Amin Mohammad Hilaly, managing director of Ashaloy Housing and Developers Ltd and an accused in the NSU graft case, has reportedly gone missing from Uttara.

Missiles rained down on Ukraine killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built up areas as the weekend began, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse Russia of state “terror”. 

Rescuers in India’s northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said yesterday, after a second day of search efforts.

A 24-year-old man died after being hit by a train in Khulna city on Thursday night.

Two boys drowned while trying to catch fish in a pond in Madhupur, Tangail, yesterday.

A young man was hacked to death by unidentified assailantsyesterday in Keshabpur, Jashore.

A missing server password is holding up all payments of Evaly customers and merchants and there is seemingly no way to retrieve it.

Professor Ratan Siddique, former chairman of National Curriculum and Textbook Board, was assaulted by a mob in front of his house in the capital’s Uttara yesterday afternoon over trifles.

Akhter Hossain Tinku, a local Awami League leader and a teacher at Mirzapur United Degree College in Narail, has been suspended from the post of president of a local AL committee over the recent assault on the college principal.

Even overnight waits could not secure advance Eid-ul-Azha tickets for many holidaymakers at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday.

At least five people died of coronavirus in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, reported the Directorate General Health Services.

There were long tailbacks on Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga expressway as the government yesterday started taking tolls from motorists.

Russian missile strikes killed 21 people and wounded dozens in Ukraine’s Odessa region yesterday, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island in a major setback to the Kremlin’s invasion.

Sudanese protesters rallied again yesterday and security forces fired tear gas at them, a day after a mass demonstration drawing tens of thousands was met with the deadliest violence so far this year. 

The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada yesterday called for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan, insisting sharia law was the only model for a successful Islamic state. 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday filed an appeal against his extradition to the United States, as supporters denounced the British government.

At least 37 Bangladeshis were reportedly detained by the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) when they were trying to illegally enter the country by boat.

Cattle farmers, particularly those from flood-hit areas, are in fear of incurring losses from the sale of sacrificial animals ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha due to flooding, rising prices of cattle feed and a lower number of customers.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a man who was killed after being hit by a train in Shamshernagar Keshuluti area of Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila yesterday morning.

A Bangladeshi haji is being lauded for finding and returning around seven lakh CFA francs to its owner -- a pilgrim from Burkina Faso – in Saudi Arabia’s Medina city.