Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk yesterday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the east and south and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions.

Instructing all international airports and land ports to strengthen monkeypox screening, health officials yesterday asked those suffering from fever and rash to self-isolate and contact nearby public hospitals for tests. 

Unidentified people assaulted a woman and her two friends at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday morning because of the clothes she was wearing, which the attackers had termed “indecent”.

The Superintendent of Tourist Police in Sylhet Region, Altaf Hossain, has been terminated for his role in concealing 1.4kg of gold recovered in Satkhira in 2016, when he was the Satkhira SP.

Farming families across the country are in different stages of Boro harvesting. In the low-lying plains, known as the haor region, farmers start harvesting paddy

BNP leader and former MP Noor Afroz Begum Jyoti was awarded with seven-year imprisonment in a graft case yesterday.

A man hacked to death a nine-year-old son of the Dheukhali Union Parishad chairman in Faridpur’s Sadarpur in the latter’s house yesterday.

Russia has lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said yesterday.

Bangladesh is preparing to strike a deal to import wheat from India, said food ministry Secretary Mosammat Nazmunara Khanum.

Two groups of higher secondary students at Dhaka College and Ideal College were caught in a clash in the capital’s Science Laboratory intersection around 11:00am yesterday.

The law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry has sent a rejoinder to a report run by The Daily Star on April 10 under the headline “The ‘harasser’ doubles down on his act”.

Leading democracies yesterday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in its war with Russia while the European Union promised to hike military support for Kyiv by more than half a billion dollars.

After 10 long years, a third airlines -- Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flynas -- has been granted permission to transport Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims to and from the kingdom.

The Supreme Court’s chamber judge yesterday stayed a High Court order that granted bail to Monir Hossain, known as Golden Monir, in a money laundering case.

A man was killed after being caught in a dispute over land between two stepbrothers in Tangail’s Nagarpur upazila yesterday.

With the government still struggling to bring stability to the volatile edible oil market, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday said it was a mistake on his part to trust the businesspeople as they hoarded edible oil and hiked prices abnormally after the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit yesterday, as an outbreak of political violence killed five people including an MP and wounded almost 200.

The debt situation may become tricky from 2024-25 if the government does not ramp up its revenue base now as the repayment schedule for many of the costly loans taken recently would begin then, said eminent economist Debapriya Bhattacharya yesterday.

As his name was called out, Ahad Ali stepped inside the courtroom and stood in the dock with both hands pressed together in a gesture of mercy, staring at the judge with pleading eyes.