A writ petition filed with the High Court yesterday sought directives to give TK 3 crore compensation to the family of Titash Ghosh, who died in an ambulance on a ferry on the way to Dhaka on Thursday.

Eighteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi early yesterday, officials said.

The High Court yesterday started hearing the bail petition of Khalea Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

A rape accused was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Chattogram’s Patiya upazila early yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said the government would make efforts to ensure paddy farmers get a fair price for their produce next season.

Prosecution witness Sirajul Islam, who was the officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station on July 1, 2016, gave a vivid description of the Holey Artisan cafe attack in the capital’s Gulshan before a Dhaka court yesterday.

The Chattogram Custom House found evidence of corruption against six of its officials who allegedly helped an importer dodge taxes on consignments released from the Chattogram airport earlier this month.

Gigantic forest fires have regularly raged through the vast expanses of Russia’s Siberia, but the magnitude of this year’s blazes has reached an exceptional level with fears of a long-term impact on the environment.

Indonesia has returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste to France and Hong Kong, an official said yesterday, marking the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back rubbish to their wealthy places of origin.

Switzerland yesterday said it was suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after an ethics report revealed alleged mismanagement and abuse of authority at the agency’s highest levels.

After wreaking havoc across the capital, the dengue disease has spread to 60 other districts, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Dhaka last night on a three-day visit, which is expected to focus on the Rohingya issue.

Although most of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws operate in the capital without following metered fare, a drivers’ organisation now demands hiking the fare in line with the increased prices of gas and daily essentials.

Regime and russian bombardment on Sunday killed 11 civilians in northwestern Syria where ramped up attacks by the two allies have claimed hundreds of lives since April, a war monitor said.

Three alleged criminals, including two drug peddlers, were killed in “gunfights” with Rab in the capital and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Three people were killed and at least 15 others injured in a shooting at a major food festival in California on Sunday, police said.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has stepped back from his budget decision to increase the source tax on all national savings instruments to 10 percent, considering that the hike would add more burden on the fixed income groups.

The schoolbag, bought just months before the tragedy, still looks new. Roksana Khatun kept it safely on the reading table. Her daughter Diya Khanom Mim used to love that bag very much. Her textbooks were lined neatly right next to it.

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.

Alhaz Hossain, a dairy farmer from Pabna’s Chatmohar, yesterday brought 30 litters of milk at the Pran Chilling Center (a unit of Pran Group for milk collection) at Sharatnagar Bazar in Bhangura, but to no avail.