A former teacher of Eden Mohila College was found dead with his body tied up by adhesive tape at his office in Banani DOHS yesterday morning.

Five of a family were burnt to death when their house caught fire after a live electric line severed and fell on their tin-roofed house early yesterday at Jangaon village in Pirganj upazila in the district.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday cancelled a visit to France in a furious row over Moscow's role in the Syrian conflict -- - the latest episode in deteriorating relations between Moscow and the West.

Filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has revealed plans for his next film based on the terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, the once popular upscale eatery in the capital's Gulshan area.

Jahid Hasan Rana with two other militants entered the Hussaini Dalan premises at the dead of night. They waited by the pond at the rear of the building for half an hour as the crowd for Tazia procession was yet to be big enough.

Law enforcement agencies yesterday confirmed the identities of five out of the 12 suspected militants, including a “Neo JMB financier”, who were killed in separate raids in Gazipur, Tangail and Ashulia on Saturday.

Japan will soon send a delegation to Bangladesh to see the security situation here following the July 1 terror attack at a Gulshan café that left 17 foreigners, including seven Japanese, killed.

As elsewhere across the country, at the Kalibari Sarbojonin Puja Temple in the centre of Lalmonirhat town, Durga Puja celebrations reached their finale yesterday. To observe the Hindu festivities at this 200-year-old temple is particularly inspiring because just four feet away in the same yard is the Puran Bazar Jam-e Masjid, a local mosque.

Turkey is ready to receive an offer from Russia in a long-running multi-billion dollar tender for an air defence system, Turkish media reported yesterday.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen yesterday called for a resumption of talks with China and pledged that "anything" can be on the table for discussion.

Kenya is violating international law by forcing residents of the world's largest refugee camp to return to Somalia, an aid agency said yesterday.

Three Muslim men went on trial in Myanmar yesterday for illegally importing nearly 100 cows that have spent the last month under police protection, in a case Islamic leaders say targets their religion.

Britain has a "moral duty" to take in hundreds of migrant children from the "Jungle" camp in Calais desperate to cross the Channel, France said yesterday, with apparently just days to go until the site is dismantled.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Turkey yesterday for talks with counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pushing forward ambitious joint energy projects as the two sides try to overcome a crisis in ties.

Donald Trump threatened to jail rival Hillary Clinton and accused her husband of abusing women in a vicious presidential debate that appeared unlikely to improve his ratings after a damaging weekend, polls showed yesterday.

Israeli authorities have arrested dozens of Palestinians after a shooting rampage in Jerusalem killed two people and wounded five others, police said yesterday.

Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa) in Rajshahi city yesterday took responsibility for the woman and her newborn baby boy who were left to begin an uncertain life at Rajshahi University (RU) Railway Station.

Tulip Rizwana Siddiq has been inducted into the shadow cabinet of UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A construction worker was killed and seven others were injured as the roof of the corridor of an under construction building collapsed at Gokul in Bogra Sadar upazila yesterday.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim was trapped inside an elevator in his office at the secretariat yesterday.