The hearing of a money laundering case against Prashanta Kumar Halder, former managing director of erstwhile NRB Global Bank, will be held on August 10 in Kolkata, India.

Western finance chiefs condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine at G20 talks in Indonesia Friday, accusing Russia of sending a “shockwave” through the world economy and its technocrats of complicity in the war’s alleged atrocities.

Two childrenaged three and four drowned yesterday after falling into a pond in Bagerhat’s Mongla upazila. 

The body of a final-year student of Bangladesh University of  Engineering and Technology (Buet) was recovered from the Padma river  yesterday, nearly 24 hours after he went missing. 

Installation of rail track on the lower deck of Padma Bridge is likely to start from next week, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said yesterday. 

A mob yesterday vandalised a temple, a grocery store and several houses of the Hindu community in Sahapara area of Lohagara, Narail.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next week focusing on the “peace process” and elections, the Palestinian foreign ministry said Thursday.

The checkposts at the Benapole-Petrapole point on the India-Bangladesh border have been swarming with travellers since a week before Eid-ul-Azha.

A group of influential locals have fined a rape accused Tk 5,000 at a village arbitration in  Cumilla’s Lalmai upazila in a bid to protect him from legal punishment.

Bangladesh is the most gender-equal country among South Asian nations, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022.

Bangladesh has the lowest proportion of youths aged between 15 and 24 without secondary education level skills in South Asia, found a recent study.

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak came out on top in the latest round of voting yesterday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain’s next prime minister, followed by bookmaker favourite Penny Mordaunt.

Police have submitted the charge sheet against a suspended constable of Armed Police Battalion, for raping a minor in December, last year.

The health directorate reported six Covid-related deaths in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday. 

Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia in central Ukraine yesterday, killing at least 20 people including three children, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called “an open act of terrorism”.

Four women died after their boat capsized in Gungiajuri hoar of Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila on Wednesday night.

A policeman and his accomplice were sent to jail yesterday on charges of stealing gold from a trader on Wednesday.

The ongoing mild heat wave may continue till today morning in different parts the country, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in a bulletin valid for 24 hours from 9:00am yesterday.

Dozens of countries from around the world called on Russia Wednesday to halt the war in Ukraine.

The vaccine manufacturing and research plant project in Gopalganj saw no progress over one year due to red tape.