Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home from Libya on Wednesday went through severe hardship as their livelihoods were hampered due to economic uncertainty and deterioration of law and order.

The road that connects Bangladesh’s Sylhet to Indian’s Shillong through Jaintapur-Tamabil was constructed in 1932.

A Boeing 777 airliner yesterday made an emergency landing in Moscow with engine problems, the operating airline said, days after another model rained down engine debris over the United States.

Bangladesh’s novel coronavirus caseload climbed to 545,424 yesterday after the health authorities detected 470 new cases in 24 hours till the morning.

French safety officials yesterday gave the green light to extend the lifetime of the country’s oldest of nuclear power plants as it seeks to boost the share of renewables in its power mix.

An Awami League (AL) leader was beaten to death at his in-law’s place at Tayarpur village in Satkania upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.

Family members of a journalist who was killed during a clash in Noakhali’s Companyganj upazila on February 19 have demanded trial of the killers.

A new passenger train between Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri (NJP) of India’s West Bengal state will start its service on March 26 as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence.

Five more Covid-19-related deaths and 410 new cases were reported in the country in 24 hours till yesterday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to the people to strictly maintain the health protection guidelines even after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

If the contractor for the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project has any issue, it should talk to the authorities concerned, as this is not something to talk about with the media, said Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday.

After the separation of his parents 11 years ago, Hasan Bapari used to live with his maternal grandparents in Feni. After their deaths last year, he was admitted to a madrasa in Narayanganj. But there he was sexually abused by a teacher and he left the madrasa.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called upon the US authorities to help legalise the undocumented Bangladeshis residing there.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to confiscate 59 acres of land and three flats of Proshanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, in a money laundering case.

Italy said yesterday it has asked the United Nations to launch an investigation into the killing of its ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Fortify Rights and 136 other organisations have written an open letter, calling for the UN Security Council to institute a coordinated, global arms embargo against the Myanmar military that has taken control of power through a coup on February 1.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the last great poet of the Beat Generation who helped to establish the counter-culture movement of 1950s America through his City Lights bookshop and publishers, has died, the store announced Tuesday. He was 101.

The three-year-old boy whose body was recovered from a rooftop water tank in the capital’s Shyampur area on Tuesday was kidnapped by a masked man from Gazipur on Saturday.

The number of people vaccinated for Covid-19 rose to 2,673,038 as the vaccination campaign entered the 15th day yesterday.

India announced an expansion of its vaccination programme yesterday but warned that breaches of coronavirus protocols could worsen an infection surge in many states, particularly after it detected several variants.