The High Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction at the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) for not complying with its order to examine the quality of water supplied by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) through a committee.

To provide better public service at a root level, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended appointing BCS cadre officials as officers-in-charge of police stations.

A seventh grader was allegedly raped by a 65-year-old man at her home in Savar yesterday.

Chinese airlines yesterday conducted test flights at a new mega-airport in Beijing that is set to become one of the world’s busiest after it opens later this year.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Panama on Sunday, injuring at least five people and causing damage to businesses and homes, officials said.

Support is growing in Germany for a “mosque tax” to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or “radical” foreign funding sources, a media report said yesterday.

A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft’s landing gear failed, forcing the jet into an emergency landing with no front wheels yesterday morning, an official said.

A murder suspect was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram city’s Bakalia area early yesterday.

A leader of the pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal (JSD) has been missing since he was picked up by plainclothes men from Sirajganj on Friday, alleged BNP and JSD leaders.

Bus driver Nuruzzaman, one of the accused in the murder case of nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania, gave confessional statement at a Kishoreganj court on Saturday.

About 50 percent of public transport workers have vision problems, according to a survey conducted in the capital’s Sayedabad among 1,200 drivers and their assistants.

A day labourer died after his co-worker pumped air into his body through his rectum in Pabna, local police said.

Tens of millions of Indians voted yesterday in the penultimate round of a seven-phase general election, with the opposition seeking a united stand to deny Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term.

It was late March. Around 3:30pm, the Biramer Pachgachchi Govt Primary School was already closed, an hour too early. So was the nearby Kashirpara Govt Primary School. Both schools face a similar problem --neither the students nor the teachers are much interested in class.

The bodies of three members of a family were recovered from a one-storey house in the capital’s Uttarkhan yesterday.

At least 14 children became sicker at the paediatrics ward of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital last night after being given injections and a huge number of policemen had to be deployed to control the angry parents and relatives of the children.

South Africa’s ruling ANC yesterday geared for its sixth straight term in power in the post-apartheid era but its worst ever electoral showing could hamper efforts to revive the flagging economy and fight graft.

Two people, including a child, were burnt to death last night in Lighthouse area of Cox’s Bazar town.

Venezuela yesterday braced for another day of nationwide protests after President Nicolas Maduro clamped down further on opposition leader Juan Guaido, locking up his deputy in a military prison following a dramatic arrest.

Two more police officials have been suspended and attached to other police units for negligence in duty over the murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.