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.

The deputy commissioner’s office in Chandpur has sued an Awami League leader and 24 others for grabbing khas land in the district’s Haimchar upazila.

Hajj management would be very challenging this year as almost all hajj-related activities are yet to start with just two months to complete those, said organisations involved in it.

It could rain on Eid Day in many areas across the country as the current mild heatwave is likely to stay until tomorrow, said a meteorologist yesterday.

Ukraine acknowledged yesterday that it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse, as Nato warned the conflict could last years.

Brahmanbaria Deputy Commissioner Shahgir Alam has halted the construction work of two shelter projects after finding severe irregularities.

A second-grader in Cox’s Bazar and a fourth-grader in Tangail were raped allegedly by their neighbours.

Two men were killed as a lorry hit their motorcycle on the capital’s Khilgaon flyover around 2:00am yesterday, said police.

Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, was observed across the country yesterday with due religious solemnity.

A woman was killed as a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Nazirhat Bazar area of Chattogram’s Fatikchhari upazila yesterday afternoon.

All Sri Lanka’s creditors will be treated equally in a planned restructuring of the country’s debt, its central bank governor said yesterday, adding that he expected progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the next two months.

The Department of Shipping has formed a three-member investigation committee to probe the sinking of Bangladeshi vessel MV Marintrust-1 at the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata over a month ago.

Detectives arrested five students of Dhaka College in different areas of the capital on charges of killing the delivery person of a courier service during a recent clash between students and shopkeepers of New Market.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India will take lead in structuring partnership for production, transmission and trade of energy, especially hydropower, between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.

The toll of the under-construction Padma bridge may be at least 1.5 times higher than the average toll paid on ferries plying the Padma.

A huge number of city dwellers left the capital yesterday as it was their last working day before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Millions of workers staged a crippling strike in Sri Lanka yesterday, adding to pressure on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his ruling family to quit over the country’s worst-ever economic crisis.

The agricultural ministry defended the participation of officials’, in phases, in a six-month-long exhibition in the Netherlands, without mentioning the exact number of delegates.

The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a study said yesterday.