India’s Border Security Force (BSF) will return home from Bangladesh within the next two days, a spokesperson in Kolkata said.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is an internal affair of India but nobody would be allowed to enter Bangladesh illegally, said Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam, chief of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday.

With Aladdin’s lamp seemingly in hand, Nasir Chowdhury from a small town in Jhenaidah amassed a fortune in a mere decade.

Bangladesh is optimistic regarding the outcomes of the Gambian legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said yesterday.

Until November this year, only 2,073 professionals went overseas with jobs, which is one percent of the total Bangladeshi migrants, says a report of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).

Ahmad Kaikaus, senior secretary to the Power Division, has been appointed principal secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Members of the probe committee of intellectual killing meet President Syed Nazrul Islam.

Explosion of four crude bombs near Madhur Canteen yesterday left police and Dhaka University authorities puzzled.

No amount of fines has been able to stop businesses from cutting hills in Chattogram’s Mirsarai and Sitakunda upazilas, putting the environment at risk.

Public sufferings caused by the ongoing bone-chilling cold have been intensified as mercury continued to drop in the northern region of the country.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has welcomed the United Nations for adopting a resolution strongly condemning atrocities against the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Fanuel Mapfumo has been unable to lift heavy objects since a Zimbabwe police officer fractured his left arm as he was covering a story last August.

Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 200 people for violating “public decency” -- including by wearing immodest clothing -- and “harassment”, police said, in the first such crackdown since the ultra-conservative kingdom began easing social norms.

The Liberian government on Saturday said it would not allow an anti-government protest in the capital Monrovia before the end of January, as opposition groups insisted it would go ahead.

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday outside Morocco’s parliament demanding the release of a journalist detained for criticising a judge in a tweet.

A Turkish military plane yesterday arrived in Mogadishu to evacuate those gravely wounded in a devastating bombing that killed 79 people and overwhelmed local health services, in the latest attack on a city dogged by insecurity.

The United Arab Emirates on Saturday denied reports that a popular mobile application developed in the country was used for government spying.

Kazakhstan observed a national day of mourning yesterday a day after 12 people died when an airliner crashed shortly after takeoff and slammed into a house.

Cyprus has stepped up its campaign against the UN-recognised Libyan government’s increasingly close military ties with Turkey, hosting talks on Saturday with a leading figure in the rival Libyan administration.

A suspected drug delaer was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab members in the city’s Badda area early yesterday.