The owner of the Suprobhat Paribahan bus yesterday confessed to a magistrate that the conductor, as instructed by him, was at the wheel when the vehicle ran over and killed university student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury on Pragati Sarani last month.

For four years, Rajuk has been silent on reported incidents of building approvals with forged signatures of the architects concerned, said the president of Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) at a press conference yesterday.

Recently, Sisnabi Mondol, a farmer in Dinajpur's Chirirbandar upazila, has sold his Aman paddy at Tk 600 per maund, whereas the rate was Tk 720 when the harvest season began in December.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto for the upcoming parliamentary polls, saying all trade movement with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan would be conducted through integrated check-posts.

A Dhaka-bound aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Singapore made an emergency landing at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday evening, as the pilot suspected a technical fault in one of the engines.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday named a Supreme Court judge to lead an inquiry into the massacre last month of 50 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques.

Palestinian prime minister-designate Mohammad Shtayyeh will announce the make-up of his new government in the coming days, Palestinian officials said yesterday.

Malaysian authorities were on the lookout for boats believed to be carrying up to 200 Rohingyas after dozens of migrants were found near a beach in the country's north yesterday.

A Chattogram court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of drilling holes into a youth's legs in the port city.

A British man poisoned along with his partner with a nerve agent, amid an assassination attempt on a Russian ex-spy in England blamed on Moscow, met its top UK envoy on Saturday, according to reports.

Two Rajshahi University students died allegedly after drinking unauthorised liquor yesterday, just a day after the death of a Russian engineer working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant allegedly due to the same cause.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins Tuesday's elections, a deeply controversial move that could prove to be the death knell for the two-state solution.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday donated all his movable and immovable properties to a Trust.

A Dutchman yesterday completed an epic 95,000 kilometre (59,000 mile) journey by electric car in Sydney in a bid to prove the viability of such vehicles in tackling climate change.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the respondents to explain within four weeks why they should not be directed to pay compensation to the families of Barguna school victims.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday feared that vested quarters might exploit the frustrated Rohingya youths to materialise their ill motive.

A total of 614 members of several outlaw gangs will surrender to police tomorrow in Pabna, said home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday.

Workers of state-owned jute mills from across the country yesterday announced fresh demonstrations, including road blocks next week, to press home their nine-point demand.

At least nine people, including five policemen, were injured as activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and police clashed on Chittagong University campus yesterday.

Another accused in the case over the gang rape of a mother of six in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila landed in jail yesterday after he surrendered before a court.