A Chilean police officer appeared in court Friday in the first instance of prosecutors bringing charges over eye injuries blamed on security forces during Chile’s months of unrest.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sister Selima Islam yesterday said they were planning to make a special appeal seeking Khaleda’s release from jail as they were worried about her life.

Two Bangladeshi migrant workers have been recognised in Singapore for saving the life of an abandoned child.

Police arrested 16 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and recovered 15 crude bombs and gunpowder from their possession in Chapainawabganj town yesterday morning.

A timber trader was hacked to death allegedly by a Jubo League leader in Bogura Sadar upazila yesterday.

Three suspected criminals were killed in separate reported incidents of “gunfights” with law enforcers in three districts early yesterday.

The election manifestos of the two BNP mayor candidates are likely to highlight the introduction of an “effective city government” to build a modern and liveable Dhaka city.

Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called dramatically for the Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office Thursday, saying the US leader cannot be trusted to put the country’s interests ahead of his own.

After a fire devastated Chalantika slum in the capital’s Mirpur around five months ago, middle-aged Hazera Begum was struggling hard to get back on her feet.

Saudi Arabia has deported some 217 Bangladeshi migrant workers in the last two days, according to Brac Migration Programme.

Students seeking admission to the country’s public universities will no longer need to sit for separate tests from the next academic year as a centralised entrance test will allow their entry to the universities.

Bangladesh has moved three notches up but scored the same on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which indicates the government needs to strengthen measures to combat graft.

“Zero death.” These words come up whenever a Bangladeshi national is killed at the border.

Dr Charles Chen Yidan, founder of the Yidan Prize, presented the prestigious award to Brac Founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, which was accepted by his son and daughter in the capital yesterday.

Ducsu Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur yesterday urged the Awami League government to keep a tight rein on Chhatra League’s “desperate activities” in order to avert “collapse of the government”.

A psychologist who helped design the CIA’s “war on terror” torture program after the September 11, 2001 attacks defended the program this week before its victims at the US military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said yesterday that Pakistan continued to give sanctuary to an insurgent group that helps the Taliban in its war against Kabul and the United States, directly contradicting an earlier statement by Pakistan’s prime minister.

China put millions of people on lock down in two cities yesterday at the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected more than 630, as authorities around the world worked to prevent a global pandemic.

North Korea will ban foreign tourists to protect itself against a new SARS-like virus that has claimed at least nine lives in China and sickened hundreds, a major tour operator said.

Militants killed 36 civilians when they attacked villages in northern Burkina Faso, the government said Tuesday, appealing for local volunteers to bolster its fight against jihadists.