A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced an Imam to life term imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl in Taraganj upazila in 2020.

A mild heatwave is sweeping through the districts of Pabna, Chuadanga, Khulna, Patuakahli, and Bagerhat.

After capping the export of sugar from June 1, India is likely to consider a similar measure for rice export in order to ensure adequate availability in the domestic market and prevent a price hike, sources said.

The government will give launderers a special scope to bring back the money they had taken out of the country.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed yesterday that Vladimir Putin will neither win the Ukraine war nor dictate the terms for peace, as Russian troops made fresh attempts to take a key eastern city.

Three tourists were killed and six others injured as a microbus carrying them crashed into a roadside ditch in Bandarban’s Thanchi upazila yesterday morning.

One in four healthcare professionals engaged in treating Covid patients in Bangladesh had suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a government study has found.

A tight-knit Latino community in Texas was wracked with grief yesterday after a teen in body armour marched into an elementary school and killed 19 small children and two teachers, in the latest spasm of deadly gun violence in America.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has appealed to the neighbouring countries, including India, to take care of the Rohingyas they are hosting and not to put an additional burden on Bangladesh.

The Parliament Secretariat is returning Tk 80 crore to the government, thanks to fewer parliament sessions, foreign tours, and training programmes amid the coronavirus pandemic, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed authorities concerned to pay attention to environment and ecology while taking up any development project.

The Anti-Corruption Commission arrested a government official while taking a bribe in Dinajpur yesterday.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the government has taken necessary steps to ensure the best practices of the Digital Security Act, as this law has been misused and abused “to some extent”.

Police arrested a youth in Savar’s Kalma area on Tuesday night over the gang rape of a 25-year-old woman in the upazila three days ago.

A Chhatra League activist was sued along with four to five unnamed people on Tuesday night over assaulting journalist Moin Uddin Monju in Sylhet city’s Chowhatta Point on Monday afternoon.

A police constable was sued in Feni on Tuesday over raping a 22-year-old woman after promising to marry her.

A senior secretary embarked on a study tour in Europe just before retiring from his job.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat to jail again after he surrendered before it, seeking bail in a corruption case.

Police recovered the body of a woman from her house in Kushtia Sadar upazila’s Kamalapur area yesterday morning.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the World Health Organization, was re-elected yesterday with overwhelming support after running unopposed for a second term.