Bangladesh Chhatra League activists allegedly attacked students protesting the gang-rape of a university student in Gopalganj yesterday.

Bangladesh is deeply concerned at the recent escalation of violence in Ukraine, the foreign ministry said in a statement yesterday.

As Tania Khatun went to sleep around 4:00am, shortly after putting her child to bed, she was jolted awake by the horrifying sounds of explosions reverberating through the city of Kyiv.

He threatened to impose the harshest sanctions ever on Russia. He worked to galvanise US allies into a united front. He supplied Ukraine with more weapons than any American president before him. And he beefed up US forces on Nato’s eastern flank as reassurance of his commitment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a ‘full-scale invasion’ of Ukraine yesterday, killing dozens and forcing thousands to flee for their lives in the pro-Western neighbour.

The Covid-19 vaccination centres are a hub of chaos now after the government scrapped the mandatory registration for the jab from February 16 and with the window to get the first dose slamming shut on February 26.

Being senior “government officials”, Khandaker Enamul Basir and Mizanur Rahman took and gave bribes, causing serious damage to the image of public servants, a Dhaka court said yesterday while delivering the verdict in a graft case against the duo.

Five friends were in a cheerful mood as they attended a friend’s wedding ceremony, but they could not return home. Their lives were cut short by a road accident in Chandpur early yesterday.

The long-awaited universal pension scheme, one of the pledges of the ruling party’s 2008 election manifesto, is expected to take off within a year.

Bangladesh Railway continues to make huge losses from its operations allegedly due to poor services, corruption, and a lack of proper management of assets.

Afif Hossain and Mehedi Hasan Miraz forged a record unbeaten 174-run partnership for the seventh wicket as Bangladesh took a 1-0 lead against Afghanistan in the three-match ODI series with a four-wicket victory at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday.

A Chinese company has proposed building a metro rail line in Chattogram and reclaiming land from the sea to build a 60-square km “smart city” in exchange for a share of the latter.

A human rights worker is under investigation after he filed a Right to Information request with police, asking for the number of people accused and arrested under the Digital Security Act between 2018 and 2021.

The search committee, tasked with making recommendations for appointments to the next Election Commission, has finalised the names of 10 people to submit to the president for picking the chief election commissioner and four other commissioners.

The man, whose death has sparked protests in Sunamganj, was brutally tortured in custody at Shantiganj Police Station, said two witnesses.

The family that lost five siblings after a pickup truck ran them over was hoping against hope that another member would survive the accident, but it proved to be in vain yesterday.

Both Sumon Mia and his wife Modina Begum were at work when a fire ravaged their home in Seedstore area of Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila on Sunday night, killing all their three children on the spot.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government will amend both the relevant sections of the Evidence Act in order to block all avenues of questioning the character of rape victims in court.

Buildings on either side of Satmasjid Road between Jigatala and Shankar in the capital’s Dhanmondi are teeming with signs and hoardings of different sizes and colours, mostly in English.

Sacked ACC officer Sharif Uddin said the senior secretary of a ministry, who had links to the land acquisition scammers in Cox’s Bazar, used his influence to get him fired from his job.