A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed in a road accident in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The Buet authorities will expel students if he or she is found involved in ragging that leads to death, serious “bodily harm”, any form of disability, permanent mental imbalance or trauma, and disruption of academic life of any fellow student.

Production at nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt came to a halt as workers started a 24-hour work abstention yesterday morning to press home their 11-point demand.

No one except Bangladeshis would be allowed to enter the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said about recent “trespassing” of people from India.

This decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said yesterday in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing humanity’s ability to adapt to it.

The top authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines had clearly instructed its officials to realise an additional charge for handling each kilogram of incoming and outgoing cargo carried by non-scheduled freighters.

She was among the women who had fought shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts for establishing the right to speak in the mother tongue -- Bangla.

Violating the border rules, Indian Border Security Force has set up a temporary watch post in the no-man’s land at Shahebnagar frontier of Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Trains cancelled, schools closed: France yesterday scrambled to make contingency plans for a huge strike against pension overhauls that poses one of the biggest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reform drive.

A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed in a road accident in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

One of China’s highest-ranking Uighur officials and the former head of the troubled northwest Xinjiang region was sentenced to life in prison over graft charges yesterday, a court said.

Japan said yesterday it had agreed to buy an uninhabited island off its southwest coast for $146 million, eyeing it for US military drills.

A Kishoreganj court has sentenced a man to death for killing his fifth-grader sister-in-law after raping her in 2017.

The registration process of online news portals will start next week, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said yesterday.

Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt yesterday demonstrated to press home their 11-point demand, including payment of their dues and implementation of their new wage board.

The government has decided to phase out the use of bricks by 2025 in all its construction works to reduce the air pollution as brick kilns are one of the major sources of air pollution in Bangladesh.

Recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia “will take responsibilities” of the Bangladeshi female migrant workers as long as they remain employed in the Gulf country, as per a decision taken at a joint technical committee meeting recently.

Britain’s Apostrophe Protection Society is closing down, its founder has announced, saying it had sadly lost the fight against “ignorance and laziness”.

In an attempt to dodge the law enforcers, Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has opted for an online platform that allows anonymous communication for recruiting new members, police said.

The High Court yesterday came down heavily on Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) for not complying with its 2011 directives over sealing all sewerage lines to the Buriganga and for making an untrue statement about sewerage lines connected to the river.