The US wants Bangladesh to join the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a new regional trade initiative launched by Joe Biden in Japan yesterday.

The High Court yesterday refused to allow Awami League leader Md Salim Khan to extract sand from the Meghna in Chandpur and sell it.

Passenger train services between Bangladesh and India will resume on May 29 after a long break of more than two years due to the Covid pandemic.

Australia’s election has brought in a wave of Greens and independents pushing for aggressive targets to cut carbon emissions, who will pressure the incoming Labor government to step up its climate plans if it wants to pass any legislation.

The BNP yesterday said it would scrap all sorts of repressive acts and ordinances, including the controversial Digital Security Act, if it comes to power.

The High Court yesterday said corruption and money laundering are more damaging than murders these days.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified its attack in the east and south and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions.

Instructing all international airports and land ports to strengthen monkeypox screening, health officials yesterday asked those suffering from fever and rash to self-isolate and contact nearby public hospitals for tests. 

When the pandemic forced schools into remote learning, Washington-area science teacher Rebecca Bushway set her students an ambitious task: design and build a low-cost lead filter that fixes to faucets and removes the toxic metal.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent two men to jail on charges of raping a woman in front of her husband and drugging her in-laws in Rangpur’s Badarganj upazila.

With the water levels of the Surma and Kushiyara rivers slowly receding, the damning impacts of the floods in Sylhet and Sunamganj has become more visible.

Paturia River Police yesterday recovered the body of Nassa Group’s general manager from the Jamuna two days after he went missing while bathing in the river in Manikganj’s Shibaloy upazila.

The president of Akhaura municipality ward unit Awami League was sent to jail yesterday after law enforcers seized 2,235 yaba pills from his residence in the municipality’s Devgram area.

Police  yesterday said they cannot take any further legal action unless a  formal complaint is lodged over a woman being physically and verbally  harassed because of her attire at Narsingdi Railway Station on  Wednesday.

Police  yesterday said they cannot take any further legal action unless a  formal complaint is lodged over a woman being physically and verbally  harassed because of her attire at Narsingdi Railway Station on  Wednesday.

The authorities recorded one coronavirus death and 16 fresh cases in the preceding 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

A police officer was killed and eight others were injured after a pickup van overturned in Moulvibazar’s Rajnagar upazila early yesterday.

Two men went missing after a paddy-laden trawler capsized in the Padma in Louhajong upazila of Munshiganj yesterday.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has admitted that the Digital Security Act has been misused and abused to some extent.

At least five people were killed and hundreds of earthen houses damaged as the Nor’wester swept over the country yesterday morning.