In a rejoinder to a report published on Wednesday in The Daily Star headlined “2 jailed over rape attempt on Aussie tourist”, Mermaid Beach Resort yesterday said it was wrongly mentioned as the scene of the crime.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver to jail in a case filed in connection with raping a female spinning mill worker.

The Minimum Wage Board has submitted a draft report to the government, proposing a 62 percent hike in the minimum wages of staffers and workers of the private road transport sector.

Radio Pakistan broadcasts the resignation announcement of Pakistan President Yahya Khan. He will resign handing over the power. Pakistan People’s Party leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is on his way home from New York. He might be the next head of government.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday declined to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) but agreed to examine its constitutional validity.

Winter is here. The whole country began to feel the chill as temperatures began falling since yesterday.

A joint delegation of Myanmar and the Asean yesterday met a group of some 40 Rohingya representatives to convince them to return to Rakhine, from where they fled a brutal military crackdown in 2017.

Russia yesterday dismissed a French newspaper report claiming its spies had operated from a base in the French Alps, saying it was a conspiracy theory aimed at smearing Moscow.

A suspended constable of Benapole Port Police Station was arrested in the capital’s Mirpur area on Tuesday for reportedly giving confidential information.

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the pro-Awami League student organisation, last night relieved 21 members of its central executive committee of their posts.

A Moroccan coastguard vessel on Monday retrieved seven bodies and rescued 70 migrants whose boat got into difficulty in the Mediterranean, a military source said.

Muslim-majority Indonesia will deploy nearly 200,000 security personnel nationwide ahead of Christmas to guard against potential terror attacks, police said yesterday.

“Please give me a pillow, I want to sleep with my parents,” 12-year-old Arafat moaned in pain when police rescued him from a sugarcane field in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila early Monday. He had been lying there with a severe head injury for about 12 hours.

At least 15 people, including Ducsu Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur, were injured in a clash between the activists of Muktijuddho Moncho and Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad on Dhaka University campus yesterday.

Forty-nine journalists were killed across the world in 2019, Reporters Without Borders said yesterday, the lowest death toll in 16 years.

A court in Cox’s Bazar yesterday sent two youths to jail on charge of attempting to rape an Australian national in Himchhari area of Ramu upazila on Monday.

Two high officials of the Bangladesh government -- Ruhul Quddus, newly appointed secretary general, and Abdul Khaleque, inspector general of police -- reach Dhaka. Cheers and gunfire are heard every now and then. The freedom fighters are celebrating their victory.

The government-sponsored programme that promised to procure Aman paddy directly from marginal farmers has been operating at a slow pace for half a month in eight districts of Rangpur division.

Bangladesh is far from practising ethical recruitment, which requires a zero-cost migration policy and transparency in the entire migration cycle, and also ensures that migrants do not face exploitation, according to researchers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she was still looking for an answer as to where all Awami League leaders had been when Bangabandhu was assassinated and why none of them came forward to play a courageous role against the killing.