A Joypurhat court sent a private tutor to jail yesterday on charge of raping his student in Akkelpur upazila.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Hong Kong’s next leader John Lee in Beijing, state media said yesterday, telling the former security chief that he has the full trust of the central government.

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored an order to stay at home and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation.

Dhaka has sought Delhi’s suggestions on how to purchase energy and wheat from Russia.

Election Commissioner Ahsan Habib Khan yesterday said one of the main challenges in using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in elections is interference by “goons” who forcibly press the EVM buttons for the voters.

Dhaka Wasa and the icddr,b yesterday said they tested Wasa supply water at source and found it to be safe.

A 103-year-old Swedish woman on Sunday set the world record for the oldest person to complete a tandem parachute jump, saying she planned to celebrate “with a little cake”.

Nepal authorities yesterday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday accused “Zionists” of assassinating a colonel in Tehran earlier this month, the Guards’ official website reported.

Around 100 people have died in clashes between gold miners in northern Chad, Defence Minister General Daoud Yaya Brahim said yesterday.

One of the two constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, who had gone missing in the Netherlands during an official training, contacted his family and said that he would not return home.

Ukrainian forces endured heavy artillery barrages yesterday as they held off Russian attempts to capture Severodonetsk, the largest city Kyiv still controls in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, Ukrainian officials said.

Ten people, including a nine-year-old, died and 25 others were seriously injured as a bus of Jamuna Line Transport crashed into a tree in Sanuhar area of Ujirpur, Barishal, in the early morning yesterday.

Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan president’s home yesterday as the government offered an olive branch to demonstrators demanding his resignation.

Turkey will not wait for US “permission” to launch a new offensive in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published yesterday, defying a warning from Washington.

Train services between Bangladesh and India resumed yesterday after remaining suspended for over two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Directorate of National Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) yesterday fined 64 traders Tk 9.18 lakh for their failure to protect consumers’ rights.

In  the full text of the verdict in a murder case, the High Court has asked  the inspector general of police to take action against 19 police  personnel, including the investigation officer, for not giving  statements as witnesses before the trial court.

A fire broke out at Shahjibazar 330 MW Power Plant in Habiganj yesterday morning.

The bridge over the Padma river, the country’s longest, will be named “Padma Bridge”.