Just days after police cleared Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil, Hungary-based entrepreneur Zulkarnain Saer Khan and six others of all charges in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) last year, a Dhaka tribunal yesterday ordered further investigation into them.

At least 10 people were killed and 14 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Jhenaidah, while six others died in separate road accidents in three other districts yesterday.

A Chuadanga Awami League leader has taught his fellow party leaders and activists a “trick” of winning the Alamdanga Municipality mayoral polls.

The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars reached the red planet and entered orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month, 494 million-km (307 million-mile) journey, allowing it to start sending data about the Martian atmosphere and climate.

The Election Commission has drafted a guideline for imparting training to polls-related officials, keeping in it controversial positions like “special speakers” and “course advisers” amid allegations of financial corruption through such posts.

Another year of hopelessness passes for the families of journalist-couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi. Nine years on, justice still remains a far cry.

Twenty-one eminent citizens yesterday called upon the authorities concerned to rectify some errors in a chapter on political parties in the “Civics and Citizenship” textbook of grades IX and X.

Israel and Greece agreed a tourism deal Monday that will allow coronavirus-vaccinated citizens of the two countries to travel between them without limitations, once flights resume.

As the family of three dead people were wallowing in the sorrow of losing their dear ones, there were those trying to make a their own benefits from the deaths.

Eight more coronavirus-related deaths and 387 fresh cases were recorded in the country in the 24 hours ending at 8:00am.

Israil Mia handed over his 27-year-old son Abdul Hye to police voluntarily to take care of his drug habit.

Police yesterday recovered around 14 lakh yaba tablets and Tk 1.71 crore in cash in separate drives in Cox’s Bazar.

The judgment in a case filed over the murder of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan against eight members of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam is set to be delivered today.

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

At least 10 people, including a plainclothes policeman and a TV cameraperson, were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Bogura Awami League and Jubo League in the town’s Charmatha bus terminal area yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the National Board of Revenue not to collect any income tax from the private universities across the country until further order.

The WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the source of the pandemic but the team yesterday ruled out the Wuhan lab-leak theory propagated by Donald Trump.

Myanmar police used force yesterday to disperse protests against military rule and one woman was in critical condition and not expected to survive after being shot in the head with a bullet, a doctor said.

Customs Intelligence officials yesterday arrested eight US-Bangla Airlines employees after recovering 60 gold bars at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The Maldives will recruit workers from Bangladesh by creating a solid framework under an agreement, said visiting Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Shahid yesterday.