The opposition MPs yesterday opposed the provision to appoint administrators in local government bodies, saying the provision is unconstitutional.

The prices of loose soybean and palm oil have gone up by Tk 150-200 per maund at Chattogram’s Khatunganj wholesale market overnight for a supply crisis although the importers maintain there is no shortage at their end.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against former chief justice SK Sinha and his brother Ananta Sinha for laundering about Tk 2.35 crore ($280,000).

Three people were killed after their motorcycle crashed into a roadside tree in Dinajpur’s Nawabganj upazila early yesterday, said police.

Police yesterday arrested a college teacher and a landlord on charges of raping a college student in Sherpur town on Wednesday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit, this time by April 20, the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

Nato is not seeing a pull-back of Russian forces in Ukraine and expects “additional offensive actions,” the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.

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.

Businesses yesterday called for policy assistance, policy continuity and corporate tax cuts in the upcoming budget for fiscal 2022-23 to help them thrive in the post-pandemic world. 

Two UK Supreme Court judges yesterday resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, as the government in London said it was “no longer tenable” for its judges to serve in the former colony.

Crude bomb explosions and violent clashes took place last night as students of Dhaka College and Teachers’ Training College attacked each other.

At least five people took part in the killing of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, in the capital’s Shahjahanpur a week ago.

Helena Khatun, 25, was about to give birth to her third child.

Pensioners will receive their monthly allowance on time under the Universal Pension Scheme by way of electronic fund transfer thanks to a clause in the draft National Pension Authority Act-2022.

The government is going to undertake a major survey to assess the animals that Bengal tigers prey on in the Sundarbans and also monitor the current situation of the habitat under a new project of the forest department.

Fuel prices would rise further in the international market if the Russia-Ukraine war prolongs, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

With the kind of year Bangladesh have already had, it is only logical to say that the Mominul Haque-led side will back themselves to break further ground by sealing a maiden Test win on South African soil when the two sides meet in the first of two-Test series at Kingsmead in Durban today.

About one in ten mobile financial services users said they have been victims of fraud, found a survey, underscoring the need for boosting the security of the platform to thwart social engineering.

Dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul was stabbed to death by muggers in the capital as he tried to resist them on Sunday, said police.