The joy knew no bounds as the players and support staff bolted to the middle of the Senwes Park ground waving the national flag and dancing all the way.

The two-finger test, so called for its use of the doctor’s index and middle fingers to check for the presence and status of the survivor’s hymen, was banned in 2018 for being pseudo-science, as well as traumatic and humiliating for survivors.

The deck will be stacked against the Bangladesh cricket team when the first Test against Pakistan starts in Rawalpindi today.

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address became a shocking display of US divisions Tuesday with Democrats protesting the Republican’s boasts before their leader, Nancy Pelosi, ripped up her copy of the speech on live television.

Bangladesh Railway will start discussion with Indian Railways soon to assess whether two more passenger train routes can be opened between the countries, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said yesterday.

The construction of the Padma Bridge may be affected if the coronavirus situation does not improve within the next two months, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

The world has a “window of opportunity” to halt the spread of coronavirus, global health experts said, as the number of people infected in China jumped to 25,000 and millions more were ordered to stay indoors.

The turnout was less than 20 percent in 709 centres in the February 1 Dhaka city polls, shows Election Commission data on all the 2,468 centres released yesterday.

An estimated $3.1 billion, or about Tk 26,400 crore, is siphoned away every year by foreign nationals employed in the country, found a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh.

A bill to bring the surplus money of 61 state and autonomous agencies to the national exchequer was passed amid unprecedented opposition from Jatiya Party (JP) and BNP MPs in parliament yesterday.

The apathy of voters during the recently held Dhaka city elections is not good for democracy, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

The BNP says it has found two future leaders in Tabith Awal and Ishraque Hossain despite their heavy defeats in Saturday’s Dhaka city polls.

The World Health Organization said yesterday that the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a “pandemic”.

A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.

The absence of opposition parties at polling centres has made Dhaka city elections questionable, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder said yesterday.

Banks rescheduled a record amount of defaulted loans last year as part of their efforts to contain bad debt and show hefty profit.

Grameenphone may not be able to sell new SIMs after a week or two as it has come close to exhausting the new connections it was allowed to sell by the regulator, said its CEO yesterday.

It has been four years since a band of hackers broke into this Bangladesh Bank’s account with the New York Fed with the intent to pull off what would have been the biggest cyber heist in history.

Accepting another demand of road transport association leaders, the government has relaxed the experience requirement for getting a heavy vehicle driving licence.

Wrong question papers were distributed among students during yesterday’s Bangla first part SSC exams at four centres in Barishal, Nilphamari, Jashore, and Feni.