Allowing politically-linked rich people in Bangladesh to embezzle depositors’ money is highly unethical and immoral, said a noted economist yesterday.

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal yesterday said a consensus among political parties was needed for holding free and fair elections.

The world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov AN-225, has been destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, generating alarm and sadness among the aviation world in which it occupies almost cult status.

Police yesterday arrested a Jubo League leader on charge of gang-raping a housewife in Laxmipur.

Bangladesh will look to consolidate their position on top of the ICC ODI Super League and ensure a whitewash against visitors Afghanistan when the two sides meet in the third match of the three-match ODI series at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today.

A transnational currency forgery gang joined hands with drug traffickers, and together they smuggle Phensedyl from India using fake Indian rupees printed in Pakistan.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday framed charges against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and six others in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for anti-government activities and spreading rumours.

On February 21, 1952, I went to my office by the Medical College Road from Azad’s office shortly before the shooting. Hours after the shooting, the home secretary told me that they were sending an official press note to be printed in Sangbad.

Nearly 200 nations approved a major UN climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming yesterday, at the end of a sometimes fraught two-week meeting overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The High Court yesterday decided to take opinions from some jurists and researchers on the rules of a customary law that deprives Hindu women of inheriting their deceased fathers’ properties.

Nearly 71 percent of the country’s population aged over 12 have now got at least one dose of a Covid vaccine with around 1.12 crore people receiving their first jab on Saturday.

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim AA Khan QC has laid emphasis on a collective responsibility which can actually help them move beyond talking about justice to delivering it for the Rohingyas.

A Chattogram court awarded a man with life term for throwing acid on a youth in 2017.

An eight-year-old girl in the capital’s Kafrul area was sexually abused allegedly by a 65-year-old man yesterday.

A Jamalpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a minor girl in the district’s Melandah upazila early yesterday.

A commercial ship of Bangladesh and its 29 crews remained stranded at the outer anchorage of a Ukrainian port because of Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Police recovered the hanging body of a youth from a residential hotel in Patuakhali town early yesterday.

Around 2600 workers engaged in loading and unloading goods are at a considerable risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus at Burimari Land Port in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat as they are to work along with foreign workers amidst the latest Covid-19 spike.

Rab has arrested six perpetrators of the recent gang rape of a female student of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University of Science and Technology (BSMRSTU).

Admission seekers are worried about their preparations for the coming public university entrance exams as most of the universities are yet to decide whether the exam syllabus would be shortened or not.