Ten crore. That is the amount of money which resulted in the unravelling of numerous money-grab schemes at Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH).

Magnificent thermal baths designed to be the jewel of Pompeii but destroyed by a volcanic eruption before they could be completed opened to visitors for the first time on Monday after a painstaking excavation.

A large Bangladesh flag and a pennant emblazoned with the word “Dhaka” hung on the wall of her dorm at Emory University in Atlanta, USA.

The 17th span of the under-construction Padma Bridge was installed between its 22th and 23rd pillars yesterday.

Amid a rise in onion prices, the use of the cooking ingredient has dropped significantly in the restaurants in Dinajpur.

Delhi Police today said they arrested three people, who were allegedly inspired by the global terror outfit ISIS, and averted terror strikes in the national capital and at a village fair in Assam.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them.

The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog yesterday defended a report into an alleged chlorine attack in Syria, despite allegations of a cover-up by a whistleblower.

Two alleged criminals -- a drug dealer and a robber -- were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Sunamganj early yesterday.

Hong Kong’s deeply unpopular leader yesterday vowed to “listen humbly” to voters after the pro-democracy camp scored a crushing victory in community-level elections that revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence.

The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) yesterday quizzed 14 onion importers to “gather information” on sales and stock of the cooking ingredient.

France yesterday announced new measures to combat violence against women by their partners or ex-partners, seeking to toughen up the law as concern grows over the number of femicide murders in the country.

Police in Egypt have released three news editors detained on Sunday in a swoop on local news outlet Mada Masr, the independent organisation said on its website.

Brazilian prosecutors have started a new investigation into the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he embezzled public money by hiring “ghost employees,” officials said.

Police arrested a youth on charge of attempting to rape a five-year-old girl in Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday.

At least 44 students were injured after the ceiling of a madrasa and orphanage building collapsed on them at Matlab Uttar upazila on Saturday night.

At least three people have been trampled to death by wild elephants in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning.

Record numbers of people yesterday voted in Hong Kong district council elections that the city’s pro-democracy movement hopes will pile pressure on the Beijing-backed government to heed their demands after months of violent protest.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday arrested 32 people on charge of trespassing into Bangladesh from India yesterday.

The BNP will not seek any permission from the government to hold rallies in Dhaka as the government is “not elected by the people’s vote”, said the party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday.