Police yesterday arrested a college teacher and a landlord on charges of raping a college student in Sherpur town on Wednesday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday again asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit, this time by April 20, the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

Nato is not seeing a pull-back of Russian forces in Ukraine and expects “additional offensive actions,” the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.

Tangail Awami League members attacked Khan Ahmed Shubho, an AL lawmaker of Tangail-7 (Mirzapur), after an upazila unit party conference yesterday afternoon.

A ward councillor assaulted a secondary school headmaster for not allowing him to keep construction materials on Lahini Secondary School grounds in Kushtia municipality yesterday.

Businesses yesterday called for policy assistance, policy continuity and corporate tax cuts in the upcoming budget for fiscal 2022-23 to help them thrive in the post-pandemic world. 

Fighting for his political life, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday accused “three stooges” of colluding with a foreign power to oust him as a debate on a no-confidence motion against him in parliament was postponed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said children with special needs or physically challenged people are not the burden of the society.

The opposition MPs yesterday opposed the provision to appoint administrators in local government bodies, saying the provision is unconstitutional.

The prices of loose soybean and palm oil have gone up by Tk 150-200 per maund at Chattogram’s Khatunganj wholesale market overnight for a supply crisis although the importers maintain there is no shortage at their end.

The government is going to undertake a major survey to assess the animals that Bengal tigers prey on in the Sundarbans and also monitor the current situation of the habitat under a new project of the forest department.

Fuel prices would rise further in the international market if the Russia-Ukraine war prolongs, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

With the kind of year Bangladesh have already had, it is only logical to say that the Mominul Haque-led side will back themselves to break further ground by sealing a maiden Test win on South African soil when the two sides meet in the first of two-Test series at Kingsmead in Durban today.

About one in ten mobile financial services users said they have been victims of fraud, found a survey, underscoring the need for boosting the security of the platform to thwart social engineering.

Dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul was stabbed to death by muggers in the capital as he tried to resist them on Sunday, said police.

CNG filling stations will remain closed from 5:00pm to 11:00pm during the month of Ramadan, according to a Petrobangla press release.

A man has been sued over raping a schoolgirl in Feni.

The first trial on US soil of an alleged major figure in the Islamic State (IS) group -- an accused member of the kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” -- will begin in earnest Wednesday near Washington.

Iran has once again denied women entry to a football stadium to watch an international match, leaving hundreds of ticketed fans locked out, Iranian media said.

Two UK Supreme Court judges yesterday resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, as the government in London said it was “no longer tenable” for its judges to serve in the former colony.