Soaring global food and energy prices have forced 71 million people into poverty in the world’s poorest countries, according to a United Nations Development Program report published yesterday.

A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals in the party in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila yesterday.

Russian forces yesterday consolidated gains in eastern Ukraine and probed the defences of potential new targets, as Ukrainian forces raised their national flag on a recaptured Black Sea island in a symbol of defiance against Moscow.

Locals yesterday found the body of the editor of an online news portal on the bank of the Gorai river in Jaduboyra area of Kumarkhali, Kushtia.

A 28-year-old man was killed after being hit on the head by his elder brother in Khulna’s Khanjahan Ali area early yesterday.

Two men were sent to jail yesterday for raping a 14-year-old at the Karatoa riverbank in Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat upazila.

Biman has suspended three officials and staffers, including a principal engineer, for their involvement in the recent collision between two aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s hangar.

The pandemic-induced school closures took a heavy toll on education as 80 percent of class-8 students suffered learning losses in the subject of Bangla.

Three police officers were hit by pallets during a gunfight with a gang of robbers in a hilly area in Padua union of Rangunia, Chattogram early yesterday, police said.

A farmer died after coming in contact with a live wire while turning on an electric motor to irrigate a seedbed in Shimulbari area of Phulbari, Kurigram.

Clashes between the two groups of local Awami League left at least 20 people injured and properties damaged in Rangabali upazila.

Cabinet ministers gathered in Boris Johnson’s official residence yesterday to tell him to quit as British leader after he insisted he would not stand down in the face of a mounting rebellion within his party.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the failure of officers to save cattle-carrying trucks from being extorted.

A group of 15 to 20 people murdered Faysal Uddin, former joint general secretary of Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila Chhatra League, on Sunday.

The European Parliament yesterday approved a contentious EU proposal giving a sustainable finance label to investments in gas and nuclear power, sparking claims of “greenwashing” by environmental lobbyists.

Sheer negligence of the owners of BM Container Depot Ltd and lax monitoring and enforcement of laws by the government authorities concerned led to the fatal blast at the Sitakunda depot on June 4, a probe has found.

The biggest hajj pilgrimage since the Covid pandemic began yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of worshippers at Islam’s holiest site in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah.

A special team of Kolkata police has arrested Faisal Ahmed who was sentenced to death for the killing of blogger and writer Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet.

Ashraful Islam Jitu, the key accused in the college teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker murder case, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he beat his teacher with a cricket stump.

Thousands of people on Australia’s east coast fled their homes yesterday as torrential rains tracked north after unleashing floods in Sydney that submerged communities, roads and bridges under mud-brown water.