The Tunisian coastguard has recovered two more bodies from the Mediterranean where an overcrowded boat capsized on May 9. “Two more bodies were recovered yesterday. The victims are Bangladeshis, but their identities are not known yet. We are trying to identify them,” said ASM Ashraful Islam

A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organised by Christie’s in New York -- a record price for a living artist.

Supreme Court lawyer Imtiaz Mahmood and poet Henry Swapan were granted ad-interim bails in two cases yesterday. A day after his arrest and detention in jail, Imtiaz got ad-interim bail in a case filed under the now-annulled section 57 of the ICT Act about two years ago over his Facebook posts.

A tenth-grader was allegedly kidnapped and raped by her brother-in-law for seven days at a hotel room in Patuakhali’s Kuakata upazila. The incident surfaced on Wednesday when the victim’s family members filed a case with Kalapara Police Station accusing her brother-in-law and his accomplice Milon

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to attend the 14th Islamic Summit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to be held at Makkah at the end of Ramadan. “To this end, acting Saudi ambassador in Dhaka Amer Omer Salem Omar handed

Suddenly one day, he came to know that he has a second wife. He was also told he even tortured that woman for her father’s failure to pay him Tk 1 lakh in dowry. Sazzadul Haque, executive director of Barishal-based Zam-Zam Nursing Institute, was in utter shock and disbelief when he was told

The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bank to submit a list of borrowers defaulting on their loans of over Tk 1 crore and their names and addresses to it by June 24. During hearing a writ petition, the court also asked the central bank governor to submit to it a report containing details about

Twitter has suspended the account of Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar, over allegations of propagating hate speech against the Rohingya community. Although the general had not been active on the platform for about a year now, the suspension is being deemed as a “massive victory”

The High Court yesterday issued a serious warning saying that the companies and individuals responsible for adulterating milk and curd, whoever they were, would not be spared and they must be punished.

Jute mill workers’ demonstration for arrears and better wages entered its 11th day yesterday, but no one from the authorities contacted them till last night to resolve the crisis.

A booklet promoted by the Palestinian education ministry hailing president Mahmud Abbas has received criticism and mockery online, prompting the government to stress it is not an official text.

A popular British talk show known for pitting guests against each other was cancelled yesterday after the reported suicide of a man one week after appearing on the programme.

San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies.

Students are voluntarily harvesting paddy in Tangail and Mymensingh to help farmers who are hit hard by low price. Lately, the farmers’ plight came to limelight as media reports of a farmer in Tangail’s Kalihati spraying kerosene on a part of his field and setting fire to ripe paddy had surfaced. The farmer

With sweet white scented flesh and crimson skin, lychees are almost ready to hit the market, according to farmers in Dinajpur, the northern district famous for production of the juicy summer fruit.

A 49-year-old sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for a 23rd time yesterday, creating a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, Nepali hiking officials said.

Soldiers patrolled the centre of Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal state, yesterday a day after rival political supporters clashed during campaigning for the country’s general election.

The Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) ministry has said Tk 75.61 lakh is needed for collecting and examining 1,065 samples of water supplied by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) in its 11 zones.

A father in Feni filed a case on Tuesday accusing a young man of raping his daughter multiple times over the last one year.

Five people, including two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, were killed in separate “gunfights” in three districts yesterday.