A teenager was abducted, held hostage for four days and gang-raped by two youths in the capital’s Lalbagh, police said.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed 13 cases against 29 people, including fugitive PK Halder, for embezzling about Tk 523 crore of FAS Finance and Investment.

An expert team yesterday started the process of shipping 500 tonnes of Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane, a banned toxic pesticide, to France for destruction.

A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has remained grounded in Malaysia since Tuesday due to a crack on its windshield.

Md Belal Hossain, a pensioner from Old Dhaka, was livid when he picked up the morning paper on Wednesday: he learnt that Wasa was pushing to hike the water tariff by up to 40 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for spreading the country’s vibrant cultural activities like fairs and festivals to every district to attract the young generation to Bengali language, literature, and culture.

Political parties that have yet to make their recommendations for forming the new election commission can still send the names of their nominees to the search committee by February 24.

Russia said yesterday some of its military units were returning to their bases after exercises near Ukraine and mocked repeated Western warnings about a looming invasion, but Nato said it had yet to see any sign of de-escalation on the ground.

“Ei poth jodi na sesh hoi….” The voice in the Uttam Kumar-Suchitra Sen-starrer film “Saptapadi’, which has kept Bengali music lovers spellbound for generations, has fallen forever silent.

On the night of February 20, Zahedul Huq, Shelley, Gazi, Sultan, Mansur of Naogaon and I sat by the pond of Fazlul Haque Hall to discuss what can be done the next day.

Former lawmaker MA Awal was the mastermind behind the killing of trader Md Shahinuddin, a police probe found.

Fortify Rights has urged ASEAN to support the establishment of a UN Security Council-mandated global embargo on the sale of weapons and military technology to Myanmar.

Condemned convicts Pradeep Kunar Das and Liakat Ali yesterday filed three separate appeals with the High Court, seeking cancellation of their punishments and requesting acquittal.

The Directorate General of Health Services plans to inoculate one crore people with the first jab in a special vaccination campaign on February 26.

The Malaysian High Court yesterday barred the country’s immigration department from deporting Mohamed Khairuzzaman, former Bangladeshi high commissioner to Malaysia.

The Rab in separate drives yesterday arrested eight more people who brandished firearms and sharp weapons during a clash over elections to Khagaria Union Parishad in Chattogram’s Satkania on February 7.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule questioning a discriminatory provision regarding the appointment of marriage registrars.

More than five lakh registered vehicles are now on the road without fitness clearance mainly due to poor monitoring by the authorities amid the pandemic.

A Dhaka court yesterday directed the officer-in-charge of Cantonment Police Station execute the arrest warrant for former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu by March 24 in a case filed for siphoning Tk 183.92 crore to Dubai.

A court in Moulvibazar yesterday sent a youth to jail in a case filed for raping a three-year-old girl in Kulaura upazila on Friday.