Secondary schools are set to resume full-fledged in-person classes today – two years after the Covid-19-induced closures, online classes and limited scale operations.

An elderly man was beaten to death allegedly by his neighbours over a trivial matter in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj yesterday morning.

A Sylhet court yesterday fixed March 30 for the delivery of the verdict in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.

Bangladesh Railway’s online ticketing will remain suspended for five days from the early hours of March 21 to facilitate smooth handover of the ticketing job to a new vendor.

The body of Hadisur Rahman Arif, a naval engineer killed in a “missile attack” on the Bangladeshi ship Banglar Samriddhi in Ukraine on March 2, reached his Barguna home by an ambulance from Dhaka last night.

The High Court yesterday said monopoly and hoarding of daily essentials like soybean oil for profits is not acceptable.

More than 500 students and teachers of two government schools have been suffering immensely as local farmers dry and process tobacco leaves on their campus premises in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila.

An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: they have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000, while bringing into the world and raising four kids who are now adolescents.

Sharif Uddin, former deputy assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, filed a writ with the High Court yesterday challenging the dismissal from his job.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks in Istanbul yesterday, seeking a rapprochement between the neighbouring Nato members to the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Congress’s disastrous showing in the assembly elections to five states has added to a series of poor results, raising serious questions about the road ahead for India’s oldest party.

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V. Mantytskiy has slammed a section of Bangladesh media for what he said  “biased approach” in their coverage of the situation in Ukraine and Russia.

In the wake of media reports that China is setting up a missile maintenance facility in Bangladesh, Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming yesterday denied any such plan.

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to properly inquire into graft allegations against 17 Collective Bargaining Agency (CBA) leaders of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

Voting was underway in Turkmenistan yesterday for a tightly-controlled leadership election that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia’s first father-son succession.

With edible oil fast vanishing from retailers’ shelves in the wake of a supply crunch, a retired government official turned out to be on the list of hoarders after stockpiling 512 litres of soybean oil.

At least 12 buses of South Line Paribahan were burned to ashes in police custody in Faridpur town’s Goalchamat area yesterday.

A bomb exploded in front of the house of a journalist, vocal about justice for Tanwir Muhammad Taqi, in the city’s Alam Khan area around 3:00am yesterday. 

A family planning official strangled his nine-year-old daughter to death and then died by suicide in their home in Bangala union of Sirajganj’s Ullapara yesterday morning, OC Humayun Kabir of Ullapara Police Station said, quoting the victims’ family members.

Police were trying to arrest a 50-year-old man who allegedly raped a third-grader of a madrasa in Kurigram’s Rowmari upazila.