When onion prices have reached Tk 150 a kg, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, raising many eyebrows, claimed that the prices were under control.

The Sundarbans may be destroyed if unplanned development in the southwestern region follows the opening of the Padma Bridge, noted climate change expert Dr Saleemul Huq said yesterday.

A Russian court yesterday handed down prison terms of up to 19 years to six Crimean Tatar men for membership of a banned “terrorist organisation”, ending a three-year case denounced by rights groups.

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman has been elected Ameer of the party.

China yesterday accused the US of using the United Nations to “meddle” in Tibet, as Washington intensifies its bid to prevent Beijing from handpicking the Dalai Lama’s successor.

Three simultaneous bombings killed at least six civilians in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria yesterday, a Kurdish security source and a Britain-based monitor said.

Vietnam yesterday jailed a dissident with Australian citizenship for 12 years on terrorism charges, his lawyer told AFP, in the one-party state where anti-government criticism is routinely quashed.

The German coalition parties on Sunday reached a deal on pension reform, thus avoiding a political crisis which threatened to collapse the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Students of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) yesterday demonstrated on the campus protesting the death of a fellow student allegedly due to the negligence of the authorities.

A seventh-grader was raped in Manikganj on Saturday night, while police on Sunday arrested 12 people on charge of raping a college girl and spreading a video of the incident in Pabna.

A police officer shot a masked protester in an incident shown live on Facebook and a man was set on fire yesterday during one of the most violent days of clashes in Hong Kong since pro-democracy unrest erupted more than five months ago.

Nasa, most prominent for its many Florida-launched exploits into space, showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 “Maxwell,” on Friday at its lesser-known aeronautics lab in the California desert.

A visually impaired student of Chittagong University was beaten up by a Chhatra League activist on Sunday night over a trivial matter.

Ten of the students agitating for the resignation of Jahangirnagar University’s vice-chancellor over corruption allegation have alleged that police harassed their family members in their village homes.

Grameenphone yesterday alleged that the telecom regulator was trying to extort the company for Tk 12,579.95 crore, which according to the regulator was public money.

Tureen Afroz, a prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, has been removed from her post for “serious misconduct”.

Much has been said about the tremendous growth momentum of the Bangladesh economy. It was amongst the fastest growing nations in the world in the past decade, as per data from the state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics -- and the trend is expected to continue into the near future, too.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the ongoing anti-graft drive will be carried out in all sectors, and no political parties would be left out.

Rab yesterday seized 1,075 “forged” passports from two travel agency offices at the capital’s Fakirapool.

A Republican lawmaker on Sunday broke with the US president and fellow party members to reject the idea that the whistleblower whose complaint prompted an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump should have to testify publicly.