The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against Oviur Rahman Khan, managing director of Apple GlobalTel Communication Ltd, for laundering around Tk 463.37 crore abroad.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Biman Bangladesh Airlines to take effective measures to provide world class passenger and cargo services to make it more profitable.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday told gas exporters to avoid any “cruel” sanctions such as those imposed by the United States on Tehran, and his government said any revival of Iran’s 2015 nuclear accord with world powers must lift such curbs.

UN rights experts have called for an end to “misogynistic and sectarian” online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment.

The shopkeepers of the Nilkhet book market that caught fire in the capital on Tuesday are in a miserable state after losing their businesses to the blaze.

The High Court yesterday rejected three petitions seeking cancellation of charges framed against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol by a tribunal in three cases filed under the Digital Security Act.

The Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) will file cases against retailers found selling essentials at an inflated price ahead of Ramadan, as the government looks to rein in prices from spiralling out of the means for the poor and the fixed-income people.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday framed charges against two people, including Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as “Shishu Bokta”, in a case filed with Motijheel Police Station under the Digital Security Act.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday said the government will vaccinate children under 12 if WHO recommends.

Father of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, also father-in-law of former SP Babul Akter, yesterday filed a no-confidence petition with a Chattogram court on the PBI’s final report in the Mitu murder case.

The ministry of environment, forest and climate change yesterday decided to lodge criminal cases against those involved with the death of 11 zebras at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in recent weeks.

Hong Kong’s population must undergo three rounds of compulsory coronavirus testing, the city’s leader said yesterday, as she confirmed mainland Chinese officials were stepping up oversight of the financial hub’s response to its worst outbreak yet.

The UN warned yesterday that authorities and aid workers were racing against the clock to protect people as Madagascar braces for its fourth tropical storm in as many weeks.

To many, he was the beloved, quirky astrologer who wrote “Apnar Rashi” for the popular daily Prothom Alo, which was often the feature they most looked forward to.

The struggle of UAE-bound passengers at the Dhaka airport islikely to be over as the Gulf country issued a new travel advisory yesterday withdrawing the mandatory provision for Covid RT-PCR test at the airport within six hours before departure.

Bangladesh could decide this week to lodge a case with a US court to fight that country’s sanctions against Rab and seven of its current and former officials.

UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said yesterday.

Russia faced a furious global diplomatic and economic backlash yesterday after President Vladimir Putin ordered his “peacekeeping” forces into Ukraine to secure two breakaway regions, but division among European allies raised questions how far West can go against Moscow.

Bangladesh host Afghanistan in the first of the three-match ODI series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today, with an eye on the ICC 2023 World Cup Super League standings.

On February 20, 1952, I was busy all day with campaigning in different areas of the city to make the the next day’s progamme successful.