Renowned journalist and lyricist KG Mustofa died last night at his Azimpur residence. 

Police yesterday rescued a woman who was molested and tortured allegedly by three youths in Chattogram’s Akbershah area.

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Gangadhardi village in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila yesterday.

Israeli forces yesterday destroyed the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli settler last year, sparking clashes.

Amid widespread criticism over the suspension of a travelling ticket examiner who fined three individuals travelling without tickets and claiming to be related to Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, the minister yesterday said he did not know whether they were indeed his relatives.

Voicing deep concerns over the loss of lives in road accidents during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday said no effective steps have been taken to reduce road crashes.

The 161st anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore is being observed in the country today after muted celebrations in the last two years due to the pandemic.

A day after instructing people to “beat criminals to death” if police failed to bring them to book, Awami League lawmaker for Noakhali-1 HM Ibrahim retracted his statement saying it was a “slip of tongue”.

At least seven persons, including two siblings, were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Natore yesterday.

The well-marked low over the Southeast Bay and adjoining South Andaman Sea moved slightly north-westward and intensified into a depression.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon last month shattered the record for April, destroying more than 1,000 square kilometers of the world’s biggest rainforest, nearly double the previous high, according to official figures.

Clashes between two rival gangs in the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince have claimed the lives of at least 75 people, including women and children, in less than two weeks, the UN said Friday.

Two people were arrested over raping a female student of grade-III in Salikha upazila of Magura. 

An Afghan insurgent group led by the son of late anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud yesterday claimed to have seized three northern districts from the hardline Islamists, after announcing a wide military offensive.

A lawsuit filed by former US president Donald Trump seeking to reinstate his banned Twitter account was tossed out Friday by a federal judge in California.

Locals yesterday found the body of a college student thought to be raped and murdered at her home in Panchbibi, Joypurhat.

Amid reports of more losses to Russian forces, US officials have said they shared information about Russian troops and the location of the Russian warship Moskva with Ukraine prior to its sinking last month, a fresh demonstration of the close intelligence support Kyiv is receiving from Washington.

Locals have detained four youths with local weapons and handed them over to the police while they were trying to stab a youth in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat.

A Jhenidah court yesterday sent two youths to jail over raping a seventh-grader in Shailakupa upazila.

Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants of a rural part of the occupied West Bank in an area which Israel has designated for military exercises.