A police constable’s left hand was severed from the elbow when an accused hacked him during an arrest drive in Chattogram’s Lohagara yesterday morning.

Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours yesterday, further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made first his cabinet appointments after clashes between pro- and anti-government groups killed nine people.

Seven suspected members of an organ trading gang, who are mostly engaged in kidney trading, have been arrested from different places in Joypurhat on Friday night, said police.

A man was killed while his brother injured after a huge chunk of earth from a hillock fell onto a house in Sylhet’s Golapganj upazila early yesterday.

Lives of three couples and three others came to a tragic end in a three-vehicle pileup in Goplaganj’s Kashiani upazila yesterday.

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be celebrated across the country today amid festivities after two years of Covid-induced restrictions.

The health directorate is going to conduct a special campaign this month to inoculate around five crore people, aged 18 and above, who have received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccines at least four months ago.

Twenty-two leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and its associated bodies have been accused in a case of killing Jatiya Jubo Jote leader Mahabub Khan Salam.

The war in Ukraine could reach a “breaking point” by August and end in defeat for Russia before the end of the year, Kyiv’s head of military intelligence said yesterday, as fierce fighting raged in Ukraine’s east, slowing down a hoped-for Russian advance.

A journalist and his companion were stabbed allegedly by a teen gang in Narayanganj on Friday night.

The 62-year-old man arrested for allegedly shooting 10 people on the New York subway last month pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal terrorism charges.

Two groups of higher secondary students at Dhaka College and Ideal College were caught in a clash in the capital’s Science Laboratory intersection around 11:00am yesterday.

The low-lying areas in Sylhet division have submerged due to excessive rainfall in the country’s north-eastern region and in India’s Assam and Meghalaya.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has finally taken a decision to make a “conditional technical stopover” in Manchester for Dhaka-Toronto flights until the Russia-Ukraine war is over.

Syrian rebels killed 10 pro-regime fighters in northern Syria yesterday, in the deadliest such attack since a truce deal reached more than two years ago, a war monitor said.

Leading democracies yesterday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in its war with Russia while the European Union promised to hike military support for Kyiv by more than half a billion dollars.

A container loaded with imported electronic goods was gutted when a fire broke out inside a yard of Chattogram port yesterday morning.

Rab arrested three members of a doping gang from Tangail bus terminal yesterday morning.

A pickup driver was killed and another staffer injured as the vehicle collided head-on with a bus in Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila yesterday.

The ruling Awami League has picked its Cumilla city unit General Secretary Arfanul Haque as the party’s mayoral candidate in the Cumilla City Corporation polls slated for June 15.