Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said a good number of Rohingyas have been coming to Bangladesh from India through the fences in recent times.

Chattogram division is at high risk of being one of the world’s largest carbon catastrophes, said speakers at the launch of a study yesterday.

A Bagerhat court yesterday sentenced Kalim Sheikh, 30, to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old.

Police yesterday recovered the body of Setara Halim, 75, mother of Amir Khasru, a journalist of Voice of America Bangla service, from her house in Pirojpur town.

Former chief justice SK Sinha, who is convicted in a corruption case, used his elder brother and a nephew to cover up his ill-gotten wealth.

The allegation that Travelling Ticket Examiner Md Shafiqul Islam misbehaved with three train passengers and fined them for travelling without tickets has been found false, finds a railway probe body. 

With three major rivers -- the Surma, Kushiyara and Sari-Gowain -- swelling beyond the danger level, the flood situation in Sylhet district has worsened in seven upazilas and the Sylhet city area.

The government may face the next election with the most unstable economic situation in over a decade, which is going to affect the low- and middle-income brackets most, said a citizens’ platform yesterday.

Georgia yesterday jailed for over three years an owner of the nation’s most popular television station critical of the government, further raising concerns over media freedom in the country.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a petition with the High Court seeking the cancellation of the bail granted to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a corruption case.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned Finland and Sweden to expect a “response” for applying to join Nato as Ukrainian troops reached border after pushing Russian forces back from the northeastern city of Kharkiv.

Three men were arrested yesterday on charges of gangraping two cousins in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila.

Russia has lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said yesterday.

Australian cricket was reeling Sunday after swashbuckling former all-rounder Andrew Symonds was killed in a single-car accident outside Townsville in Queensland state on Saturday night.

Several thousand villagers in six upazilas of Sylhet remained marooned as the flood situation worsened in the region.

Bangladesh is preparing to strike a deal to import wheat from India, said food ministry Secretary Mosammat Nazmunara Khanum.

Israel yesterday reopened its only crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinian workers nearly two weeks after closing it over unrest, the defence ministry said. 

No deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the country for the 25th consecutive day yesterday.

A police constable’s left hand was severed from the elbow when an accused hacked him during an arrest drive in Chattogram’s Lohagara yesterday morning.

Bangladesh and the US are holding the ninth defence dialogue in Hawaii today as the two countries seek to strengthen security cooperation in the changed geopolitical landscape.