The hillocks at the centuries-old Tarapur Tea Estate, a Debottor (endowed) property in Sylhet, are being razed and grabbed by some locals. After the estate remained illegally occupied by industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye for decades, it was returned to the shebait

Two real estate businessmen landed in jail yesterday, a day after police arrested them on charge of raping a woman at an office in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

The government is planning to introduce robotics at the secondary level in schools on a pilot basis from next year in an effort to equip young learners for the technology-driven world.

Some 60 people were killed in mob beatings in the last nine months, says Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). Of them, 17 were killed in July alone, said the rights body.

Officer-in-Charge of Paltan Police Station Mahmudul Haque has been suspended following allegations of rape.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she wanted a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis evading confrontation with anybody over the issue.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has doubled the entrance fee for Sadarghat and other major launch terminals in the country.

Iran said on Monday that it is on track to create a new oil terminal on the Sea of Oman that would open a new export route for its crude and allow tankers to bypass the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Uighur scholar imprisoned in China since 2014 was jointly awarded a top European human rights prize on Monday, an accolade likely to draw the ire of Beijing.

Sarajevo journalists protested Monday outside a football club whose fans stormed a radio station and threatened to kill its reporters unless they removed an article from their website.

Britain’s Prince Harry on Monday paid tribute to a British soldier who was killed during an anti-poaching patrol operation in southeastern Malawi.

A former Bosnian Muslim army officer was jailed for 12 years on Monday over his role in the 1990s wartime killing of 27 Croat civilians, including women, children and elderly, a Sarajevo court ruled.

Uttam Barua, the Buddhist youth whose Facebook page image was doctored with an anti-Islam post to incite the 2012 Ramu attack, is still missing.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot a Bangladeshi cattle trader in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila early yesterday.

Wary of international interference, Myanmar insisted Saturday it wants Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh repatriated to their former homes so they can live in a “more conducive environment” than the one they left.

Almost a month after the formation of a “high level” taskforce, initiated to curb road accidents and bring discipline to the transport section, the government is yet to issue a circular or gazette in this regard.

It is uncertain when the High Court will deliver its verdict on the writ petitions seeking actions against those who attacked Buddhist communities in Ramu in 2012 as well as the negligent administration officials who didn’t prevent the mayhem.

Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating an extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using Nasa’s planet-hunting telescope.

India yesterday imposed a ban on export of onions, and the wholesale markets across Bangladesh witnessed an overall hike of Tk 20 per kg within hours.