Cox’s Bazar municipality unit Awami League leaders and activists yesterday burnt copies of The Daily Star, protesting a report run by the daily earlier this week under the headline “Bakkhali River in Cox’s Bazar: Grabbed by guardian”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was set to visit London yesterday to repair a post-Brexit alliance with an old friend whose defiance on China and Iran underscores Washington’s diplomatic isolation.

A Tangail court yesterday denied bail to baul singer Shariat Sarkar in a case filed over “hurting religious sentiment”.

President Donald Trump has boasted that his Middle East plan will find support but most experts believe its unabashed backing of Israel and tough conditions for the creation of a Palestinian state mean it is doomed to fail.

Real estate developers have to pay up to Tk 2 crore speed money to get building approval from Rajuk for a housing project, says a TIB report.

As many as 148 Bangladeshi migrants who were stranded in war-torn Libya returned home yesterday, according to International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Bangladesh.

The government needs to ensure accountability of its officials and hold them responsible if they fail to execute the directives of apex court on saving rivers, speakers said at a seminar.

At least 11 people were killed and 14 others were injured in separate road accidents in six districts yesterday.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” while in police custody in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali early yesterday.

Women facing sexual harassment at work often do not lodge complaints due to fear of losing jobs and being stigmatised, speakers told a roundtable.

Dhaka University last night expelled 67 students over their involvement in admission test forgery, drug abuse and possession of illegal arms, said a DU press release.

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten refused to apologise to China yesterday over a satirical cartoon it ran about the deadly new coronavirus that stoked the ire of Beijing.

At least 10 men have been killed in a major jihadist attack on a village in Burkina Faso, which is in the grip of a bloody Islamist insurgency, security and local sources told AFP yesterday.

Turkey warned yesterday it will retaliate “in self-defence” if any of its army posts in northwest Syria are threatened amid increasing attacks by regime forces on the country’s last major opposition bastion.

Catalan separatist Clara Ponsati has not set foot in her native Barcelona for two years for fear of the Spanish authorities. But her circumstances could be about to change thanks to Brexit.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the long-delayed US-Israeli plan yesterday amid repeated rejections by Palestinians.

All of them were school dropouts with an unflinching addiction to drugs.

A rare species of frog native to the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes has been spotted in the South American country for the first time in 18 years, the investigation team that made the discovery told AFP.

The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation the world’s second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade ago when China relied on imports, researchers said in a new report yesterday.

The death toll from days of intense storms and flooding in southeastern Brazil has risen to 44, authorities said Sunday.