Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was made captain of Bangladesh’s Test side for the third time and wicketkeeper-batter Liton Das was named his deputy following yesterday’s meeting between Bangladesh Cricket Board officials at the BCB headquarters in Mirpur.

A parliamentary body yesterday expressed resentment over the industries ministry’s “deliberate delay” in shutting down the tanners inside the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate,which are severely polluting the Dhaleshwari river.

Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday proposed alternatives to hiking gas and electricity prices and urged the government not to increase the tariffs.

Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on Wednesday, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars’ soured relationship.

Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said yesterday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Russian troops control about one-fifth of his country, including the annexed Crimean peninsula and territory in the east held by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.

The Election Commission yesterday cancelled the candidature of Awami League candidate Abdul Khaleque for Jhenidah municipality.

The High Court yesterday ordered the Directorate General of Drug Administration to pay Tk 15 lakh each to the families of 104 children who died after taking toxic paracetamol syrup in 1991 and 2009.

The energy regulator yesterday reduced the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by Tk 93 for every 12kg LPG cylinder.

A mobile court closed a rice mill in Rangpur for illegally stocking 800 metric tonnes of paddy and fined the mill authorities Tk 2 lakh.

A woman died after being struck by lightning at Purba Sardarpara village in Panchagarh’s Boda upazila Wednesday afternoon.

Bangladesh is missing out on a large labour market in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur stopped taking in any fresh Bangladeshi migrants over irregularities by recruiting agencies in 2018.

The BGB and Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) seized around 20kg gold in Jashore and Chattogram yesterday.

A youth was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend in Natore town yesterday afternoon.

A woman died after being hit by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation while she was crossing a road in the capital’s Mugda on Tuesday night.

The Supreme Court has declared that a High Court bench had illegally entertained a petition of Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, as she filed the plea while being a fugitive.

The Kremlin yesterday accused Washington of “adding fuel to the fire” by planning to supply Kyiv with advanced missile systems, as Ukraine looked close to losing the key eastern city of Severodonetsk to Russian forces.

The High Court yesterday stayed the trial proceedings against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in three cases filed under the much-talked-about Digital Security Act.

Mitali Express, the third passenger train between Bangladesh and India, has started operations yesterday, after railways ministers of the two countries flagged it off virtually.