A teenage girl has been arrested in the capital’s Mirpur for “hurting religious sentiments” through social media.

The health ministry ordered suspension of student admission at Shah Makhdum Medical College in Rajshahi because of the “poor state of education”.

Violent attacks in Afghanistan surged by 50 percent over recent months even as the Kabul government and the Taliban launched unprecedented peace talks in September, a US watchdog warned yesterday.

Eight days into the brutal killing of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in the district’s Patgram upazila, police are yet to arrest Abul Hossain who allegedly first spread the rumour about desecration of the Holy Quran by the victim.

England’s 56 million people joined much of western Europe in a second coronavirus lockdown yesterday, as the United States set a fresh daily record with close to 100,000 new infections.

As Aung San Suu Kyi is vilified internationally for denying genocide against the Rohingya, her opponents in Sunday’s Myanmar election are ramping up the rhetoric against the Muslim minority.

Rab arrested a union parishad member on charge of raping a woman in Joypurhat early yesterday, while an Imam of a mosque in Rangpur’s Taraganj upazila was sent to jail for raping a 10-year-oldgirl on Wednesday night.

Four Bangladeshi expatriates died and another was critically injured after a bus carrying 52 Bangladeshis hit a roadside bus bay in Mauritius yesterday.

Seven police personnel of different units of Chattogram Metropolitan Police have tested positive in dope tests since the Bangladesh Police ordered all its units to test police personnel to identify members who use drugs.

Olivia Hembrom, 33, was left wanting for food and work in March when coronavirus and a nationwide shutdown hit Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today sends greetings to the government and people of the Soviet Union on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead allegedly by Rohingya assailants in Jadimura area of Teknaf upazila yesterday.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday arrested six people and seized two lakh yaba pills from their possession in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh wants to strengthen its capacity to resist any external attack.

Twenty-one people died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday with which the total death toll in the country crossed 6,000-mark, reported the Directorate General Health Services (DGHS).

A woman was arrested yesterday in connection with the rape of a schoolgirl in Tangail, while in Dinajpur, a 12-year-old boy was arrested for the rape of a seven-year old.

Bangladesh has reaffirmed its commitment to show respect for everyone’s religious and cultural sensitivity, conveying to the France government that no religion supports killings.

Italian officials yesterday agreed to impose a night-time curfew, joining a slew of European nations in ramping up restrictions in the face of a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases.

Saudi Arabia yesterday said it will ease key restrictions on millions of foreign workers, as part of plans to reform its long-criticised labour policy.

Slain Shahidunnabi Jewel’s friend in a statement to police said Jewel did not demean the Holy Quran but had a bitter argument with the Burimari mosque khadem after Asr prayers.