Against the backdrop of multiple sensational crimes involving juveniles, the government decided to amend the children act and is considering whether to lower the age threshold that qualifies an individual as a juvenile.

The bodies of a 42-year-old woman and her son were found yesterday with slit throats in their home in Araihazar, Narayanganj.

Russia yesterday claimed to have captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk and the entire frontline Lugansk region which would mark a decisive breakthrough for Moscow’s forces seeking control of the country’s east. 

Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Shawkat Kabir of Narail Sadar Police Station was withdrawn and attached to the Khulna Reserve Range on Saturday night.

Amid widespread criticism for providing wrong information in parliament on changes made in textbooks, Jatiya Party MP Fakhrul Imam has admitted that the statement “was not correct in the current context”.

China’s foreign minister yesterday called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil.

Bangladesh has ranked seventh among the world’s angriest, saddest and most stressed nations, says a new global survey.

The death toll from a massive landslide in India hit 37 yesterday, authorities said, as rescue teams battled teeming rain to search for 25 others still missing three days later. 

Libya’s rival leaders were under growing street pressure yesterday after protesters stormed parliament as anger exploded over deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock. 

Amin Mohammad Hilaly, managing director of Ashaloy Housing and Developers Ltd and an accused in the NSU graft case, has reportedly gone missing from Uttara.

Missiles rained down on Ukraine killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built up areas as the weekend began, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse Russia of state “terror”. 

US climate envoy John Kerry vowed Friday the United States will meet goals it submitted to the United Nations on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, despite a Supreme Court ruling that curtailed the government’s powers. 

A Jubo League leader was hacked to death by criminals in Mymensingh city’s Gondropa area on Friday night.

A Cox’s Bazar court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in the district’s Ukhiya upazila.

The district administration has asked all schools, colleges and madrasas in Narail to make sure that students to do not bring mobile phones to the institutions.

Despite a bumper yield of potatoes, consumers are not being able to reap the benefits due to a five-year record hike in the retail prices of the vegetable.

Haji Yunus Ali College in Ashulia has suspended a female student over her alleged involvement in Monday’s attack on teacher Utpal Kumar Sarkar, who died of his wounds at a local hospital on Wednesday.

Six people died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, reported the Directorate General of Health Services.

Bangladesh is one of the world’s 10 worst countries for workers, according to the Global Rights Index 2022 of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

India’s Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Sudhakar Dalela is expected to be the next High Commissioner to Bangladesh, replacing Vikram K Doraiswami, reported Hindustan Times.