A parliamentary watchdog yesterday raised questions over the commerce ministry’s delay in importing onions to face the ongoing crisis, while another minister separately admitted the government’s “failure” in this regard.

Mobile phone users will soon be able to call 999 or any other emergency numbers without a mobile SIM card or internet access during natural disasters. Any live mobile network can be used to make the call.

Assistant Proctor of Jahangirnagar University Mohibur Rouf Shaibal, along with some students, yesterday allegedly assaulted two of the protesters demanding removal of the vice-chancellor.

Eight men were arrested over rape incidents across the country yesterday.

Around 144 passengers of Air Asia had to suffer an around 24-hour delay due to a technical glitch yesterday, sources at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport said.

Scientists said yesterday they are closing in on a new game-changing vaccine for tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease that claimed some 1.5 million lives last year.

A British MP who headed a parliamentary committee probing drug policies is facing a six-month suspension after a lengthy inquiry into claims he offered to pay for cocaine.

Police arrested six people on charge of gang-raping a woman, while a madrasa teacher was sent to jail for sexually harassing a student.

Buet students demanding justice for Abrar Fahad yesterday vowed not to return to classes or sit for exams until the authorities met their 10-point demand.

Three men were killed in what Rab said was a gunfight with their members in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

The results of Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations are likely to be published under four-point grading scale from 2020, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

Britain was heading towards its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early ballot gained support from opposition parties yesterday.

Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered.

The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a US commando raid in Syria on Saturday, three officials told Reuters.

Locals of Gaddimari village have taken it upon themselves to build a bridge made of bamboo after the government failed to do so, despite repeated appeals.

Eight-year-old Khadija Akhter has never been to school. She is also well past the eligible age to enter a primary school.

An English tourist had his foot bitten off by a shark while another was bitten during the attack in the Whitsunday Islands near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef yesterday, officials said.

The Taliban should call a one-month ceasefire to prove they still control their forces, Afghanistan’s national security advisor said yesterday, amid signs the US wants to rekindle talks with the insurgents.

Washington’s sanctions against Tehran have drastically constrained its ability to pay for humanitarian imports and are threatening the health rights of Iranians, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday pressed charges against five people in a case filed over forgery in the design of FR Tower in the capital’s Banani area.