Four people were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday in two cases over hurling acid at three persons in Chattogram city and Rangunia upazila.

The BGB and Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) seized around 20kg gold in Jashore and Chattogram yesterday.

A youth was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend in Natore town yesterday afternoon.

A woman died after being hit by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation while she was crossing a road in the capital’s Mugda on Tuesday night.

The Supreme Court has declared that a High Court bench had illegally entertained a petition of Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, as she filed the plea while being a fugitive.

A week-long special campaign for administering Covid-19 booster jabs will start countrywide on June 4, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

Twenty-two public universities, including two new ones, have decided to hold integrated admission tests for 2021-22 academic session.

Israel signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates yesterday, its first with an Arab country, building on their US-brokered normalisation of diplomatic relations in 2020.

Bangladesh would not be buying crude oil from Western-sanctioned Russia as its refinery is configured to process only oil from the Arab countries, said Nasrul Hamid, the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources.

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.

Israel yesterday accused its arch-foe Iran of stealing classified documents from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it hide evidence of its nuclear programme.

China has made the second largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defence zone this year with Taipei reporting 30 jets entering the area, including more than 20 fighters.

Action will be taken against election officials found guilty of neglecting their duties, said Election Commissioner Md Alamgir yesterday.

Russian forces have seized control of half of eastern Ukraine’s key city of Severodonetsk, a senior official said yesterday, hours after EU leaders struck a watered-down deal to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow’s oil imports.

A local Awami League was hacked to death by unknown assailants in Lohagara, Narail, on Monday morning.

Police in Kalai, Joypurhat, arrested two men on charges of brokering deals between those needing a kidney transplant and those willing to donate a kidney.

A police officer, who was closed in March over allegations of bribery, was recently transferred to Barishal range.

The days of lengthy immigration formalities at Dhaka airport will soon be over as 27 electronic gates are set to become operational from June 7.

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored an order to stay at home and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation.

Dhaka has sought Delhi’s suggestions on how to purchase energy and wheat from Russia.