Bangladesh Shipping Corporation showed sheer negligence by allowing Banglar Samriddhi to sail to a war zone in Ukraine, claimed leaders of Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers’ Association yesterday.

Bangladesh needs to end the easy policy measures it ushered in to soften the blow of the global coronavirus pandemic, closely monitoring the bank asset quality and inflation, and stand ready to normalise its monetary policy, said the International Monetary Fund.

A man was sent to jail yesterday on charge of raping a girl who has disabilities in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, said police.

A Khulna court on Thursday sent a lecturer of Khulna University in a case filed over torturing his wife for dowry.

France has lifted restrictions on Bangladesh and decided to consider it a “Green” listed country with regards to Covid-19.

A Swechchhasebak League leader on Thursday landed in jail on charge of snatching money.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

Dhaka University Alumni Association is going to accord posthumous honours to 100 dignitaries to celebrate 100 years of the university.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police has arrested a close associate of former independent lawmaker Kazi Papul, who was sentenced to seven years in jail in a human trafficking case by a Kuwait court last year.

Musheq Alam Saikat, son of State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam, had physically abused and attempted to murder his ex-wife Tasnova Iqbal, according to a police investigation report.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) refers to certain symptoms many women go through every month ahead of their menstrual periods.

A seal wearing a helmet with an antenna might look unusual, but eight Weddell seals, each with a 580g monitoring device on their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers survey the waters under the thick ice sheet in Antarctica.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought support of two US lawmakers to have the sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion and seven of its current and former officials lifted on a priority basis.

Myanmar-based narcotics smugglers are supplying the synthetic drug “ice” to Bangladesh by taking only 20 or 30 percent of the payment in advance in cash or hundi, according to the Rapid Action Battalion.

A Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) man allegedly died by shooting himself with his service weapon at a camp in Sapahar border in Naogaon early yesterday.

Officials reported 657 new cases of Covid and five deaths from the disease as the positivity rate dipped below three percent in the 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday

Villagers beat two burglary suspects to death and seriously injured another in the Banparil area of the district early yesterday.

Australia’s emergency services yesterday ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that has killed 13 people in a week of record-setting east coast floods, but the city of Sydney escaped the worst of the deluge.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and three others in two cases filed over attacking policemen and vandalising vehicles in December 2019.

The prosecution concluded arguments in a money laundering case against Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin and 45 others yesterday.