At least 100 candidates missed the recruitment tests for primary schoolteachers at a centre in Barishal yesterday due to adverse weather.

Two siblings drowned in the Buriganga river yesterday as a boat capsized after being hit by a launch near the capital’s Sadarghat launch terminal.

Over 1,000 unidentified people have been sued in two cases filed with Patuakhali’s Kalapara Police Station over the death of a Chinese engineer and vandalism at Payra power plant.

Passengers of Rajshahi-bound Silk City Express caught a man and handed him over to police in Ishwardi railway station area on Thursday night for allegedly harassing a schoolgirl sexually inside the train’s toilet.

President Donald Trump said yesterday he is in “no hurry” to bomb Iran, revealing that US forces were “cocked and loaded” to retaliate after the downing of a US spy drone but that he called them back in order to avoid mass casualties.

Toufiq M Seraj, managing director of real estate company Sheltech (Pvt.) Limited, yesterday died on a Qatar-bound flight from Dhaka.

As recruitment of 9,680 police constables is going to begin on June 22 in all 64 districts across the country, the Police Headquarters yesterday warned against all sorts of monetary exchange and other unfair means in this regard.

Traffickers exploit Rohingya men, women, and children from refugee camps for both sex and labour trafficking, including domestic servitude, although the scale is unknown, a US report said.

Two teenage students lost their lives under the wheels of a Dhaka-bound bus in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila yesterday.

A Bogura court yesterday sent former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over misuse of power in selling a government property.

The High Court yesterday asked the authorities concerned to conduct dope and vision tests on drivers’ licence seekers.

New York state lawmakers on Wednesday passed one of the world’s most ambitious laws aimed at countering climate change, under which fossil fuel power plants and gasoline cars will be phased out by 2050.

Two Canadian naval vessels sailed through the Taiwan Strait, Taipei’s defence ministry said, in the latest naval passage likely to irk Beijing.

Qatar distributed $100 grants to thousands of families in Gaza yesterday, an AFP correspondent reported, part of an understanding with Israel intended to restore calm to the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

A Hungarian court yesterday jailed four human traffickers for life for the deaths of 71 migrants whose decomposing bodies were found crammed inside a truck dumped on an Austrian motorway.

Pakistan’s top judge has vowed to set up more than 100 gender-based violence courts in the patriarchal country regularly ranked as among the most dangerous in the world for women.

A schoolgirl was killed after allegedly being raped and two other girls were allegedly violated in separate incidents in three districts in the last two days.

Three people, including an alleged leader of a criminal gang, were killed in separate “gunfights” with the law enforcers in Dhaka and two other districts yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed until July 1 a High Court verdict that granted bail to Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, former Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3, in a murder case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to plant and nurture saplings in their respective workplaces and houses in an attempt to protect the environment.