The day madrasa student Nusrat was attacked in Feni, Umme Sultan Poppy, a suspect in the case, arrived late for an examination at the institution and claimed that she had gone to the washroom, a witness said in his deposition before a court yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last night said Awami League MPs who took a stance against the party in the recently held upazila parishad polls would not get party tickets in the upcoming elections.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of an Italian teenager 36 years ago deepened yesterday after two graves at the Vatican thought to possibly hold her remains were discovered to be empty.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the ACC to submit the probe report on a money laundering case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others by August 28.

A huge blaze broke out at a gas-fired power station just outside Moscow sending a plume of smoke and flames 50 metres (165 feet) into the sky, Russian television showed yesterday.

The US city of New Orleans prepared Wednesday to face the first tropical storm of the season, which could become a hurricane and led the governor of Louisiana to declare a state of emergency.

The US and Qatar have agreed a raft of contracts worth billions of dollars during a visit to Washington by the Gulf state’s emir, including an $8 billion deal on a petrochemical project.

Police yesterday arrested a schoolboy on suspicion of his involvement with Rifat Sharif killing.

Consumption of sugary drinks such as soda and fruit juice is linked to a higher risk of developing certain kinds of cancer, researchers reported yesterday.

Countries that abuse journalists should pay a “diplomatic price”, British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt told a conference on media freedom Wednesday, adding that liberal democracies must also “practise what we preach”.

An alleged yaba trader was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

Perennial poverty have lately forced hundreds of fishermen to sail their vessels into the Bay of Bengal for deep sea fishing, ignoring a government ban.

Rabiul Islam completed his diploma in Architecture and Interior Design from Kurigram Polytechnic Institute in December 2015, but he is still to get a decent job.

Passengers handed a man to railway police, alleging that he had raped a 10-year-old girl inside the toilet of the Jamuna Express on Wednesday night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said those who are criticising the gas price hike have failed to understand the reality and didn’t see the development works carried out by the government.

The Jatiya Rickshaw-Van Shramik League yesterday suspended their road block movement, following assurances of separate lanes on highways for rickshaws and a relax on the ban on the three-wheelers in three major city roads.

A top child cancer specialist -- one of only three such experts in the country -- has been transferred from Chattogram Medical College Hospital to a Rangamati hospital with no cancer treatment facilities.

Tunisian authorities rescued 71 migrants, including 37 Bangladeshis, as their boat began to sink after setting out from neighbouring Libya for Italy, the National Guard said.

Australian seagulls carry drug-resistant bacteria that could lead to serious infections in humans, researchers said yesterday.

The Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury yesterday assured that Bangladesh will complete the Strategic Environmental As-sessment for the conservation of Bangladesh’s south west region, including the Sundarbans, in two and a half years.