A Jamalpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of killing an eight-year-old madrasa student in the district’s Sadar upazila on Saturday.

Two mass shootings in the United States have left 29 people dead within 24 hours, the latest such attacks in a nation torn over how to tackle gun violence.

Public health professionals in several districts have demanded an urgent supply of dengue detection kits as they are struggling to deal with a surge of patients due to the kit shortage.

Police last night arrested Chattogram Awami League leader Didarul Alam Masum in a case filed over the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Sudipto Biswas.

A US federal judge on Friday struck down one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to curtail asylum claims, ruling that the government could not reject migrants who had crossed the border illegally.

Narayanganj police yesterday arrested five people for raping a woman in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj. All five confessed to the crime, police said.

A VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) card seeker was killed and 10 others injured when a chaotic situation broke out during the distribution of the cards and VGF rice yesterday afternoon.

At least 29 Bangladeshi hajj aspirants have died so far in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Trees and plants on many acres in one of the country’s oldest reserve forests, Sita Pahar, have been razed in Rangamati but the authorities have virtually done nothing to stop it.

Washington wants to quickly deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper yesterday said in a move likely to anger China.

In public interest, the health ministry has decided to reinstate a top child cancer specialist -- one of only three such experts in the country -- who was to be transferred from Chattogram Medical College Hospital to Rangamati Medical College Hospital (RmMC).

Three suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

US rapper A$AP Rocky and two of his friends were released from custody in Sweden on Friday three days into their highly publicised assault trial, a development hailed by President Donald Trump who had tried to intervene in the case.

The recent rise in dengue cases in India’s West Bengal is the result of the outbreak in Bangladesh, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed. “As Bangladesh is our neighbour, if something happens there, its effect crosses the border,” she told a programme in Jadavpur on Thursday.

Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering yesterday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains.

The Roads and Highways Department has demolished over 350 illegal establishments beside Dhaka-Pabna highway in Pabna in the last two days.

China yesterday said it would not be blackmailed and warned of retaliation after US President Donald Trump vowed to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply escalating a trade row between the world’s biggest economies.

Myanmar has expressed dismay after Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Rohingyas faced “massacre or genocide”.

Tempted by the lucrative offer of chauffeuring in Kuwait, 30 jobseekers contacted a travel agency in the capital after noticing their advertisement in a newspaper in February.

A proposed peace deal would see the United States withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for promises from the Taliban that it would renounce Al-Qaeda, US media reported on Thursday.