The government yesterday removed ward councillor AKM Mominul Haque Sayeed of Dhaka South City Corporation for being “absent in meetings and staying abroad without permission”.

Bangladesh has ranked 88th out of 117 qualifying countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019 with a score of 25.8, which is higher than India and Pakistan.

Three officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), including a former managing director, were sent to jail after a Dinajpur court rejected their bail prayers in a Tk 244 crore coal scam case yesterday.

A Barguna court yesterday rejected bail prayer of an accused in the Rifat Sharif murder case. Al Kaiyum submitted the bail prayer with the District and Sessions Judge’s Court. Judge Md Asaduzzaman denied his bail after hearing from the prosecution and defence.

A 15-year-old boy, who was brutally knifed by masked criminals in Ishwarganj upazila on Tuesday, died yesterday. A former Chattra League man was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of the SSC examinee.

Ferry operations at Shimulia-Kathalbari route have remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day because of navigability crisis.

Although the three hill district councils spend overTk 1.5 crore each year for sending their and the CHT affairs ministry’s staff members abroad for study tours, the application of knowledge from such trips remains vague.

Pain perception is essential for survival, but how much something hurts can sometimes be amplified or suppressed: for example, soldiers who sustain an injury in battle often recall not feeling anything at the time.

The sign greeting visitors at the entrance of Igbo-Ora in southwest Nigeria welcomes people to a place unlike anywhere on the planet: “TWINS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”.

A New Zealand woman has been jailed in Singapore for six and half months for biting a policewoman’s arm after a drunken night out while visiting her sister.

A French court yesterday fined eight activists 500 euros each for stealing official portraits of President Emmanuel Macron from public buildings as part of a protest over climate change.

Twitter said Tuesday world leaders are “not above” the rules of the online platform and could see their messages removed or demoted for egregious conduct violating its terms of service.

Activists from the environmental pressure group Extinction Rebellion yesterday vowed to challenge a blanket protest ban imposed by the London police.

The parents of a British teen killed in a road crash involving an American diplomat’s wife met with President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday to urge that she be returned to Britain to face justice.

Papua New Guinea’s ex-prime minister Peter O’Neill won a temporary reprieve in a corruption case yesterday when a court agreed to a brief suspension of his arrest warrant.

Bye bye to bunny hops: when US astronauts next touch down on the moon, expect them to walk almost as they do on Earth, thanks to a new generation of spacesuits offering key advantages over those of the Apollo-era.

Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria yesterday as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday framed a charge against Wahidul Haque, former acting director general of National Security Intelligence (NSI), for allegedly committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday handed down death penalty to five Gaibandha men for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

Nobody “knows” where it is. The 4,500 crore taka laundered from BASIC bank between 2009 and 2013 has apparently just disappeared.