Warmer days are ahead for the residents of Rajshahi and Pabna, as the weatherman has predicted the heatwave to continue in the northern districts for the next few days.

Hriday Chandra Mondal, science teacher of Binodpur Ramkumar High School in Munshiganj Sadar upazila, taught students yesterday.

The High Court is today going to hear the rules questioning filing and initiation of a corruption case against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, his wife, and her mother.

A woman was tied to a tree and beaten mercilessly by her neighbours yesterday for allegedly stealing bamboo in Habiganj’s Baniachong on Sunday.

A court in Naogaon on Sunday sent the headmaster of Daul Barbakpur High School of Mohadebpur upazila to jail for his role behind the hijab controversy.

A US delegation led by US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain yesterday visited the Hindu Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Kutupalong.

Sri Lanka’s embattled president announced 17 new ministerial appointments yesterday, notably leaving out members of his own family, and expressed regret for his government’s handling of a devastating economic crisis that has led to widespread protests.

A upazila parishad chairman in Gopalpur, Tangail, alleged that he received death threats from the local lawmaker.

A sub-inspector of Sitakunda Model Police Station has been closed for allegedly assaulting an accused’s wife when the SI went to his house to arrest him.

The Padma Multipurpose Bridge Authority has said the country’s biggest bridge is likely to be opened for traffic in June this year as they have already completed 92 percent of its construction works till now.

A glyph representing a day called “7 Deer” on mural fragments dating from the third century BC found inside the ruins of a pyramid in Guatemala marks the earliest-known use of the Maya calendar, one of this ancient culture’s renowned achievements.

The government has decided to not construct any more surface roads in Haor areas.

More than 20 Israelis and Palestinians were wounded yesterday in several incidents in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, two days after major violence at the site.

Weeks after the first blow of early flash flood, another flood started inundating crops in a haor in Sunamganj yesterday.

A man was shot dead in what Rab said was a gunfight between officers and armed gang members in Golabari area of Cumilla early yesterday.

Mali’s army said Saturday that it had killed “a dozen terrorists” including a French-Tunisian jihadist in air strikes in the centre of the Sahel nation.

The death toll from floods that have battered South Africa’s east coast has risen to 443, including a rescuer, a regional official said yesterday, as dozens more are still missing.

Despite a court order, Kumarkhali police failed to submit a probe report in a case filed over the kidnapping and gang rape of a 24-year-old woman.

A parliamentary body yesterday asked all authorities concerned not to harass UAE-bound migrant workers on tourist visas at the Dhaka airport.

Police recovered the body of a union parishad member at Gabtoli in Mymensingh’s Muktagachha upazila yesterday.