With rivers in Sylhet and Sunamganj still flowing above the danger level, fisheries and crop farms have been bearing the brunt.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation will help the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh bring back the money laundered to the USA and Canada.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday warned that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia’s war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland.

A special court in India’s Bengaluru city has convicted nine Bangladeshis and punished them with sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment in connection with the gang-rape of a Bangladeshi woman in May last year.

Police on Friday arrested a man for sexually and verbally harassing a young woman over how she was dressed at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday.

Australia’s Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule as the government was swept away in yesterday’s election by a wave of support for candidates who campaigned for more action on climate change and may hold the balance of power.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday congratulated Anthony Albanese on his election as Australia’s new leader, vowing to work together on trade, military ties and climate change.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has said holding a free, fair and credible election under the authoritarian government is uncertain as the administration or constitutional institutions become helpless in front of it.

Three people were killed after a train hit a pick-up on an unmanned rail crossing in Nalchhata area of Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila yesterday morning.

Border Guard Bangladesh members yesterday recovered around 14.5kg of gold, worth over Tk 10.11 crore, while it was being smuggled to India through Chougachha border in Jashore.

Russian forces bombarded areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region from land and air yesterday, destroying houses in residential districts and killing a number of civilians, Ukrainian officials said.

Five railway officials in Khulna have been transferred over allegations of selling tickets on the black market.

An elderly man and his grandson were killed after being hit by a train in Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand upazila yesterday afternoon.

Bangladesh registered 50 new Covid cases in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday, taking the country’s total caseload to 1,953,188, health authorities said.

Bangladesh expressed its commitment to guarantee human rights of all, as enshrined in its constitution, as the European Union raised concerns on alleged human rights violations in Bangladesh and stressed on ensuring accountability.

A 55-year-old man is going to take part in the tests for admission to Dhaka University.

Unidentified people assaulted a woman and her two friends at the Narsingdi Railway Station on Wednesday morning because of the clothes she was wearing, which the attackers had termed “indecent”.

Thousands of people queued for cooking gas and petrol in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital yesterday and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis.

The Superintendent of Tourist Police in Sylhet Region, Altaf Hossain, has been terminated for his role in concealing 1.4kg of gold recovered in Satkhira in 2016, when he was the Satkhira SP.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned yesterday that countries focused on helping Ukraine should not ignore other crises, which were likely to worsen due to the war.