The High Court yesterday ordered a judicial enquiry into the allegation of humiliation of a college teacher in Narail on June 17.

Sri Lanka’s acting president renewed the country’s state of emergency yesterday ahead of a parliamentary vote to pick a new head of state -- a poll in which he is a leading candidate.

Chattogram Cyber Tribunal yesterday sent two directors of Deepto TV and its chief operating officer to jail in three cases filed under the controversial section 57 of the ICT act.

Indian army chief General Manoj Pande yesterday lauded Bangladesh Army’s leadership and overall high standards.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered generals to prioritise destroying Ukraine’s long-range missile and artillery weapons after Western-supplied weapons were used to strike Russian supply lines.

The body of a 17-year-old train passenger was recovered yesterday from the Tulsiganga river in Joypurhat’s Akkelpur upazila, 14 hours after he fell off the train when it was crossing a bridge on Sunday evening.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, who was stabbed by a mugger in Khilgaon on Sunday afternoon, died at a city hospital early yesterday. 

Dozens of Thai democracy activists were targeted by the controversial Israeli spyware known as Pegasus during the height of intense anti-government protests, according to an international digital rights group report.

A young man who gunned down 17 people at his former high school in Parkland, Florida went on trial yesterday, with jurors set to hand down either the death penalty or a life sentence.

The five Conservative contenders still vying to be Britain’s next prime minister were set to clash in a second televised debate yesterday when they are set to renew hostilities over tax policy and issues such as transgender rights.

At least two persons were killed and three others injured as a Dhaka-bound pick-up overturned on the Padma Bridge last night, bringing vehicular movement on the bridge to a halt for about 15 minutes.

A six-member delegation of the European Parliament arrived in Dhaka yesterday to learn about the country’s trade with Europe and its progress in adapting to more demanding trade standards.

After her husband’s sudden death, Jamuna Begum is left hopeless.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday advised the candidates of SSC and its equivalent examinations to be prepared for a tight exam schedule this year.

They are lawmakers. Yet they took the law into their own hands.

Orphaned elephants manage to overcome the loss of their mother by living in a herd, highlighting the importance of a social life for the species, according to a study.

Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East’s largest, official media said yesterday.

Four people died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday, the DGHS said in a press release.

Dhaka Wasa yesterday proposed resetting its tariffs such that low-income people can get water at a much lower rate than the wealthy.

Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after Moscow said its forces would step up military operations in “all operational areas”.