North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea early yesterday, the first such test since US President Donald Trump was elected, and his administration indicated that Washington would have a calibrated response to avoid escalating tensions.

Some activists of ruling Awami League yesterday assaulted a doctor of Belkuchi Upazila Health Complex in Sirajganj for “refusing to admit a critically injured patient”.

Police arrested 11 persons through a drive in the capital's Sabujbagh early yesterday on charge of impersonating members of the detective branch (DB) to rob people coming out of banks and money exchange and jewellery shops.

US President Donald Trump said Friday he is considering drafting a new order to ban migrants from majority-Muslim nations after his initial decree fell afoul of the law.

The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) looks to hand over 840 apartments in 10 buildings of its Uttara apartment project to buyers from April.

At home in Japan, 88-year-old Hiroko Kobayashi still teaches ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. With more than 40 years

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League was killed and two others were injured as two factions of the student body clashed in a restaurant at Riazuddin Bazar Amtal in Chittagong city yesterday afternoon.

Akbar Ali Khan, former adviser to a caretaker government, yesterday said none of the search committees in the last 10 years could pick competent people as members of the Election Commission.

The United States on Friday blocked the appointment of former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad to be the new UN envoy to Libya.

Police yesterday arrested two more people in Shahzadpur in connection with the killing of journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul of daily Samakal.

Police yesterday filed a case against 2,000 unnamed people over Friday's clash between a mob and law enforcers at Miyarhat in Daulatkhan upazila of the district.

At least 20 students of the Institute of Health Economics of Dhaka University were injured after a lessee of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park and his men reportedly attacked them following an altercation over entering the park in Gazipur yesterday.

Frustrated, several journalist leaders yesterday demanded actions against the investigators for their failure to identify and arrest the killers of Sagar-Runi in five years.

The Rapid Action Battalion on Friday arrested nine members, including five Myanmar nationals, of a yaba smuggling gang in Cox's Bazar.

Hundreds of farmers from three villages under Mauha union in Gouripur upazila staged a demonstration yesterday demanding restoration of power supply to a deep tube-well used for Boro cultivation in the area.

The new chief election commissioner is even more loyal to the Awami League than his predecessor Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, the BNP has alleged.

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake was horrified and moved by the stories she heard from the Rohingyas who fled Myanmar in the face of persecution.

A man and his son are taking this year's Dakhil (vocational) examinations (equivalent to SSC) together in Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh.

Her parents briefly left the house in the capital's Tejgaon Rail Colony area yesterday morning, leaving her inside and alone when a fire broke out there.

Since her childhood, Monjuara Parvin always had an empathy with the people of her community and determination to help them overcome their sufferings. However, she was yet to discover her writing skills.