At least nine people, including five policemen, were injured as activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and police clashed on Chittagong University campus yesterday.

Another accused in the case over the gang rape of a mother of six in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila landed in jail yesterday after he surrendered before a court.

Locals confined five policemen, including a sub-inspector, to a house when the policemen were “ransacking” the house at Dakkhin Poirtola in Brahmanbaria town yesterday evening while trying to arrest a murder accused.

Unknown assailants shot a member of the Village Defence Party (VDP) dead in Ashuganj upazila yesterday morning.

They achieved the highest grades in A- and O-levels in the country, a success that makes a great platform to launch their future careers onto the global stage. While the bright minds are for sure to pursue their goals, they have not forgotten their roots, cultures, and responsibilities towards the country.

Bangladesh Chhatra League men allegedly drilled holes in the legs of a 28-year-old man on Thursday night, after failing to extort money from his father.

Farmers were harvesting boro paddy days before those could ripen in Hakaluki Haor in Moulvibazar after rain accompanied by hailstorm damaged crops on vast tracts in the last few days.

The world, it seems, is soon to see the first picture of a black hole.

A nine-year-old girl died in her classroom in Barguna's Taltali upazila yesterday as chunks of ceiling plaster fell on her.

Three Rohingya men, suspected to be robbers, were killed in a “gunfight” with police near Nayapara Refugee Camp in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country on April 21 as the Shaban moon was not sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

At least eight people, including a schoolboy, were killed and 25 others injured in road accidents in four districts since Friday evening.

A Russian engineer working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power project in Pabna's Ishwardi died allegedly after drinking locally made liquor last night while two other Russian engineers were hospitalised.

A third-grader girl was allegedly raped by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver in Noakhali's Senbagh upazila yesterday.

The daylong negotiations between the representatives of agitating jute mill workers and government officials ended without any result yesterday.

Paleontologists have found a well-preserved fossil of a four-legged amphibian ancestor of whales, a discovery that sheds new light on the mammals' transition from land to the ocean.

The UN Human Rights Office has voiced deep concern over escalating conflict between the Myanmar military and the rebel Arakan Army, which has displaced several thousand Rohingyas in Rakhine State in recent days.

Environmental disasters linked to climate change are threatening the lives and futures of over 19 million children in Bangladesh, prompting many families to push their daughters into child marriages, Unicef said yesterday.

Police yesterday detained 115 Rohingyas, including 39 women and 26 children, while they were trying to go to Malaysia through the Bay of Bengal.

The number of children who are affected by the Venezuelan crisis and who will need humanitarian aid this year is expected to more than double to reach 1.1 million, up from nearly 500,000, the UN children's agency said Thursday.