An inter-ministerial meeting ended yesterday without fixing any date for resuming the operation of trains between Bangladesh and India amid expectations that the service would resume soon.

A Panchagarh court yesterday sent a sub-inspector of police to jail in a rape case after the end of his six-month bail granted by the High Court.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson found himself under fire yesterday, including from his own MPs, after saying that Brexit showed that Britons shared the same “instinct” for freedom as Ukrainians.

Bangladesh could not cope with the kick and bounce on offer at The Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg yesterday, suffering a seven-wicket thumping at the hands of hosts South Africa in the 10th iteration of the annual Pink Day ODI.

Amid high prices of daily essentials, many in need returned empty-handed from the TCB sales points outside the capital yesterday as they did not have “family cards”.

Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow, while Russia admitted using advanced hypersonic missiles for the first time in the conflict.

The family of Sohagi Jahan Tonu is losing hope that her brutal murder would be solved anytime soon as the killers are still at large six years on.

The countrywide mega sale of edible oil, lentil and sugar to one crore families begins today as the government looks to ensure the basic commodities for the poor amid their skyrocketing prices ahead of Ramadan.

Russia is using the UN Security Council to spread disinformation and propaganda about its invasion of Ukraine, six Western members states said Friday.

The Ukrainian authorities yesterday released two remaining Bangladeshis from a detention centre.

Bangladesh and the US are going to hold a crucial dialogue in Dhaka today that will help determine the next course of relations between the two nations.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested four members of a family in Savar’s Hemayetpur area on Friday evening in a case over provoking a youth named Firoz to die by suicide.

It will be a rare instance of a cyclone hitting the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar in March if the low-pressure system brewing in the Bay of Bengal develops into a cyclone -- “Asani”.

A schoolboy drowned and two others went missing after they went to bathe in the Jamuna and Fuljor rivers in Sirajganj on Friday.

The government has scrapped Amir Hamza’s name from the list of Swadhinata Padak winners in 2022.

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon.

A Chhatra League leader was stabbed to death by a group of unidentified criminals in Rangamati town on early yesterday.

The officer-in-charge of Chakaria Police Station was withdrawn and attached to Cox’s Bazar police lines yesterday on charges of celebrating his birthday with a fugitive accused in an attempted murder case.

A man was found alive inside a sack in the Sati River in Lalmonirhat’s Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

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