A man has been sued over raping a schoolgirl in Feni.

The first trial on US soil of an alleged major figure in the Islamic State (IS) group -- an accused member of the kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” -- will begin in earnest Wednesday near Washington.

Iran has once again denied women entry to a football stadium to watch an international match, leaving hundreds of ticketed fans locked out, Iranian media said.

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.

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.

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.

Detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has skipped three days of her trial in a junta court after Covid-19 was detected among her staff and she was placed in quarantine, a source with knowledge of the case said yesterday.

At least 20 people were injured as miscreants hurled crude bombs on the workers of Benapole Land Port in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila, triggering a clash over the responsibility of the port’s cargo handling work yesterday.

Investigators are yet to find a satisfactory answer from the alleged shooter on the motive and mastermind behind the recent double murder.

The Payment and Settlement Systems Bill 2022 was placed in parliament yesterday with a provision to punish top bank officials for fraudulence committed digitally.

A court in Lalmonirhat yesterday sentenced Ruhul Amin Babu, a member of banned militant outfit JMB, to life in prison.