India skipper Rohit Sharma put on an awe-inspiring display of hitting as the hosts cantered to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Bangladesh in the second T20I at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot yesterday. The win levelled the three-match T20I series 1-1, with the decider to be played in Nagpur on Sunday.

Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal, a freedom fighter and lawmaker of Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon), passed away at a hospital in India early yesterday at the age of 67.

The US has condemned Myanmar’s inaction in creating conditions conducive to a voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh is likely to be hit by its own “carbon bomb” once its 30 coal-based power plants go operational altogether by 2031, says a new report.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her stance on not allowing industries on arable land, saying that the country’s industrialisation would not come at the cost of its agriculture sector, BSS reports.

The estimated cost of constructing a third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been increased by 40 percent. It is now a Tk-20,598 crore project.

Matiur Rahman, editor and publisher of Bangla daily Prothom Alo, was sued yesterday in connection with the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a ninth grader of Dhaka Residential Model College.

The embattled vice chancellor of Jahangirnagar University yesterday held the agitating students and teachers responsible for the current crisis at the university.

The crisis at Jahangirnagar University seems far from over as the teachers and students agitating for the vice-chancellor’s resignation defied a university ban and staged protests on the campus yesterday.

A vibrant Bangladesh team have the chance to continue their momentum and clinch their first ever T20I series win over India when they take on the hosts in the second T20I at Rajkot’s Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium today even as the threat of cyclone ‘Maha’ looms on the horizon.

Amnesty International yesterday said the Bangladeshi authorities have allegedly killed 466 people last year under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be “a wave of extrajudicial executions”.

Their leaders claim that they have committees up to village level across the country. If we go by that claim, Krishak League should have at least a whopping 39 lakh leaders across the country.

Two days before Buet student Abrar was tortured to death, some of the suspects held two meetings at their dorm canteen and guest room and decided to beat him up and evict him if his involvement with Shibir was found.

Chhatra League men yesterday assaulted teachers and students who had kept Jahangirnagar University Vice-chancellor Prof Farzana Islam confined to her residence demanding her resignation over corruption allegations.

Former foreign minister M Morshed Khan yesterday tendered his resignation to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, citing personal grounds.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has dismissed the Centre for Policy Dialogue’s suspicion over the calculation of country’s high GDP growth, saying poverty has eroded significantly in the country since 2001.

Asean leaders have reiterated the need to find a comprehensive and durable solution to the Rohingya crisis by addressing the root causes of the conflict in Rakhine State.

A municipality mayor has established what appears to be a small port on the Hurasagor river at Brishalikha in Pabna’s Bera upazila.

They carry words like “Awami”, “League”, “Bangabandhu” or “Muktijodhha” in their names, but they don’t have any charter, full-fledged committee or permanent office. They are also disowned by the ruling Awami League.

Freedom fighter and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka passed away yesterday in the USA.