Unidentified people yesterday torched office documents, certificates, and medals won by the students of Kalsindur Higher Secondary School, famous for producing female footballers, in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila.

Swarnalata Paribahan bus helper Lalon Miah yesterday confessed to a Kishoreganj court that he, along with driver Nuruzzaman and another man, gang-raped nurse Shahinoor Akhter Tania before shoving her off the running bus, said police.

Bangladeshi police prevented dozens of Rohingya Muslims, most of them women, about to be trafficked to Malaysia by boat, authorities said yesterday.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) has urged the international community to cut off all financial and other support to Myanmar’s military.

Identities of eight more Bangladeshis feared dead in Thursday’s Mediterranean Sea boat capsize have been confirmed.

Sri Lanka yesterday announced a curfew for a second straight night after a man was killed by sword-wielding rioters in an escalating anti-Muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks.

A Jubo League activist was stabbed to death by a group of unidentified assailants near Mrittunjoy School in Mymensingh town early yesterday.

The NBR and FBCCI yesterday said they had set aside their differences and had agreed to move forward with the government’s plan to implement the new VAT law from July 1.

Anyone operating a non-motorised vehicle or driving violating the speed limits on the highways will be slapped a fine of Tk 10,000, says the draft of a new law.

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

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be moved to the Keraniganj Central Jail after being discharged from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

State Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Imran Ahmad yesterday expressed hope that the labour market in Malaysia will soon be open for Bangladeshi workers.

Rab seized about 340 grams of cocaine worth an estimated Tk 2 crore from an inter-city bus in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Sunday and arrested two people in this connection, said a press release issued by the elite force.

Four more patients suffered extreme side effects from the antibiotics they were administered with through intravenous infusion at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night.

The number of Bangladeshis feared to have died off the Tunisian coast in Friday’s boat capsize may go up, said the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) based on the information communicated by the Tunisian Red Crescent.

The pro-Awami League student body Chhatra League yesterday announced its 301-member full-fledged central committee, touching off controversy and demonstration by some of those who could not make it to the new committee.

The High Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction at the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) for not complying with its order to examine the quality of water supplied by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) through a committee.

To provide better public service at a root level, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recommended appointing BCS cadre officials as officers-in-charge of police stations.

A seventh grader was allegedly raped by a 65-year-old man at her home in Savar yesterday.

Chinese airlines yesterday conducted test flights at a new mega-airport in Beijing that is set to become one of the world’s busiest after it opens later this year.