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.

Freedom of expression continued to be heavily curtailed by draconian laws in Bangladesh in 2021, Amnesty International said.

Natural disasters like floods, drought, cyclones and river erosion have caused almost Tk 30,000 crore in damages a year between 2015 and 2020, found a first-of-its-kind government survey.

Bangladesh is looking into cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s request for another loan of $250 million but no decision has been made yet in this regard, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

Bangladesh and UN agencies yesterday presented their Joint Response Plan 2022, seeking to raise $881 million in humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas and the Bangladeshi host communities.

It is painful and embarrassing that Dhaka is one of the most unlivable cities and the most polluted one in the world, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Russia said it would scale down fighting around two Ukrainian cities following “meaningful” talks with Ukraine yesterday, as officials raised the prospect of a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents.

Shanghai yesterday recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases as panic-buying in the Chinese city of about 25 million stripped supermarket shelves bare.

Police recovered the body of an elderly man from a school in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila yesterday morning.

An assistant teacher of Begumpur Government Primary School in Chuadanga has been suspended over marrying off her 10th grader son to a class-5 schoolgirl.

The names of top officials of the central bank, including former and current deputy governors and executive directors, have come up in the embezzlement of Tk 2,500 crore from International Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (ILFSL).

Police have arrested three men, including an air conditioner technician, over the murder of a woman in the capital’s Sabujbagh four days ago.

The education ministry yesterday directed secondary schools and colleges to remain open 24 days into Ramadan, which is likely to begin on April 2.

Work hours at government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions during Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm.

Turkey yesterday said a second mine which could have come from Ukraine was discovered off its coast near Bulgaria, adding that experts had been sent to defuse it.

The Jatiya Party and BNP MPs yesterday engaged in a debate over the rising prices of essentials and deterioration of law and order with their counterparts in the ruling party during the 17th session at parliament.

A primary school teacher in Chuadanga recently arranged the “marriage” of her 10th grader son with a fifth grader of her school.