Syria has confirmed major damage including to runways at Damascus International Airport, which was closed for a second day yesterday for repairs after Israeli air strikes.

The proposed budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year does not outline a roadmap for reducing gas imports by increasing domestic production.

A 37-year-old trader was yesterday found dead with a piece of cloth stuffed into his mouth near a railway track in Jashore, police said.

A woman sustained burn injuries in an acid attack in Khusiura village of Sunamgnaj’s Dowarabazar upazila on Thursday night.

A Sylhet court yesterday sent a man to jail in a case filed under the controversial Digital Security Act for his “derogatory” comments on expatriates’ welfare minister. 

Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.

A Palli Bidyut Samity employee was killed and five others injured when people with illegal power connections attacked them on Friday night at Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

Sumon Shikder Musa, a key accused in the killings of Dhaka Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and a college student, will be interrogated face to face with other accused to obtain information whether any others were behind the crime.

Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said yesterday.

Reduced exports of wheat and other food commodities from Ukraine and Russia risk leaving between 11 million and 19 million more people with chronic hunger over the next year, the United Nations’ food agency said yesterday.

The United Nations yesterday slammed cancellation of the operating licence of rights group Odhikar, urging the Bangladesh government to “immediately reconsider”.

The UN refugee agency yesterday accused Britain of dishonesty over London’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, as a court heard an emergency bid to block the first deportations next week.

US President Joe Biden faced open criticism Thursday at an Americas summit, along with complaints about foreign pressure by Brazil’s far-right leader, as he sought progress on issues from migration to climate change.

A Rohingya leader was hacked to death by unidentified criminals at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

At least 25 houses were devoured by the Jamuna on Friday while nearly 50 establishments face the threat of erosion in Brammangacha village of Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur. 

Ukraine said yesterday it had launched new air strikes on Russian positions in the captured southern region of Kherson as President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Kyiv’s forces were “holding on” in the east of the country.

The proposed budget placed in parliament yesterday is geared towards attracting private sector investment to create employment and to expand business, but some proposals need to be reconsidered, said economists and businesspeople.

The government has proposed an allocation of Tk 82,745 crore to run its subsidy programme for 2022-23, an increase of 53.7 percent from this fiscal year’s original outlay, creating a challenge to macroeconomic stability.

The proposed budget did not offer any new way out for the recovery of learning loss of millions of students caused by the Covid-19 pandemic through school closures.

Let’s consider, for the ease of understanding, that the government has proposed an expenditure plan involving Tk 100. In this