The police are involved in more extrajudicial killings than the Rapid Action Battalion, found a report by the Centre for Governance Studies.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said an uninterrupted democratic process for the past 13 years has been behind the unprecedented development of Bangladesh.

Secondary and higher secondary schools will resume in-person classes on all subjects from March 15, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

A Bangladeshi woman died in a fire at a guest house on Kolkata’s Mirza Ghalib Street early yesterday.

A 35-year-old man died and four others were critically injured as a wall collapsed at a construction site in Chhoto Bongram area of Godagari, Rajshahi, yesterday morning.

Most business owners have shut up shop and fled Ukraine’s Mikolaiv, but florist Angela Kalisnik continues to sell tulips and roses just a short drive away from the frontline.

Voting was underway in Turkmenistan yesterday for a tightly-controlled leadership election that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia’s first father-son succession.

With edible oil fast vanishing from retailers’ shelves in the wake of a supply crunch, a retired government official turned out to be on the list of hoarders after stockpiling 512 litres of soybean oil.

More than 70 original Nasa photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000).

Badal Khandaker went to Serbia in November last year with hopes of a well-paying job that would ensure a better life for his family back home.

Bangladesh has urged the Food and Agriculture Organization to set up a digital hub for the Asia-Pacific region so that developing countries can increase their agricultural production using modern technologies.

Three policemen, including one inspector, have been closed for allegedly beating an on-duty nurse at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.

Left Democratic Alliance, a platform of left-leaning political parties, yesterday called a half-day general strike on March 28 protesting the price hike of daily essentials.

A woman died in a house fire in Cumilla’s Barura upazila early yesterday.

A college student drowned while bathing in the Bay of Bengal near the Sugandha Beach Point in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Within one and a half years into the dredging of the Charalkata river, the riverbed has filled up again at different points as sand and earth kept on the banks of the river got deposited to the riverbed in the rainy season.

Fleeing the horrors of war in Ukraine, Bangladeshis are finding new hope in other European countries.

The body of engineer Md Hadisur Rahman, who was killed in a rocket attack on the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessel stranded at a Ukraine port, is expected to reach Dhaka on March 13 or 14, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam yesterday.

The Election Commission is all set to begin a series of talks with cross-section citizens from tomorrow.

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent “any potential spills” that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters.