, taking the total number of cases to 19,52,691.

Police yesterday arrested BM Jasim, union parishad chairman of Hayndgaon, and his son for beating up a former president of the union’s AL unit on Friday afternoon.