Police yesterday arrested the editor of Dainik Parbatta Chattogram, a Rangamati-based daily, in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act.

Russia yesterday reported its forces had taken full control of residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine’s flashpoint city of Severodonetsk, after Kyiv said its troops were fighting on in the eastern hub despite being outnumbered.

The Turkish man, sent to a hospital from Dhaka airport because he has rashes on his body, has no monkeypox symptoms, said a top official of the health directorate.

The Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki yesterday expressed hopes that the government would do everything necessary to ensure next year’s national election is free, fair, and better than the last one held in 2018.

She lost her mother at six.

As the garment workers continued their protests yesterday demanding pay increases, the government hinted at forming a minimum wage board to fix a new pay structure for them as soon as possible.

Bangladesh’s newspaper industry is going through a crisis because of laws that restrict freedom of speech and the precarious state of the economy, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.

The parliamentary standing committee on information and broadcasting ministry was yesterday given 60 more days to scrutinise the much-debated Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill 2022.

Four people of a family, including a five-year-old, were killed in a landslide in Satjami village of Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila early yesterday.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday denied bail to ruling Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim in a corruption case in which the High Court upheld his conviction and 10 years’ jail sentence.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced a Jahangirnagar University student to seven years’ imprisonment in a case under the ICT Act for making derogatory remarks on Facebook about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, a respected monitor said yesterday, adding that the notorious ADF militia were suspected.

The government has cancelled the registration of non-governmental organisation Odhikar, amidst an ongoing legal battle in this regard.

Officials in British prime minister Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party expect a challenge to his leadership this week and have pencilled in a vote for Wednesday, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured early yesterday in a Tennessee city after gunfire erupted and fleeing vehicles struck bystanders, police said.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday announced that there will be no Junior School Certificate and equivalent Junior Dakhil Certificate exams this year.

The number of ‘new poor’ in Bangladesh has not dropped off despite the economy reopening due to the runaway inflation between January and May, found a recent study.

Four staffers of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

Rafael Nadal won a 14th French Open and record-extending 22nd Grand Slam title on Sunday with a straight-sets rout of Casper Ruud to become the oldest male champion at Roland Garros.