Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready, the United Nations climate panel warned in a major report yesterday.

The cabinet yesterday approved ratifying an ILO convention that prohibits employing children under 14 in any work.

The body of a female college student was recovered from a cropland in Noakhali’s Companiganj yesterday morning.

A Chattogram court awarded a man with life term for throwing acid on a youth in 2017.

An eight-year-old girl in the capital’s Kafrul area was sexually abused allegedly by a 65-year-old man yesterday.

A Jamalpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a minor girl in the district’s Melandah upazila early yesterday.

A commercial ship of Bangladesh and its 29 crews remained stranded at the outer anchorage of a Ukrainian port because of Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Police yesterday arrested a Jubo League leader on charge of gang-raping a housewife in Laxmipur.

Bangladesh will look to consolidate their position on top of the ICC ODI Super League and ensure a whitewash against visitors Afghanistan when the two sides meet in the third match of the three-match ODI series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.

A transnational currency forgery gang joined hands with drug traffickers, and together they smuggle Phensedyl from India using fake Indian rupees printed in Pakistan.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday framed charges against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and six others in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for anti-government activities and spreading rumours.

On February 21, 1952, I went to my office by the Medical College Road from Azad’s office shortly before the shooting. Hours after the shooting, the home secretary told me that they were sending an official press note to be printed in Sangbad.

Nearly 200 nations approved a major UN climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming yesterday, at the end of a sometimes fraught two-week meeting overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The High Court yesterday decided to take opinions from some jurists and researchers on the rules of a customary law that deprives Hindu women of inheriting their deceased fathers’ properties.

Nearly 71 percent of the country’s population aged over 12 have now got at least one dose of a Covid vaccine with around 1.12 crore people receiving their first jab on Saturday.

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim AA Khan QC has laid emphasis on a collective responsibility which can actually help them move beyond talking about justice to delivering it for the Rohingyas.

Iurii Melnyk, an associate professor of journalism at the Ivan Franko National University of Ukraine’s Lviv, is keeping the world posted after Russia began its invasion on February 24. The Daily Star’s Diplomatic Correspondent Porimol Palma caught up with him on Friday for on-the-ground information.

About 150 Bangladeshis have entered Poland from Ukraine over the last two days, fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24.

Police arrested 22 villagers over the murders of a Karbari and his four sons in remote Mro Para of Bandarban’s Ruma upazila Thursday night.

At least 759 new infections were recorded and eight people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, read a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).