Three days after sacking Sharif Uddin, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday came up with 13 allegations against the former officer whose investigation into a land acquisition scam made headlines in 2020 and 2021.

Ekushey Padak-winning poet Quazi Rosy, who played a significant role as a prosecution witness in the war crimes case against executed Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, died at a city hospital yesterday.

Last-ditch diplomatic efforts were underway yesterday to prevent what Western powers warn could be the imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and a catastrophic European war.

As the vice president of Women’s Students’ Union, I was responsible for organising female students. I sent some of them to girls’ schools to bring the girls to the meeting at Amtala [February 21, 1952].

The meeting started at Amtala [February 21, 1952]. There was a question in everyone’s eyes -- what will happen, what will we do now?

All the secondary educational institutions in the country would get a two-day weekend -- Friday and Saturday -- each week from the next year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday said that if Western nations failed to fulfil their promises to support Ukraine’s independence, it would have damaging consequences worldwide, including for Taiwan.

Despite being aware of the threats to life and property, Hazi Wahed Mansion owners still rented out the residential property to set up five warehouses for flammable materials in order to make extra profit.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead yesterday at his shop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The health directorate reported 13 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday, the lowest since January 21.

An 18-year-old girl was killed yesterday after being hit by a train in Kulaura, Moulvibazar.

A sub-inspector of highway police was killed in a hit-and-run near Daudkandi Toll Plaza in Cumilla yesterday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has submitted his response to a police questionnaire relating to Downing Street parties that may have breached coronavirus regulations, his office said Friday.

The Sundarbans has to be protected as it acts like a shield to save the coast and country from cyclone, said speakers at the inaugural session of a conference in Khulna yesterday.

Dr Yousuf Ali, former director of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal, passed away in a Dhaka hospital yesterday.

Current geopolitical tensions around Ukraine may affect energy security, leading to diversion of global attention from the climate crisis, said experts and diplomats at a panel of the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

In a show of force, Russia yesterday test fired nuclear-capable missiles as the United States again warned that it believes Moscow plans to invade Ukraine within days or next week.

With 4.57 lakh workers hired from Bangladesh just last year, Saudi Arabia has been the top destination for Bangladeshi migrants for the past five years.

In response to Khwaja Nazimuddin’s declaration on January 27, 1952 that only Urdu would be the state language of Pakistan, an all-out strike was organised in all schools and colleges in Dhaka on February 4.

Mali’s army-led government yesterday asked France to withdraw its troops from the Sahel state “without delay”, calling into question Paris’ plans to pull out over several months.