A six-member delegation of the European Parliament arrived in Dhaka yesterday to learn about the country’s trade with Europe and its progress in adapting to more demanding trade standards.

After her husband’s sudden death, Jamuna Begum is left hopeless.

Malaysia has started the process of hiring workers from Bangladesh without settling the controversy surrounding the syndicate of 25 agencies chosen to conduct the recruitment.

The Sri Lankan parliament yesterday met to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the current term after the president fled abroad and resigned following mass protests over the country’s economic collapse.

A man, who turned himself in to police after murdering his wife and children, was sent to jail through a Jashore court yesterday.

Ten people were shot dead in Indonesia’s restive eastern province Papua yesterday in an ambush police attributed to rebels.

A headmaster was beaten up by some local Awami League men in Barishal’s Wazirpur upazila on Friday afternoon over the possession of Puttiari Beel.

Russia has ordered its forces in Ukraine to step up operations, its defence ministry said yesterday, as rockets and missiles pounded the country in the latest of a series of bombardments that Kyiv says have killed dozens of people in recent days.

Five people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours preceding 8:00am yesterday, taking the total fatalities from the virus in the country to 29,230.

A case was filed against three men for raping a woman in Narayanganj’s Fatullah yesterday.

Israel yesterday hit the Gaza Strip before dawn in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.

A transport worker died in “police custody” after being beaten up allegedly by a cop in Magura’s Sreepur upazila yesterday afternoon.

Thousands of people suffered for hours in tailbacks on Bangabandhu bridge link road in Tangail for the fourth straight day yesterday.

The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque complex in New Delhi is home to an ancient wonder of metal work – a 1,600-year-old iron pillar that is exceptionally resistant to rust.

Parul Begum (name changed), a single mother of two, thought she caught a break when she got the offer to work as domestic help in Qatar for a monthly salary of Tk 40,000.

Two childrenaged three and four drowned yesterday after falling into a pond in Bagerhat’s Mongla upazila. 

The body of a final-year student of Bangladesh University of  Engineering and Technology (Buet) was recovered from the Padma river  yesterday, nearly 24 hours after he went missing. 

Installation of rail track on the lower deck of Padma Bridge is likely to start from next week, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said yesterday. 

A mob yesterday vandalised a temple, a grocery store and several houses of the Hindu community in Sahapara area of Lohagara, Narail.

The ongoing heatwave in the country is expected to continue for a few more days.