The High Court, in a rule, yesterday asked the authorities why a special compartment should not be allocated for female passengers and separate reserved seats for children, physically challenged passengers, and senior citizens in every train for ensuring their privacy and security.

A Dhaka court yesterday extended the bail of Ron Haque Sikder, managing director of Sikder Group, until April 11 in a case filed over abducting, torturing, and opening fire on two Exim Bank officials over a loan permission.

After years’ of process, 10 locomotives bought from Hyundai Rotem reached Bangladesh without the alternators specified in the contract, but the railways minister is now questioning the order itself.

Russia and China unveiled plans Tuesday for a joint lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to recapture the glory of its space pioneering days of Soviet times, and Beijing gears up its own extraterrestrial ambitions.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has assured that all Bangladeshi migrants -- regular or irregular -- would be vaccinated and that they won’t be forcibly sent back to Bangladesh.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked yesterday by about 4-5 people in Nandigram where she had gone to file her nomination for the upcoming Assembly elections, reports said.

One of former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration rules - barring people deemed likely to need government benefits from legal permanent residency - suffered what could be a mortal blow on Tuesday when the US Supreme Court dismissed litigation over it at the urging of President Joe Biden’s administration.

One in three women have already suffered physical violence or sexual abuse, the World Health Organization said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic was deepening the problem.

The UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider “further measures.”

With the Covid infection rate on the rise, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the people to follow the health safety protocols to check the spread of the virus in the country.

When parents and teachers alike bemoan that children and young students know little about the Liberation War, one freedom fighter has taken it upon himself to be a roving educator on the battles of 1971.

Rajshahi city Awami League yesterday sought approval from the government to file a sedition case against Mizanur Rahman Minu, an adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, over his remarks on “repeating 1975 assassination”.

Myanmar security forces quickly snuffed out sporadic anti-junta protests yesterday after hundreds of young activists who had been trapped overnight in a district of its biggest city Yangon were able to get out.

Two men suspected to be yaba smugglers were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Some 343 people involved with Mass Rapid Transit Line-6, the first metro rail project in the country, have so far been infected with Covid-19. None of them died.

Despite repeated use of courier services by transnational syndicates to smuggle drugs through Bangladesh to a third country, the government has turned down a proposal to use the National Identity Card server to verify the identity of the product sender.

A college teacher has been languishing in Kushtia District Jail for 18 days. His crime was that he made a comment on social media about a local Awami League leader.

In a press statement issued on March 10, 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman urged the UN Secretary General to take action to avert the threat of genocide in East Pakistan.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed 10 cases against 37 people, including former managing director of now-defunct NRB Global Bank PK Halder, for laundering about Tk 782 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).

Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, founder chairman of Padma Bank, has accused incumbent Chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat of misusing Tk 100 crore from the troubled lender.