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.

Lives of three couples and three others came to a tragic end in a three-vehicle pileup in Goplaganj’s Kashiani upazila yesterday.

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today amid festivities after two years of Covid-induced restrictions.

The health directorate is going to conduct a special campaign this month to inoculate around five crore people, aged 18 and above, who have received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccines at least four months ago.

Twenty-two leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and its associated bodies have been accused in a case of killing Jatiya Jubo Jote leader Mahabub Khan Salam.

The war in Ukraine could reach a “breaking point” by August and end in defeat for Russia before the end of the year, Kyiv’s head of military intelligence said yesterday, as fierce fighting raged in Ukraine’s east, slowing down a hoped-for Russian advance.

A journalist and his companion were stabbed allegedly by a teen gang in Narayanganj on Friday night.

The 62-year-old man arrested for allegedly shooting 10 people on the New York subway last month pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal terrorism charges.

Two groups of higher secondary students at Dhaka College and Ideal College were caught in a clash in the capital’s Science Laboratory intersection around 11:00am yesterday.

The low-lying areas in Sylhet division have submerged due to excessive rainfall in the country’s north-eastern region and in India’s Assam and Meghalaya.

Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours yesterday, further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made first his cabinet appointments after clashes between pro- and anti-government groups killed nine people.

Seven suspected members of an organ trading gang, who are mostly engaged in kidney trading, have been arrested from different places in Joypurhat on Friday night, said police.

A man was killed while his brother injured after a huge chunk of earth from a hillock fell onto a house in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has finally taken a decision to make a “conditional technical stopover” in Manchester for Dhaka-Toronto flights until the Russia-Ukraine war is over.

Twenty-seven people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday, emergency services said.

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister yesterday struggled to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse as opposition lawmakers refused to join his cabinet and demanded fresh elections.

That’s one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man’s knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program.

No one was arrested over the killing of a timber trader in Jashore’s Abhaynagar till yesterday evening.

The ongoing drive against illegal hoarding of edible oil continued in the country yesterday with another 3,400 litres of oil seized in two districts and hoarders fined Tk1.60 lakh.

Elon Musk yesterday said he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter, sending shares in the social media giant plunging.