Satyabati Bakti, 95, a blind retired tea-worker of Chandpur tea estate, is ready to take a bullet to protect her farmland.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Awami League leaders and activists to work to retain the confidence and trust of the people and help the government’s strides to build a poverty-free Bangladesh.

Former chief justice Mahmudul Amin Chowdhury passed away in Dhaka yesterday afternoon due to old age complications. He was 85.

Forces loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said Saturday they had seized a Turkish ship to search its cargo, hours after the Turkish parliament approved a security and military cooperation deal with Libya.

Switzerland said Friday it had resumed payments to the UN’s embattled agency for Palestinian refugees after a UN probe cleared the organisation of allegations of mismanaging funds.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Ivory Coast on Friday to celebrate Christmas with French troops, saying Paris would work to give “new force” to the regional fight against Islamist militants.

Near-simultaneous attacks believed to have been carried out with drones targeted three government-run oil and gas facilities in central Syria at dawn yesterday, the oil ministry said.

Two Rohingya men, suspected of being drug peddlers, were killed in a “gunfight” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

While the match between Rangpur Rangers and Chattogram Challengers was a topsy-turvy one with Rangpur gaining momentum at the death and winning the game by six wickets under lights at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram, it was rather a straightforward 80-run victory for Sylhet against Khulna in the day’s first game at the same venue yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday met his council of ministers to discuss security measures as violent protests raged on against a contentious citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim.

A Moulvibazar court yesterday sent seven people to jail in a case filed over gang-raping two women on Friday night in the district’s Kamalganj upazila.

Top US defense officials denied on Friday that the military had for years hidden from the public its lack of progress in the Afghan war.

Police recovered the body of a minor girl from an under construction building in Thakurgaon town yesterday, four days after she had gone missing.

A man was trampled to death by wild elephants in Bandarban’s Naikhyangchhari upazila early yesterday.

Cold wave, along with thick fog, continued yesterday and disrupted normal life, especially in the northern region.

The joint delegation of Myanmar and Asean that recently visited the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to persuade them to return to Myanmar allegedly faced a volley of questions from the refugees as to why Myanmar authorities were not discussing the root causes of the problem.

To help patients get ambulances at low fares, the government is going to waive toll for all private ambulances on roads, ferries, and bridges under the Roads and Highways Department.

Newly appointed Pakistan president Bhutto tells foreign journalists during a dinner party in Rawalpindi that Sheikh Mujib is still imprisoned, soon he would be released and kept under house arrest.

Modelling itself on global trailblazer Amazon, AjkerDeal.com has gone on to become one of the leading business-to-commerce marketplaces in Bangladesh within five years of its founding in 2014.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab at Maheshkhali upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.