High levels of nitrate in the grass fed to zebras at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur was linked to the deaths of 11 of the animals last month.

The Kremlin warned yesterday there are no concrete plans for a summit between the Russian and US leaders, as diplomats scrambled to head off the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A college student working at the garage of Gangachara upazila nirbahi officer got killed yesterday after the ceiling collapsed on him.

A Bogura court yesterday sent a 55-year-old man to jail on charges of raping a four-year-old girl.

A man’s death sparked protests in Shantiganj, Sunamganj, amid allegations that he was tortured in custody at a police station.

The United Nations children’s agency would pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organisation said, with salaries unpaid for months as the country is plunged into economic crisis due to sanctions on the Taliban administration.

Criminals hacked a union parishad member to death over leasing of a water body in Jashore’s Chowgachha yesterday evening.

Contrary to popular belief, a recent study has found that the human brain remains sharp till advanced age.

Dhaka and Delhi have begun preparations for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India later this year.

An election officer has been suspended for allegedly taking Tk 4 lakh in bribes from a man running for membership in a union parishad of Rangpur’s Mithapukur.

An extraordinary leak from one of the world’s iconic private banks, Credit Suisse, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes.

As secondary schools and colleges partially resume in-person classes today, education boards have decided that SSC and HSC candidates of 2022 will need to sit for Bangla and English exams besides three optional subjects.

In an oblique reference to the Chinese way of funding infrastructure projects in other countries, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has warned of unsustainable projects that can lead to debt traps.

During the Language Movement in 1952, I was not a member of the Communist Party. I was a member of Youth League, and as a member of the organisation I worked in close collaboration with the Communist Party.

Three days after sacking Sharif Uddin, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday came up with 13 allegations against the former officer whose investigation into a land acquisition scam made headlines in 2020 and 2021.

Ekushey Padak-winning poet Quazi Rosy, who played a significant role as a prosecution witness in the war crimes case against executed Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, died at a city hospital yesterday.

Last-ditch diplomatic efforts were underway yesterday to prevent what Western powers warn could be the imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and a catastrophic European war.

As the vice president of Women’s Students’ Union, I was responsible for organising female students. I sent some of them to girls’ schools to bring the girls to the meeting at Amtala [February 21, 1952].

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was trying to spread further Bangla, its literature and the country’s culture and heritage across the world.

The government has drafted an amendment to the Evidence Act, seeking to repeal only one of the two sections that allow questioning the character of a rape victim in court.