At least 10 Bangladeshis were killed and seven others injured in a road accident near the Saudi capital of Riyadh yesterday morning.

Cyclone Fani, which has turned into a “very severe cyclonic storm”, is likely to make landfall in India’s Odisha this afternoon and shake southwestern Bangladesh in the evening.

Some 463 violations of freedom of speech occurred in the country last year, according to a human rights organisation.

Some one million Rohingyas face serious health risks due to acute air and water pollution in the crammed camps of Cox’s Bazar, says a new study that assessed environmental conditions in one of the world’s largest refugee settlements.

The Bogura-6 constituency yesterday fell vacant as BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir failed to take oath within the stipulated time of April 29.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday reassured taxpayers that there would be no hike in tax rates in the coming budget, rather more people would be brought under the tax net so that it widens.

Explosives used in the crude bomb explosion in the capital’s Gulistan on Monday night were poor in quality, but the manufacturing technique was different from that of conventional crude bombs.

The High Court yesterday accepted BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s appeal to quash a trial court verdict that sentenced her to seven years in jail in October last year.

With 72 percent locomotives of Bangladesh Railway already crossing their economic life, the government considers hiring locomotives from India for the first time to help the railway overcome the crisis.

Sanowar Hossain is longing for justice for over nine years after he filed a case with a Dhaka labour court in 2010, seeking compensation for his termination by his employer in Gazipur.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that there was nothing to be worried about the stock market as the government took measures in this regard.

India’s battleground state of West Bengal took the centre stage in the fourth phase of a staggered general election yesterday after clashes broke out between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party and a regional bloc in Asansol.

Two militant suspects were killed after they allegedly detonated improvised explosive devices in a house in the city’s Bosila area during a Rab raid early yesterday.

The Tigers wrapped up their home preparation yesterday before their departure for Ireland tomorrow for a triangular series that will lead into the ICC World Cup starting on May 30 in England and Wales.

Ending weeks of speculations, four BNP MPs yesterday took oath in line with the party decision, although party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who too has been elected, did not do so.

Two traffic constables and a community policeman were injured in a crude bomb blast in the capital’s Gulistan area yesterday evening.

The stock market regulator yesterday came up with a raft of decisions to halt the fall in share prices for over a month.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said the government will ensure the highest punishment to culprits, if necessary by enacting tougher laws, to prevent sexual harassment in the country.

GPH Ispat Ltd has given a clarification in response to a report published in The Daily Star on Sunday with the headline “Dam makeshift, damage extensive”.

Sri Lanka’s churches remained shut yesterday forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country’s Roman Catholic leader called “an insult to humanity”.