A criminal was killed in a gunfight between his gang and security force members in Rangamati early yesterday, according to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release.

A Brahmanbaria court yesterday sent four teachers of a madrasa, including its principal, to jail on charge of killing a female student of the institution after rape.

Bangladeshi nationals living in Singapore are rushing to come back home amidst fears of the coronavirus infection in this island city-state off southern Malaysia.

Air quality in Bangladesh was the worst in the world last year and Dhaka was the 21st most polluted city, according to 2019 World Air Quality Report.

The resumption of Malaysia hiring Bangladeshi workers has become uncerztain amid recent political development of the Southeast Asian country.

Bangabandhu calls for agricultural revolution to make the country self-sufficient in food production.

The 11th anniversary of the carnage at the BDR headquarters in the capital was observed yesterday.

China has sentenced Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad and claimed him as a citizen, prompting Stockholm to call for his release in a case that has rattled diplomatic relations.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was granted bail yesterday after months in detention on graft charges.

A garment worker was allegedly gang-raped at Ashulia in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on Sunday night.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia was arrested as per the instructions of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Fresh deaths and a surge in new coronavirus cases in Iran, Japan and South Korea yesterday fuelled fears of a pandemic, as the disease took root in some of the world’s poorest -- and worst-equipped -- countries.

Former President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years, died yesterday at the age of 91 after undergoing treatment in intensive care following surgery.

A woman died in police custody early yesterday, hours after she was picked up from the city’s Mohammadpur area.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to declare March 7 as “National Historic Day” since Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered his historic speech on March 7, 1971, inspiring the nation to go for the Liberation War.

Police arrested two young men early yesterday on charges of gangraping a schoolgirl in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila.

Bangladeshis who wish to perform hajj will have to spend more for the pilgrimage this year, mainly due to the increase in airfare and visa fees.

Paul Mark Henry, assistant secretary-general of the UN, today makes an unscheduled air-dash to his headquarters in New York following two consecutive meetings with Bangabandhu.

Two traders have cut hills and trees at Chittagong University to build a dirt road through the campus for carrying logs of trees from a nearby area in Hathazari upazila.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed in the country on the night of March 22.