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.

As many as 1.6 million youths lost their jobs and about 20 million faced income loss for the pandemic, found a government study -- signifying the global public health crisis’s outsize economic consequences for Bangladesh’s younger population.

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.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday opened a world-class architecture, “Bangabandhu Military Museum”, in the capital to exhibit the country’s military history, heritage and success, particularly its incredible valour and bravery throughout the Liberation War.

Japan and Australia yesterday signed a “landmark” treaty to strengthen defence ties, saying the accord would contribute to regional stability, as China expands its military and economic clout. 

A woman was found dead in her house and her husband missing in Bandarban’s Rajbila area early yesterday.

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group came under fire Wednesday in Iraq and Syria but reported no casualties, in the latest of several attacks that Washington blamed on “Iran-backed groups”.

Edible oil prices will not be increased now, as the government yesterday decided to review the refiners’ proposal to hike prices of vegetable oil by Tk eight per litre from January 8, said a senior commerce ministry official yesterday.