At least eight people were injured in a clash between the followers of two rival chairman candidates at Khagaria Union Parishad polls in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila yesterday.

A woman in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila has been sued for becoming a voter for the second time using a fake name and age.

A Kushtia court sent a female office assistant of Kushtia’s Daulatpur upazila sub-registrar (land) office to jail yesterday.

Police arrested a union parishad member and his two cohorts on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in beating up three youths on theft charge in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila.

Bangladesh has expressed dismay over Myanmar’s slow pace verification of the Rohingya and offered the later all cooperation under three bilateral instruments to expeditiously complete the verification process.

Kurdish forces yesterday retook full control of a prison in northeast Syria where Islamic State group jihadists had been holed up since attacking it six days earlier.

The government hopes the US will lift sanctions on Rab if it is provided with accurate information, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told parliament yesterday.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday dismissed the 2021 Corruption Perception Index, in which Bangladesh ranked 147 out of 180, saying the report is based on wrong data.

The health directorate will soon publish an updated version of the Covid-19 clinical guideline to combat the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as it is the main reason behind the ongoing surge in cases.

The risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the WHO said late Tuesday, with the numbers of new Covid-19 cases hitting another record high last week.

Four female workers of Uttara EPZ died when a train hit a battery-run three-wheeler in Nilphamari Sadar upazila yesterday, while five people were killed as a bus rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bogura’s Sherpur.

The move to bring money launderers to book is not making any headway as the Anti-Corruption Commission and different government agencies have failed to submit information on the offenders, their deposits in overseas banks, and properties abroad before the High Court despite its orders to do so.

Police high-ups yesterday started discussing with their chief a list of over 100 demands, including a replacement of long-barrel firearms with short arms for on-duty policemen, and the establishment of an independent cyber unit and a cyber and IT training academy to cope with rising cybercrimes.

A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by two men in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday.

A prisoner, convicted in multiple cheque forgery cases, died in Dinajpur jail on Tuesday night.

The municipal mayor of Moheshkhali in Cox’s Bazar was sent to jail yesterday in an attempted murder case of freedom fighter Amzad Hossain.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday extended the “warmest wishes” to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and the people of India on the occasion of the country’s Republic Day.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 1.80 lakh yaba pills worth Tk 5.40 crore from the Naf river along Kharangkhali area in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

The High Court yesterday allowed e-commerce platform Evaly to appoint any well reputed firm of its choice to carry out an audit of the company.

Canada’s foreign ministry was hit by a cyberattack last week that is still preventing diplomats from accessing certain online services, federal cyber security agencies confirmed on Monday.