A team of Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday recovered the body of a Chinese national who went missing after a tugboat capsized at the Matarbari channel in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

Dhaka is facing pressing problems in supplying affordable, safe and nutritious food to its 20 million-strong population, experts said yesterday.

Police arrested a lawyer in Bagerhat on Friday for allegedly raping one of his female clients.

The Thai government yesterday hailed “significant progress” in the latest talks with the main group fighting an insurgency in Thailand’s Muslim deep south after the sides agreed to stop violence during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.

Mali’s army said Friday that it had killed 203 combatants in an operation in the centre of Sahel state, an apparent uptick in violence in the conflict-torn country.

Sri Lanka yesterday declared a 36-hour nationwide curfew and deployed troops backed with sweeping new powers under a state of emergency to quell protests against the president, his relatives and even his most trusted shaman.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will not operate a direct flight on Dhaka-Toronto route considering that it is not commercially viable.

Amid political turmoil, Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry yesterday said that a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Imran Khan had been reported by security agencies.

Eminent recital artiste Hasan Arif,  general secretary of Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, passed away around 1:50pm yesterday at the capital’s Bangladesh Specialised Hospital.

Bangladesh were left undone by South Africa’s off-spinner Simon Harmer, who picked up all four wickets in the Tigers’ first innings, as South Africa gained the upper-hand following Bangladesh’s strong comeback with the ball earlier on Day 2 in Durban yesterday.

Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic variation among the world’s 7.9 billion people.

The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested another suspect in the murders of Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and college student Samia Afran Jamal Prity.

Ukrainian attack helicopters executed a low-flying pre-dawn raid on Russian territory yesterday, a Russian official said, eluding air defenses to strike a fuel depot and signalling Kyiv’s ability to broaden the field of the war.

Police recovered the body of a man from Chuadanga’s Alamdanga yesterday, four days after he went missing.

Police rescued a schoolgirl from Narayanganj who was abducted from ​​ Patuakhali’s Rangabali around two months ago.

A BGB team seized 99 gold bars, weighing around 12.5kg, from a man in the district’s Moheshpur upazila yesterday morning.

Three police members, including a sub-inspector, were injured as drug peddlers attacked them in Habiganj’s Chunarughat on Thursday night.

European Union Special Envoy for the Indo-Pacific Gabriele Visentin has said their strategy is all about “cooperation, not confrontation”.

Tangail Awami League members attacked Khan Ahmed Shubho, an AL lawmaker of Tangail-7 (Mirzapur), after an upazila unit party conference yesterday afternoon.

A ward councillor assaulted a secondary school headmaster for not allowing him to keep construction materials on Lahini Secondary School grounds in Kushtia municipality yesterday.