It was a damp end to the T20I tri-series as Bangladesh and Afghanistan were declared joint champions after the final was washed out at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

The tweets, which claimed the Islamic State carried out attacks on police in the capital in the last five months, were actually made from Bangladesh, the top counter-terror official said yesterday.

The National Board of Revenue yesterday asked banks to provide account details of two former Public Works Division top engineers and their wives, said officials.

Britain’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in suspending parliament in the run-up to Brexit, in a momentous defeat that sparked calls for him to resign.

The government yesterday imposed a travel ban on President of Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit Ismail Hossain Samrat, meaning he can no longer leave the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the prestigious Vaccine Hero award in recognition of Bangladesh’s outstanding success in vaccination to immunise children.

Bangladesh’s economy is burdened with an estimated $1.21 billion a year for supporting the Rohingyas and the cost may go up with their population growth, inflation, and decline in foreign funding, experts said yesterday.

Amid the clampdown on gambling, Rab members got a tip that five vaults were sold from English Road area recently and the buyer is a top casino businessman. The tip led the elite force to three houses at Banianagar and Narinda in Old Dhaka.

Some of the Nepali citizens who had been working at a casino in Mohammedan Sporting Club came to Bangladesh in the guise of readymade garments traders, documents recovered from the club showed.

The ongoing T20I tri-series will come to an end after hosts Bangladesh take on Afghanistan in their third meeting of the tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has ordered all banks to freeze accounts of SM Golam Kibria Shamim, his wife and mother, and of now-expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said collaboration among countries at regional and global levels is fundamental to accelerate progress in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Cash-strapped clubs allowed “casinos” on their premises due to “political pressure” and the lure of money, according to officials of two clubs that were raided by police on Sunday.

Members of a “Neo-JMB” cell planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at two spots and attacked policemen at three others in the capital in the last six months, counterterrorism officials said.

The education ministry yesterday sent a letter to the University Grants Commission (UGC), asking to form a committee to investigate the situation at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj.

If you go by the documents of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj, over 68 percent work to build a concrete Shaheed Minar on the campus has been completed.

A Rohingya couple was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar yesterday, hours after they were detained by the law enforcers.

The Supreme Court administration yesterday issued a set of directives for the lower court judges on using social media, asking them not to upload images and video clips of SC judges and also not to publish information or make comments that go against the national unity and spirit.

Some 50 staffers, mostly data entry operators, of different projects of the Election Commission’s Chattogram office are under the scanner, after investigators found their involvement in making Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards for the Rohingya people, police said.

Several hundred people surrounded the office of the Civil Surgeon (CS) in Nilphamari yesterday, protesting the use of expired intravenous saline on a number of female patients in Nilphamari Modernised Sadar Hospital on Saturday night.