At least five people, including three women, were killed and more than 100 injured as a passenger train derailed on a bridge in Moulvibazar late last night.

A clearing and forwarding (C&F) agent took delivery of nine consignments of various goods from Chattogram’s Shah Amanat International Airport in December last year allegedly using forged documents.

There is no visible decline in corruption by government officials and employees despite significant increases in their salaries and other benefits over the years, the Transparency International Bangladesh has found in a study.

A Supreme Court full bench yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters at 12 and a half years in 1971.

The motorboat used by traffickers for the journey by sea from the coast of Libya to Europe was barely capable of carrying 35 people. Yet, 75 people, including the 64 Bangladeshis, were crammed on board.

Mohammad Kabir Hossain, 43, had dreamt of building a house for his family using the money he saved from an overseas job. That dream, however, took a backseat when his third child was diagnosed with cancer. Kabir used up all his savings, sold whatever land he had, along with his grocery store, for his child’s treatment.

Police recovered the body of a woman, suspected to have been raped before being killed, in Rajshahi while arrested four people, including a police constable, on rape charges in three other districts in the last two days.

Half of the defaulted bank loans amounting to Tk 50,942 crore is with top 300 borrowers, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told parliament yesterday, blaming banks for not choosing borrowers wisely.

In front of the Park Plaza hotel in Nottingham, a bunch of local fans were standing with autograph books in the morning yesterday.

Three people, including two brothers, were killed in so-called gunfights with Rab in Chattogram and Gazipur while another person died in an alleged gun-battle between two groups of drug traders in Meherpur yesterday.

Waking up early in the morning, Jaheda Begum finishes her household chores quickly. Taking her breakfast, she comes out of her home in a Rohingya camp and rushes to a place where Rohingya women like her meet every day at 9:00am.

At least three local private banks suffered major cyberattacks last month, raising concern about the robustness of their security systems against a growing threat of scammers.

Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews played key roles in Sri Lanka’s stunning 20-run World Cup win over England that revived the race for semi-final berths at Headingley on Friday.

Seventeen of the 64 Bangladeshi migrants, who had been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for nearly three weeks, returned home yesterday afternoon.

Top-ranked ODI bowler Jasprit Bumrah said yesterday that the pitches in England used for white ball cricket are the “flattest tracks” he has ever bowled on, adding that there is barely any movement either in the air or off the pitch.

Police found Syed Iftekhar Alam Sourav, nephew of former state minister for home Sohel Taj, in Mymensingh yesterday, 11 days after he went missing from Chattogram.

Australia opener David Warner made Bangladesh pay for an early drop with a big hundred as the reigning champions piled on the runs in a World Cup match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham yesterday.

Expressing concern over inadequate help for farmers, leading agricultural economists yesterday suggested formation of a special fund from where the growers would receive price support during harvesting period.

Former agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday blasted Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for his budgetary proposal to increase tax at source on family savings certificate from five percent to 10 percent.

Kane Williamson anchored New Zealand to a tense four-wicket victory at Edgbaston on Wednesday after an astonishing stroke of luck when South Africa failed to review an edge from the Kiwi captain.