Swechchhasebak League men vandalised the Patuakhali district BNP office in the town’s College Road area and locked it yesterday morning, alleged the opposition party.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a female stone crushing plant worker from a wheat field in Panchagarh’s Golabari village.

Police arrested two people in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila early yesterday over raping a 16-year-old speech impaired girl.

Bangladesh yesterday reported 1.97 percent Covid-19 positivity rate against 16,370 tests, the lowest after December 23 last year when the positivity rate hit 1.95 percent against 19,624 tests.

Lawmaker Nadira Yeasmin Joly allegedly threatened to slap a district-level female officer over the phone for “inviting her late” to a Women’s Day programme at the Pabna DC office.

With respect to women on International Women’s Day, the High Court yesterday issued a suo moto rule questioning the discrimination against women in social status, jobs and inheritance.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan has been crowned with the International Women of Courage Award for her excellent contribution in leading the fight to conserve the environment and defend the dignity of marginalised people of Bangladesh.

Former Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque yesterday said Bangladesh’s position on the Russia-Ukraine issue was “neutral and fairly balanced” but it might require a review in the coming days.

The country has sufficient stock of edible oil to meet the demand till Ramadan, but the market remains volatile, said the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP).

No matter how hard Md Shaon, a day labourer, and his wife, a domestic help, work, their attempts fall short against the skyrocketing price to make ends meet for their family of five.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that people will continue to support her due to her motherly affection as a leader of the country.

Five Bangladeshis, reportedly detained at a camp in the Ukrainian city of Zhuravychi, said they were not being given enough food, their phones were seized and they were being tortured.

US President Joe Biden yesterday banned imports of Russian oil to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine as desperate civilians fled besieged cities and fresh fighting raged. 

A schoolboy was killed after a speeding truck hit him in Dinajpur’s Chirirbandar upazila yesterday, while a woman was killed in a separate road accident in Birampur upazila on Monday.

Born in Khulna’s Khalishpur in 1988, Shobha, earlier known as Shubho, began feeling out of place during her adolescence.

The central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate with fundamental flaws and jaw-dropping inadequacies, reflects extremely negatively on how this project was planned, designed and implemented, said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the environment, forest and climate change ministry.

Two primary school students were injured while playing with an abandoned crude bomb in Natiabari area of Bera, Pabna, yesterday.

Lithuania has changed its decision to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh as the latter abstained from voting in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine.

In a chilly winter morning, a teenage girl was busy serving customers with tea at a roadside stall in Tangail Sadar upazila’s Khudirampur area.

Police arrested a 58-year-old man for raping a nine-year-old girl in Durgapur, Netrakona.