The appointment of a former additional secretary as treasurer of Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur has irked teachers of public universities.

Freedom fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Anup Bhattacharya passed away at a city hospital around 7:30pm yesterday. He was 77.

A heavy fight broke out today at Teliapara, Sylhet. Pakistani Army in the guise of Indian BSF breached the defences of Bangladesh force and were in firing position.

Detectives took around eight years just to analyse footage and collect evidence of the mayhem Hefajat carried in 2013 as it was a “big incident”, said AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

The government approved a proposal to extend the deadline for the much-talked-about Padma bridge project to June 23, 2022.

Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and six others were wounded along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border yesterday in an ambush by militants from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military said, as the soldiers were doing controversial border fencing work.

The country’s apex trade body FBCCI has constructed a multi-storey building in Old Dhaka’s Hatkhola without an approved design and that’s why it could not use the high-rise for a long time.

Doctors Without Borders yesterday described “alarming” malnutrition in parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region and said the situation was likely to worsen with the coming rainy season.

US climate envoy John Kerry said Tuesday island nations faced a situation “beyond existential” due to climate change, as he called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and coal plant financing.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed over the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.

Police yesterday arrested a man for raping a minor girl in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur.

One hundred and sixty Bangladeshi migrant workers, including a woman, returned home yesterday from war-torn Libya under a repatriation programme arranged by the Bangladesh mission there.

Forest fires are still burning in Sarankhola Range of the Sundarbans.

Admission tests of public universities would be delayed due to the country’s coronavirus situation.

Two people in Lalmonirhat were arrested on Monday night in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on charges of gambling.

The Pakistani government said today that news of slaughter carried out by Awami League members in East Pakistan before March 25 “has been kept strictly secret for fear of reprisals in West Pakistan”.

Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.

Authorities of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) are likely to start installation of rail track on the Mawa-Bhanga section from July in a major development for the fast-track project being implemented by Bangladesh Railway.

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College’s forensic medicine department have completed the primary post-mortem on the body of female college student, which was recovered from her Gulshan flat on April 26.

Hefajat-e-Islam last night demanded release of “Ulema and religious-minded general people” who were arrested over violence by the Islamist organisation in March during demonstrations protesting Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.