Around 60 migrants, mostly from Bangladesh, died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Italy from Libya Thursday night, the Tunisian Red Crescent said yesterday.

Mothers, who have overcome all challenges to become successful professionals and be role models to their sons and daughters, say that teaching sons to share their familial and social space equally with girls is the first step for removing the double standards that have been instilled in generations.

At least 1,552 people were killed and 3,039 others injured in 1,495 road accidents across the country in the first four months of the year, revealed a report of the National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR), a non-government organisation that works for road safety.

Another supporter of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) was shot dead by a group of armed men in Bandarban’s Sadar upazila on Thursday night, only two days after the killing of a member of the same party in the upazila.

Workers of state-run jute mills will block roads in the capital today to press home their demands for arrears and fair wages.

Former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain has been suspended over the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan in Feni. Moazzem was attached to the office of deputy inspector general (Rangpur Range) on Wednesday, said Sohel Rana, assistant inspector

The United States escalated a tariff war with China yesterday by hiking levies on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods amid last-ditch talks to rescue a trade deal, as US President Donald Trump signalled that talks could drag on beyond this week.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ flight schedule on domestic routes is in disarray following the crash-landing of its Dash-8 aircraft in Myanmar’s Yangon on Wednesday.

Police seized the bus, whose driver and helper allegedly raped and killed nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania, from Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila on Thursday evening.

Nayan Ahmed started searching for a job since his graduation in 2016. Every day, he browses through newspapers and online job portals for employment opportunities in public service and spends hours to ready himself.

Hinting at BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, now in London, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the killers and money launderers must be punished.

Bangladesh’s recent GDP growth data is “puzzling” and inconsistent with various indicators of the economy, South Asian Network on Economic Modeling, a non-profit research organisation, said yesterday.

When people can buy a mobile phone SIM for a few hundred taka tops, a gang with the help of unscrupulous employees of carriers has been selling easy-to-remember phone numbers for as much as Tk 3 lakh.

Grief and anger have gripped the family of Shahinoor Akter Tania, a nurse of Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kallyanpur branch who was raped and murdered allegedly on a bus on Monday night.

In an onslaught on the Meghna, a private ship-building company is constructing its shipyard’s slipways into the river at Meghnaghat in Sonargaon, but the river custodians are doing little to stop it.

The High Court yesterday asked two high officials from the Bangladesh Standard Testing Institution (BSTI) and the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) to appear before it on Sunday to give explanation about 52 food products found to be “substandard” by the BSTI.

The third match of the tri-nation series between Bangladesh and hosts Ireland was called off due to persistent rain even before the toss could take place at the Malahide Cricket Club in Dublin yesterday.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh will send its head of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group (AAIG) to Myanmar to assist the country’s aviation department investigate Wednesday’s Biman Bangladesh flight accident at Yangon Airport.

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority yesterday submitted a test report to the High Court and said it found harmful elements in most of the 190 samples of raw and packed liquid milk, curd, and fodder. The samples were tested at the National Food Safety Laboratory.

Iran yesterday announced it was scaling back curbs to its nuclear programme, announcing steps that stop short of violating its 2015 deal with world powers for now, but threatening more action if countries did not shield it from US sanctions.