Feni madrasa Principal SM Siraj Ud Doula confessed to ordering the fatal arson attack on Nus-rat Jahan Rafi as she refused to withdraw the sexual harassment charges brought against him, police said.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday instructed the authorities of all key point installations (KPI), including residential hotels and reli-gious institutions, to beef up their security.

Sri Lanka’s churches remained shut yesterday forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country’s Roman Catholic leader called “an insult to humanity”.

Last year, the murders and attempted murders of 276 children in the country were cited in 246 news reports published in six leading national dailies, says Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) in its report titled “Bangladesh Child Situation-2018: Newspaper Analysis”.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three Myanmar nationals to 10 years in jail for their involvement in planning subversive activities in Bangladesh.

At least eight people, including three children, died in separate road accidents in Chandpur, Laxmipur and Dhaka yesterday.

The BNP decided to write to the Speaker and the Election Commission to revoke the parliamentary membership of the party’s MPs-elect, if they take oath.

More than two billion dollars was laundered out of Bangladesh to six major labour-recruiting countries to illegally purchase work visas in 2016, said Transparency International Bangladesh Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to make sure that trial proceedings are not delayed.

On June 20 last year, police arrested two men -- Sonu and Rubel -- and recovered two knives from their possession from the capital’s Geneva camp in Mohammadpur. A third man named Rahi fled the scene, leaving a steel-made machete.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has tortured a Bangladeshi man by pulling out all 10 of his fingernails with pliers after he got caught for illegal entry.

A group of former leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir yesterday launched a new political initiative named Jana Aakangkhar Bangladesh.

A gun battle between troops and suspected Islamist militants on Sri Lanka’s east coast left 15 dead, including six children, a military spokesman said yesterday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people on the island.

“I am growing old. I am becoming sick… I want to see my son for one last time before I die.” The voice of Saleha Begum, 65, was cracking repeatedly as she sought to know the whereabouts of her son Moazzem Hossain Topu.

The Chattogram-based GPH Ispat Ltd has constructed a makeshift dam on a stream bordering the Jangal-Bashbaria reserve forest in Sitakunda to secure water supply to its new factory.

Zahidur Rahman for taking oath as a member of the 11th parliament violating the party’s decision.

Top UN agency leaders have asked the international community to continue supporting the critical needs of 1.2 million people, Rohingya refugees and their local host communities, in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is not her policy to divide any party or do anything that leads to a split in a party.

Archaeologists in Sirajganj have unearthed a brick structure which they claimed could be more than 1,000 years old.

A politically-affiliated murderer may just be planning his big comeback. At least that is what the locals in his area believe. For them, it is a nightmare come true.