With edible oil fast vanishing from retailers’ shelves in the wake of a supply crunch, a retired government official turned out to be on the list of hoarders after stockpiling 512 litres of soybean oil.

At least 12 buses of South Line Paribahan were burned to ashes in police custody in Faridpur town’s Goalchamat area yesterday.

A bomb exploded in front of the house of a journalist, vocal about justice for Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, in the city’s Alam Khan area around 3:00am yesterday. 

A family planning official strangled his nine-year-old daughter to death and then died by suicide in their home in Bangala union of Sirajganj’s Ullapara yesterday morning, OC Humayun Kabir of Ullapara Police Station said, quoting the victims’ family members.

Police were trying to arrest a 50-year-old man who allegedly raped a third-grader of a madrasa in Kurigram’s Rowmari upazila.

A college student, who was stabbed in Narayanganj on Friday night, died at a clinic in the capital yesterday.

Scientists have reversed signs of ageing in middle-aged and elderly mice by partially resetting the rodents’ tissues to more youthful states, an advance they say may lead to better anti-ageing methods without side effects like brittle bones, weaker muscles or cancer.

The police are involved in more extrajudicial killings than the Rapid Action Battalion, found a report by the Centre for Governance Studies.

Fleeing the horrors of war in Ukraine, Bangladeshis are finding new hope in other European countries.

The body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port, is expected to reach Dhaka on March 13 or 14, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam yesterday.

The Election Commission is all set to begin a series of talks with cross-section citizens from tomorrow.

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent “any potential spills” that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters.

Acne is a common disorder of the skin involving hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Most teens and young adults -- between the ages of 11 and 30 -- will have acne at some point.

More than 70 original Nasa photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).

Badal Khandaker went to Serbia in November last year with hopes of a well-paying job that would ensure a better life for his family back home.

Bangladesh has urged the Food and Agriculture Organization to set up a digital hub for the Asia-Pacific region so that developing countries can increase their agricultural production using modern technologies.

Three policemen, including one inspector, have been closed for allegedly beating an on-duty nurse at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.

Left Democratic Alliance, a platform of left-leaning political parties, yesterday called a half-day general strike on March 28 protesting the price hike of daily essentials.

A woman died in a house fire in Cumilla’s Barura upazila early yesterday.

A college student drowned while bathing in the Bay of Bengal near the Sugandha Beach Point in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.