Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as Mars.

The authorities of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi curbed passenger movements for a couple of hours as they recovered a bag full of suspected RDX content in the wee hours yesterday.

A differently-abled girl was raped by a neighbour in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila on multiple occasions. She is now four months pregnant.

Sadeque Hossain Khoka, two-time mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corpora-tion and vice-chairman of BNP, is in critical condition and fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.

Onion prices have gone beyond the general people’s reach as per kg of the cooking ingredient was selling for Tk 150 at kitchen markets in the capital on Thursday, despite government’s measures to pull the reins.

Bangladesh wants a strong and effective role of the Asean in the Rohingya repatriation as the regional bloc begins its four-day summit in Bangkok today.

A woman and a female domestic help were found murdered in a flat in the capital’s Dhanmondi area last night. Police have detained two people for interrogation.

Australia’s pro-coal government yesterday threatened harsh new penalties against “apocalyptic” activism as a global wave of climate protests has become increasingly disruptive for the country’s lucrative mining industry.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday warned foreign actors against interfering in anti-government protests that erupted early last month and urged political factions to avoid “infighting”.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen downplayed the deaths and exploitation of Bangladeshi female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, claiming the number of such victims was “small”.

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation yesterday demanded amendments to some sections of the Road Transport Act-2018 that is going to be enforced today.

A parliamentary body yesterday summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission chairman and ACC investigators concerned to explain as to why the anti-graft body did not take action against former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu for his alleged involvement in plundering around Tk 4,500 crore of the state-owned bank.

At least 74 people were killed and dozens injured after cooking gas cylinders exploded on a train packed with pilgrims in Pakistan yesterday, some dying after leaping from carriages to escape the inferno, authorities said.

Some 153 Bangladeshi workers were deported on Wednesday night by the Saudi Arabian authorities, as part of their ongoing crackdown on undocumented workers in the Kingdom.

A Bangladeshi fisherman was shot dead and another was injured allegedly by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police on the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday.

Belgian authorities have been ordered to repatriate a woman who joined the Islamic State group and her two children from the camp in Syria where she is being held, a lawyer for her family said yesterday.

A man was sent to jail yesterday on charges of bludgeoning two college students with a hammer in Natore’s Naldanga on Wednesday night.

A rape case was filed against a Juba League leader with Shivalaya police station in Manikganj yesterday morning.

A Bangladeshi fisherman was shot dead and another was injured allegedly by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police on the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday.

At least two people have died and six others were injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales following his disputed election victory earlier this month, the government said Wednesday.