A roster of Olympic robots that will do everything from welcoming visitors to transporting javelins has been unveiled as Tokyo works to showcase Japanese technology at next year’s Summer Games.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher on charge of raping a first-grader in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila on Sunday.

Around 400kms of roads and highways under the Roads and Highways Depart-ment have been damaged by the floods across the country.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday sued an additional chief engineer of Dhaka South City Corporation and his spouse for amassing Tk 3.7 crore worth of wealth from beyond the known source of income.

The Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday suspended Priya Saha, one of its organising secretaries, on disciplinary grounds following her recent comments made to the US president.

After living in the open for 10 days, 46-year-old Kulsum Begum and her children returned home on Sunday morning.

An Israeli military court yesterday sentenced a Palestinian to life in prison for murdering an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank last year, the army said.

A man allegedly killed his wife and 10-month-old son before attempting suicide at his home in Parnanduali village of Magura Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Travellers suffered for around seven hours at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka yesterday due to a power outage and the resulting water crisis.

The man who was killed by a mob in Narayanganj on Saturday on suspicion of being a child kidnapper was actually the speech-impaired father of the child, said his brother.

Three people were detained in connection with the murder of Taslima Begum Renu, the single mother who was beaten to death by a mob on Saturday in the capital’s Uttar Badda.

More than 22,000 people packed a Moscow square Saturday to demand free and fair local polls, incensed by the authorities’ refusal to put popular opposition candidates on the ballot.

The government yesterday unveiled two decade-long masterplans to protect five rivers in Dhaka and two in Chattogram against grabbing and pollution, and enhance their navigability.

Rab yesterday arrested the prime suspect in the case filed in connection with the killing and rape of a school girl in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Spices and vegetables have become significantly pricier over the last one week largely due to inundated farmlands.

Iran’s ambassador to Britain yesterday warned against escalating tensions as a UK official declined to rule out sanctions in response to Tehran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police has undertaken a unique initiative to deliver services to peoples’ neighbourhoods.

Bangladesh is facing huge population and development related challenges owing to high prevalence of child marriage, early pregnancy, and sluggish progress in family planning and poor youth unemployment, said experts yesterday.

A day after Twitter suspended the accounts of several Iranian state media outlets, the social networking service said Saturday it acted after harassment of people linked to the Baha’i faith.