A woman was gang raped while visiting Sonakata Tengragiri Eco-park in Barguna’s Taltoli upazila.

The High Court yesterday ruled that Tufan Sarkar, a suspended Sramik League leader of Bogura who is accused of committing corruption, cannot seek bail from any court for six months for resorting to fraudulence.

Railways ministry has changed a project director, who had halted payment to Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) for supplying 10 locomotives to Bangladesh Railway breaching the contract, and posted him under a junior in his BCS batch.

A leader of the ruling Awami League was shot dead in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari yesterday.

Nine veteran Hong Kong activists face jail after they were convicted yesterday for their roles in organising one of the biggest democracy protests to engulf the city in 2019.

Bangladesh authorities must conduct prompt, thorough, impartial, and independent investigations into the death of at least 14 protesters in the country between March 26 and 28, said 11 human rights organisations in a joint statement yesterday.

An estimated 80 percent turnout was recorded despite sporadic violence and stray street clashes in the polling for the second phase of the West Bengal assembly elections for 30 seats.

Sanzid Hasan was five when his parents, impoverished residents of Mohammadpur’s Geneva Camp area, discovered that he could not communicate as easily as other children.

The Election Commission yesterday postponed all elections, including the first phase of union parishad and sixth phase of municipality polls, due to a steep rise in coronavirus infections.

The first day of the ban on ride-sharing services via motorcycles stripped over one lakh bikers of means to a livelihood until further notice.

On April 2, 1971, N. V. Podgorny, the president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, sent a message to Pakistan President Yahya Khan expressing concern at the repression let loose against the people of Bangladesh by the Pakistani army:

Some Bangladeshi organisations running Microsoft Exchange mail servers have been compromised by cyberattacks, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) in an advisory.

John Kerry, the US special president0ial envoy for climate, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on April 9 when Bangladesh will convey its climate priorities to him.

A senior BBC correspondent yesterday said he had left China, after facing legal threats and pressure from authorities over his reporting on Xinjiang rights abuses and the coronavirus pandemic.

Hefajat men unleashed mayhem in Brahmanbaria during their hartal on Sunday after being divided into seven groups, according to locals and police sources.

Bangla Academy has cut the daily opening hours of Amar Ekushey Boi Mela 2021 by two and a half hours as the fair will now close at 6:30pm everyday. The schedule of the book fair has been changed due to the recent sharp rise in Covid-19 infection rate in the country, the Academy said in a statement yesterday.

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in good health in a video meeting yesterday, one of her lawyers said, as the United States ordered its non-essential embassy staff to leave after “horrifying” violence against opponents of a coup.

A member of Jubo Samity, the youth wing of Jana Sanghati Samiti (MN Larma), was shot dead in his sleep allegedly by a member of the organisation in Babupara area of Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila early yesterday.

The immigration department of police yesterday sent a report to the attorney general’s office that contains the names and addresses of 13,931 Bangladeshi nationals with dual citizenship and dual passports for placing it before the High Court.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday urged all Indian opposition parties to unite against ruling BJP, a day before she clashes in Nandigram in a vote battle against one of her former confidante who defected to BJP, which has thrown a serious challenge to her 10 year rule in the crucial Indian state.