With just one week left for the Narayanganj City Corporation election, the political equations for the two major mayor contenders remain unclear.

Law enforcers yesterday arrested six people, including the prime accused, over the gang rape of two Garo schoolgirls in Mymensingh’s Haluaghat upazila 11 days ago.

A youth was killed when a fire swept through a part of Kaptan Bazar in the capital’s Gulistan early yesterday.

A member of the hijra community was stabbed to death in Jashore yesterday.

Bangladesh yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkey on counter-terrorism, security cooperation and prevention of drug trafficking.

Two pedestrians were killed and at least five others injured after a speedy bus ran over them near the toll plaza of Mayor Hanif Flyover in the capital’s Gulistan yesterday morning.

Polling officials made a mess of counting ballots at a voting centre in Shariatpur’s Naria upazila during the fifth phase of the union parishad polls on Wednesday, raising questions about the credibility of the election results.

Many of us know kalojeera or Nigella seeds from the time when our grandmother handed us a small cloth pouch filled with the black seeds to sniff -- for relief from a stuffy nose.

It has been 11 years since Felani, a Bangladeshi teenager, was shot dead by a member of India’s Border Security Force and left hanging from the barbed fence of the border along Kurigram, but her family is still waiting for justice.

The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Rob) yesterday became the latest political party to reject President Abdul Hamid’s invitation to a dialogue on the formation of the Election Commission.

Five people, including a child, were killed and seven others injured in two road crashes in Tangail’s Madhupur and Mirzapur upazilas yesterday.

India’s daily Covid-19 cases jumped to 117,100 yesterday, a five-fold increase in a week, and on course to overtake its previous infection peak as the fast-spreading Omicron becoming the dominant coronavirus variant across the country. 

The Roads and Highways Department has earth-filled about 26 acres of the Kuhelia river in Cox’s Bazar to build a two-lane road.

A six-month-old child died on Thursday as he along with his twin brother was allegedly driven out of a private hospital in the capital’s Shyamoli after their parents failed to pay the bills.

The more infectious Omicron variant of Covid-19 appears to produce less severe disease than the globally dominant Delta strain, but it should not be categorised as “mild”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.   

Holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum), popularly known as “tulsi”, is one of the most used medicinal herbs in Bangladesh.

The Supreme Court yesterday formed a two-member committee to look into allegations of corruption and irregularities in its Appellate and High Court divisions.

Myanmar has proposed to form a new joint committee with Bangladesh to settle the Rohingya verification issues, nearly three years after the two countries held a bilateral meeting on Rohingya repatriation.

At least 15 people were injured, including 10 bullet-hit, in post-polls violence in Satkhira’s Assasuni upazila yesterday.

Awami League mayor nominee Selina Hayat Ivy in her re-election campaign is highlighting her development activities while her main rival, independent runner and BNP leader Taimur Alam Khandakar, is trying to cash in on the anti-government sentiment by mobilising support from all opposition parties.