Ragging in the dormitories of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) had been going on for a long time and many victim students became depressed and mentally imbalanced, probes have revealed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Madrid, Spain tomorrow morning to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) to be held from December 2-13 under the UN framework convention on climate change.

With onion prices still high, various seasonal vegetables have also become dearer, hitting consumers in the capital hard.

British police yesterday shot dead a man who had strapped a fake bomb to his body and stabbed a number of people in what they said was a terrorism incident in the London Bridge area of the capital.

The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi youth in Dona border area of Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Singapore authorities Friday ordered Facebook to correct an article on a fringe news site containing “scurrilous accusations” of election rigging, ramping up their use of a controversial law against misinformation.

An ambush by Islamic State jihadists did not cause a collision between two French army helicopters which left 13 soldiers dead in Mali, France’s military chief of staff said Friday.

Protest leaders in Colombia on Thursday urged President Ivan Duque to include them in negotiations aimed at ending demonstrations that have rocked his right-wing government.

Turkey signed a military deal late Wednesday with Libya’s UN-recognised government following a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, his office said.

Water transport workers are going to start a countrywide indefinite strike from early Saturday to press home their 11-point demand, including implementation of the pay scale of 2016.

Fifteen loaded cargo vessels have remained stranded in the Padma and the Jamuna for at least four days due to poor navigability.

China yesterday threatened retaliation against Washington after US President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, just as the world’s top two economies edge towards a trade truce.

Prices of onion at Khatunganj, one of the biggest wholesale essentials markets, saw a downward trend in the last three days as supply increased.

Brac founder and Chair Emeritus Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was admitted to a city hospital on Wednesday evening after he fell sick, said a Brac statement yesterday.

The body of Babulal, who was killed in an airstrike in Libya on November 18, reached home yesterday.

Rakibul Hasan Regan, a death row convict in the Holey Artisan café attack case, carried the prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo to the court from jail, police found in primary investigation.

Despite incurring losses, the Rangpur Sugar Mills Ltd in Gaibandha is increasing production to make sugar, a move which according to the Santals is aimed at stopping them from returning to their ancestral land.

Bangladesh last year had 70 percent less deaths in terrorist attacks than the previous year, says a new global study.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) together with Bangladesh would celebrate the “Mujib Borsho”.

International media prominently covered the verdict in the 2016 Holey Artisan case in which seven militants were sentenced to death.