Information service officers under a government project were supposed to draw a monthly salary of Tk 27,100, according to the job circular and their appointment letters.

A college student was stabbed to death at her home in Sherpur’s Nakla upazila yesterday.

A 40-year-old madrasa teacher in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila was sent to jail yesterday for sexually abusing two 13-year-old residential students, said police. 

Several hundred protesters marched Sunday in Akron, Ohio after the release of body camera footage that showed police fatally shooting a Black man with several dozen rounds of bullets.

Six people were killed and about two dozen were injured in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park yesterday, officials said, as panicked spectators fled the scene.

Two aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines collided at the hangar on Sunday, in a repeat of the incident in April that had left two Boeings grounded for months.

Veteran director Padma Shri Tarun Majumdar, known for making popular films based on finely-woven tales of human relationships in the lives of rural and urban middle-class families, passed away in a hospital in South Kolkata yesterday.

Police on Sunday night detained six people in Khurushkul of Cox’s Bazar in connection with the killing of a local Chhatra League leader.

Eight people were sent to jail yesterday for hacking a woman to death and injuring her husband, at Aikadia village in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur upazila around 11:00pm on Sunday.

China placed 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly 300 new cases yesterday in the latest of a string of outbreaks testing Beijing’s no-tolerance approach to Covid-19.

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her, the US State Department said yesterday.

Ukrainian forces were taking up new defensive lines in the east yesterday, preparing for a hard new phase in the war as President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s victory in the months-long battle of Luhansk.

Police on Sunday night arrested Nurunnabi, a key accused in the case filed over the harassment of the acting principal of Mirzapur Degree College in Narail, bringing the total number of arrests in the case to five. 

Police recovered the throat-slit body of an indigenous female school teacher from her house in Rangamati’s Longdu upazila yesterday.

A college student was electrocuted and his paternal uncle injured at Bhati Langarpara Charband in Sherpur’s Shribardi upazila yesterday.

An engineer of the under construction Bangabandhu Rail Bridge over the Jamuna River died Saturday night after being hit by a Jamalpur-bound train in Biaramarua area in Tangail’s Kalihati upazila.

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters demanding an end to military rule took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its suburbs for a fourth straight day yesterday, witnesses said.

A Hong Kong lawmaker who posed for a group photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leader’s visit to the financial hub this week confirmed yesterday he has since tested positive for coronavirus. 

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday slammed officials at Dhaka airport for the sufferings of the passengers who often have to wait for hours for their baggage upon arrival.

Sitting in a roadside garage near what used to be her home, Nasima Begum, 70, was seen trying to salvage whatever was edible from paddy she had stored earlier.