A teenage boy died as he came in contact with a fire that broke out at a fruit store along Hazi Road in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila yesterday.

The weekly cabinet meeting yesterday approved the Cabinet Division’s proposal to make “Joy Bangla” -- the slogan that helped unite Bangladeshis to fight against the Pakistani regime -- the national slogan of the country.

The International Court of Justice will begin a fresh round of hearings into the Rohingya genocide case amid renewed hope for justice today, a little over two years after The Gambia filed the case with the court.

Three days after sacking Sharif Uddin, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday came up with 13 allegations against the former officer whose investigation into a land acquisition scam made headlines in 2020 and 2021.

Current geopolitical tensions around Ukraine may affect energy security, leading to diversion of global attention from the climate crisis, said experts and diplomats at a panel of the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

In a show of force, Russia yesterday test fired nuclear-capable missiles as the United States again warned that it believes Moscow plans to invade Ukraine within days or next week.

With 4.57 lakh workers hired from Bangladesh just last year, Saudi Arabia has been the top destination for Bangladeshi migrants for the past five years.

The meeting started at Amtala [February 21, 1952]. There was a question in everyone’s eyes -- what will happen, what will we do now?

All the secondary educational institutions in the country would get a two-day weekend -- Friday and Saturday -- each week from the next year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday said that if Western nations failed to fulfil their promises to support Ukraine’s independence, it would have damaging consequences worldwide, including for Taiwan.

Despite being aware of the threats to life and property, Hazi Wahed Mansion owners still rented out the residential property to set up five warehouses for flammable materials in order to make extra profit.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead yesterday at his shop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The health directorate reported 13 deaths from Covid-19 yesterday, the lowest since January 21.

An 18-year-old girl was killed yesterday after being hit by a train in Kulaura, Moulvibazar.

A sub-inspector of highway police was killed in a hit-and-run near Daudkandi Toll Plaza in Cumilla yesterday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has submitted his response to a police questionnaire relating to Downing Street parties that may have breached coronavirus regulations, his office said Friday.

The Sundarbans has to be protected as it acts like a shield to save the coast and country from cyclone, said speakers at the inaugural session of a conference in Khulna yesterday.

Dr Yousuf Ali, former director of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal, passed away in a Dhaka hospital yesterday.

The government has formulated rules to regularise the sale and consumption of alcohol, a move that narcotics control officials believe will generate revenue and make alcohol easily accessible to individuals with permission to drink.

The Daborkhali Canal in Chattogram’s Ichakhali union is at the risk of dying after Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (Bepza) has filled up around a two-km stretch of the critical water body to set up an economic zone.