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.

A drugstore owner was hacked to death in Tulatla area of Patuakhali’s Sadar upazila on Friday.

A schoolboy was stabbed to death while another was injured by another teenager in Chattogram’s Eidgaon early yesterday.

Police rescued a child, who was abducted from the port city’s Roufabad area on April 13, and arrested three people from Chandpur early yesterday in this regard.

Two people were killed and two others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Today is the 51st death anniversary of valiant freedom fighter and intellectual Lt Col Muhammad Abdul Qadir.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of Shabnam Huq, wife of Arham Masudul Huq, chief executive officer of Dhaka Bank Foundation, said a press release. Her relatives, friends and admirers are requested to pray for the salvation of the departed soul.

A family called 999 for police help, but three of its members were beaten up by the law enforcers instead. Another member of the family has been behind bars for a week in a case filed by those accused of attacking the family.

Hundreds of farmers in the northeastern region of the country continued to suffer immensely because of the flash flood.

Doctors successfully implanted a device inside the brain of a patient with Parkinson’s disease.

The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and people’s basic rights, experts said yesterday.

Nepal is asking citizens living abroad to deposit funds in domestic banks as part of efforts to ensure the financial system has enough liquidity and to preserve foreign exchange reserves, finance finister Janardan Sharma said yesterday.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested four members of a human trafficking syndicate, including the ring leader, from the capital’s Rampura and Hatirjheel area with 27 passports, 100 forged visas and 125 air tickets.

A 26-year-old man died after being beaten up by a team of policemen in the Kazir Chawra area of Lalmonirhat on Thursday.

Sending miniature robots deep inside the human skull to treat brain disorders has long been the stuff of science fiction -- but it could soon become reality, according to a California start-up.

The World Health Organization yesterday said it was monitoring cases of hepatitis of unknown origin in dozens of children in Britain, some of whom required a liver transplant.