Police yesterday recovered the body a jute mills employee from a jeep bearing stickers of the Secretariat in Bonpara Bypass area of Natore’s Baraigram upazila.

The Bangladesh Bridge Authority hired a South Koran-Bangladesh joint venture (JV) firm to build a major bridge over the Payra in Patuakhali.

Russian forces advancing on the Ukraine capital Kyiv from the northeast have stalled, British intelligence said yesterday, as Ukraine rejected Russian calls for defenders to lay down their arms in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Dhaka is a hotbed for enforced disappearances, stated a CGS report launched yesterday.

Arifa clutched her baby boy tightly to her chest as if to protect him from harm as the launch, being rammed by the bow of a much larger cargo vessel, shook violently.

Expressing their shock, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) in a statement called for prompt, impartial and effective judicial investigation into the death of political activist Nabayan Chakma Milon alias Sourav.

Police on Sunday recovered the body of Monowara Begum, a retired professor of Patuakhali Government College, from Kacha river in Patuakhali Sadar upazila, a day after she had gone missing.

A 70-year-old woman died after her son allegedly assaulted her in Mymensingh Sadar upazila yesterday.

As many as 902 Bangladeshis who became undocumented in Libya and were taken to different detention centres have been brought back home since September last year.

Snoring is the noise people make while breathing during sleep.

A teacher and a schoolgirl were killed and five students of Abdul Alim Memorial School injured after a pickup truck ran them over on the school premises in Manikganj’s Shibalaya upazila yesterday.

Accidents on rivers and subsequent fatalities have seen a gradual increase over the last three years and experts see the authorities’ poor monitoring of the waterways operations as the main reason.

The Election Commission is all set to host its second round of talks this morning.

A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight yesterday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media said there were no signs of survivors.

Rights organisation Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust has recommended changes in the Evidence Act that would block the ways in which the character of women are questioned in rape cases.

Bangladesh could not cope with the kick and bounce on offer at The Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg yesterday, suffering a seven-wicket thumping at the hands of hosts South Africa in the 10th iteration of the annual Pink Day ODI.

Amid high prices of daily essentials, many in need returned empty-handed from the TCB sales points outside the capital yesterday as they did not have “family cards”.

Ukrainian authorities yesterday said that Russia had bombed a school sheltering 400 people in the besieged port of Mariupol, as Moscow claimed that it had again fired hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, the second time it had used the next-generation weapon on its neighbour.

If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.

Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, a coalition of 22 small islands in the Bay, did not have access to electricity just a year ago.