A 35-year-old man died and four others were critically injured as a wall collapsed at a construction site in Chhoto Bongram area of Godagari, Rajshahi, yesterday morning.

Most business owners have shut up shop and fled Ukraine’s Mikolaiv, but florist Angela Kalisnik continues to sell tulips and roses just a short drive away from the frontline.

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.

Left Democratic Alliance, a platform of left-leaning political parties, yesterday called a half-day general strike on March 28 protesting the price hike of daily essentials.

A woman died in a house fire in Cumilla’s Barura upazila early yesterday.

A college student drowned while bathing in the Bay of Bengal near the Sugandha Beach Point in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Within one and a half years into the dredging of the Charalkata river, the riverbed has filled up again at different points as sand and earth kept on the banks of the river got deposited to the riverbed in the rainy season.

Fleeing the horrors of war in Ukraine, Bangladeshis are finding new hope in other European countries.

The body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port, is expected to reach Dhaka on March 13 or 14, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam yesterday.

The Election Commission is all set to begin a series of talks with cross-section citizens from tomorrow.

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent “any potential spills” that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters.

Acne is a common disorder of the skin involving hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Most teens and young adults -- between the ages of 11 and 30 -- will have acne at some point.

More than 70 original Nasa photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).

Badal Khandaker went to Serbia in November last year with hopes of a well-paying job that would ensure a better life for his family back home.

Bangladesh has urged the Food and Agriculture Organization to set up a digital hub for the Asia-Pacific region so that developing countries can increase their agricultural production using modern technologies.