Criminals abducted a trader in Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali on Sunday night and demanded a ransom of Tk 1 lakh.

At least 109 dengue patients were hospitalised in the first week of June alone, an alarming spike.

Seven Chhatra League men were yesterday sued for an attack on Bhangabari Union Parishad chairman and panel chairman and snatching of Tk 1.76 lakh two days ago.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the people to take austerity measures amid high inflation and price hike of goods across the world due to the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic.

She lost her mother at six.

Four people of a family, including a five-year-old, were killed in a landslide in Satjami village of Sylhet’s Jaintiapur upazila early yesterday.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday denied bail to ruling Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim in a corruption case in which the High Court upheld his conviction and 10 years’ jail sentence.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced a Jahangirnagar University student to seven years’ imprisonment in a case under the ICT Act for making derogatory remarks on Facebook about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, a respected monitor said yesterday, adding that the notorious ADF militia were suspected.

The government has cancelled the registration of non-governmental organisation Odhikar, amidst an ongoing legal battle in this regard.

As the garment workers continued their protests yesterday demanding pay increases, the government hinted at forming a minimum wage board to fix a new pay structure for them as soon as possible.

Bangladesh’s newspaper industry is going through a crisis because of laws that restrict freedom of speech and the precarious state of the economy, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.

The parliamentary standing committee on information and broadcasting ministry was yesterday given 60 more days to scrutinise the much-debated Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill 2022.

The number of ‘new poor’ in Bangladesh has not dropped off despite the economy reopening due to the runaway inflation between January and May, found a recent study.

Four staffers of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

Rafael Nadal won a 14th French Open and record-extending 22nd Grand Slam title on Sunday with a straight-sets rout of Casper Ruud to become the oldest male champion at Roland Garros.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that Moscow will hit new targets if the West supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles, hours after several explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The Swiss descendent of one of Adolf Hitler’s doctors has released details of letters that show how he treated the Nazi dictator for voice problems, NZZ am Sonntag newspaper reported yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested Nagdemra Union Parishad Chairman Hafizur Rahman in a case filed over the hacking to death of an Awami League activist in Santhia upazila.