A 40-year-old man was hacked to death in front of his wife in Bhatpara area of Narail’s Lohagara early yesterday.

A 17-year-old college student died by suicide in Dhunat, Bogura early yesterday, three days after an attempted gang rape by her neighbours.

Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif said he looks forward to working with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for a better future of the two countries and for achieving the common vision of peace and lasting prosperity in the region.

Private bus operators yesterday started selling tickets to those who would go to their hometowns for the Eid.

Pakistan’s powerful military has dismissed ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s accusation that the United States had conspired to topple him in a parliamentary vote of confidence.

The government has established a dedicated centre for migrant workers to reduce the hassles they face while migrating abroad and returning home.

A Bangladeshi teenager was sent to jail in India on Wednesday for illegally crossing into the neighbouring country to buy his favourite brand of chocolate.

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.

Police, army and volunteer rescuers yesterday widened the search for dozens still missing five days after the deadliest storm to strike South Africa’s coastal city of Durban in living memory as the death toll rose to nearly 400.

Sri Lanka yesterday urged its citizens overseas to send home money to help pay for desperately needed food and fuel after announcing a default on its $51 billion foreign debt.

A total of 2.3 million people, aged one year and above, will get oral cholera vaccines from next month in five diarrhoea-prone areas in the capital.

The World Health Organization’s emergency committee unanimously agreed that now is not the time to lower the guard on Covid-19, the group’s head told a press conference yesterday.

Two Rohingyas were shot after allegedly a group of “Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army” supporters attacked them in Ukhiya camp in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday night.

About one-third of secondary students and one-fifth of primary students remained absent from schools as educational institutions resumed in-person classes after Covid-induced closure.

A Bangladeshi expatriate was killed in a road accident in Brunei on Tuesday, said his family.

A housewife has been murdered in her home in Nothkhola Uttarpara village of Tangail’s Basail upazila.

Hriday Chandra Mondal, maths teacher of Binodpur Ramkumar High School in Munshiganj Sadar, said he would not be able to continue the job if the government did not ensure his security.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday banned 10 members of Sikder family and  two officials of Sikder Group from using international credit cards for two years as they took loans from National Bank Ltd beyond their credit card limit grossly violating the banking rules.