Amnesty International yesterday expressed deep concern over the recent arbitrary detention and other forms of harassment of artists who are facing increasing attacks on their right to freedom of expression in Bangladesh.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested a union-level deputy assistant land officer after he was found making a fortune out of land acquisitions for the government’s development work in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday disapproved two lawmakers’ proposal to name the under-construction Padma bridge after her for her contributions to the country’s development and progress.

We shared a very intimate and personal bond. I still remember those days when newly-married Mujibur Rahman Dilu came to my Paltan residence with his wife.

The toll from a powerful explosion caused by a gas leak that gutted a building in a residential part of Madrid rose to four yesterday after a priest died from his injuries.

A union-level leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League in Tangail’s Mirzapur was sent to jail yesterday on charges of recording videos of a woman bathing on his mobile phone.

Officials in Kushtia are investigating allegations that votes were cast in the Mirpur municipality election using the names of people who had died and those who had been out of the country.

The High Court yesterday directed the inspector general of police to provide security to the official who witnessed policemen misbehaving with a judicial magistrate during the municipality polls in Kushtia.

Potato and Boro farmers in the northern region of the country are fearing a huge loss this season due to adverse weather.

The University Grants Commission yesterday requested the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) to extend the deadline for the 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service exam applications till March 31.

Central Europeans of the Bronze Age used bronze rings, ribs and axe blades that were roughly standardised in their shape and weight as an early form of “euros,” according to a new study.

Five people died as a fire tore through a building in the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturing hub in India yesterday, but the company insisted the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic would continue.

Family members of a man who was killed over land dispute in Mymensingh on December 25 alleged that they were being threatened by the accused.

Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi in a Naples flat and returned it to a church that had no idea it had been stolen.

China’s role in Rohingya repatriation is turning out to be a decisive factor in resolving the crisis as the country embarked on the role of a mediator between Bangladesh and Myanmar and is likely to continue it until a solution is found, analysts have said.

Bangladesh saw a daily infection rate of 4.26 percent with 656 new cases reported until early yesterday.

A team of Rab and forest guards has arrested a poacher and recovered a tiger skin from his possession in Bagerhat’s Sharankhola upazila.

The severity of cold intensified yesterday as some rainfall occurred in many parts of the country, including in the capital.

Vegetable traders -- Apan Mia and Nazrul Islam -- were waiting near the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on the night of December 28 last year for a vehicle to go to Karwan Bazar when a pick-up van stopped in front of them.

The UK coronavirus strain has spread to at least 60 countries, the World Health Organization reported yesterday, as 1.6 million residents were banned from leaving Beijing after two cases linked to the new strain were found in the Chinese capital.