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.

Tens of millions of Indians voted yesterday in the penultimate round of a seven-phase general election, with the opposition seeking a united stand to deny Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term.

It was late March. Around 3:30pm, the Biramer Pachgachchi Govt Primary School was already closed, an hour too early. So was the nearby Kashirpara Govt Primary School. Both schools face a similar problem --neither the students nor the teachers are much interested in class.

The bodies of three members of a family were recovered from a one-storey house in the capital’s Uttarkhan yesterday.

Support is growing in Germany for a “mosque tax” to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or “radical” foreign funding sources, a media report said yesterday.

A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft’s landing gear failed, forcing the jet into an emergency landing with no front wheels yesterday morning, an official said.

A murder suspect was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram city’s Bakalia area early yesterday.

A leader of the pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal (JSD) has been missing since he was picked up by plainclothes men from Sirajganj on Friday, alleged BNP and JSD leaders.

Bus driver Nuruzzaman, one of the accused in the murder case of nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania, gave confessional statement at a Kishoreganj court on Saturday.

About 50 percent of public transport workers have vision problems, according to a survey conducted in the capital’s Sayedabad among 1,200 drivers and their assistants.

A day labourer died after his co-worker pumped air into his body through his rectum in Pabna, local police said.

A couple of Bangladeshi origin, who ran a sweets-making business in New Zealand’s Auckland, have been jailed for their two-year exploitation of Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Performing umrah has become uncertain for almost 20,000 people amid a crisis of plane tickets.

After aborting the first landing attempt at the Yangon airport in bad weather, the ill-fated Biman plane on May 8 went up to 5,000 feet and circled near the airport for 15 minutes.

Sunil Ambris’s 126-ball 148 headlined West Indies’ five-wicket victory against Ireland in a tri-nation ODI series match in Dublin yesterday, with the tourists hunting down the target of 328 in 47.5 overs. Having lost two of their three matches so far, with one game abandoned, Ireland are out of contention to qualify for the final.

Migrants and activists want the visiting Bangladeshi officials in Malaysia to negotiate regularisation of undocumented Bangladeshis before starting any fresh recruitments.