Police on Friday arrested a former temporary data entry operator of the Election Commission from Cox’s Bazar’s Matarbari over helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi national identity cards.

A man was caught red-handed by a mob over molesting a college student in the capital’s Shahbagh area yesterday.

The sale of some basic commodities by the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh starts in Dhaka today in the first phase to deliver the items to one crore low-income families at subsidised prices.

Thirteen people died from Covid-19 and 368 others tested positive for the virus in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

At least 100 new species -- from monkeys to mussels -- were found in Myanmar in a decade, according to conservationists who said discoveries during the country’s fleeting period of openness revealed “astonishing biodiversity”.

A British television crew was ambushed outside Kyiv earlier this week, leaving one journalist wounded, their employer Sky News said.

The Kremlin said on Saturday that the West was behaving like a bandit by cutting economic relations over the conflict in Ukraine but that Russia was far too big to be isolated as the world was much larger than just the United States and Europe.

China’s military budget -- the second-largest in the world after the United States -- is set to increase by 7.1 percent in 2022, Beijing announced yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday sued 15 people in three cases for their alleged involvement in dodging Tk 105.10cr government revenue.

Police in Gazipur allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman, causing a miscarriage last week.

A man, sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was right under the nose of law enforcers in Dhaka for 21 years.

At least 25 people, including a member of the police, were injured in a clash between the supporters of the Jubo League and BNP in Dumki upazila of Patukhali yesterday.

An 11-member delegation of the food ministry is due to go on a ten-day tour of the UK and Turkey from March 8 but no one knows the schedule and budget yet, raising questions about the need for the trip when the government is watching its expenditure for the pandemic.

The High Court five years ago allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to conduct enquiries and investigations into any type of corruption and take necessary action against the offenders, but the graft watchdog failed to bring the Bangladeshis, who deposited money in overseas banks and purchased properties abroad, to book.

The government is planning to resume full-fledged classes at schools and colleges as 84 percent secondary students have already received two doses of Covid-19 vaccine and the daily positivity rate is on its way down.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) elected two new faces for the topmost party posts yesterday.

Bangladesh Shipping Corporation showed sheer negligence by allowing Banglar Samriddhi to sail to a war zone in Ukraine, claimed leaders of Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers’ Association yesterday.

Bangladesh needs to end the easy policy measures it ushered in to soften the blow of the global coronavirus pandemic, closely monitoring the bank asset quality and inflation, and stand ready to normalise its monetary policy, said the International Monetary Fund.

A man was sent to jail yesterday on charge of raping a girl who has disabilities in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, said police.

A Khulna court on Thursday sent a lecturer of Khulna University in a case filed over torturing his wife for dowry.