The son of a hijacking victim and his supporters on Sunday once more demanded North Korea return his father, five decades after Pyongyang diverted a plane carrying 50 South Koreans on board.

A three-month-old Malaysian infant has been diagnosed with polio, the first case reported in the country in nearly three decades, a top health official said yesterday.

He’s supposedly too old, too moderate, too prone to campaign stumbles.

The Saudi military student who carried out a deadly shooting spree at a US naval base showed videos of mass shootings at a dinner party the night before the attack, US media reported Saturday.

Air strikes by unidentified warplanes have killed five pro-Iran fighters in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based war monitor said yesterday.

A man in Lebanon tried to self-immolate during a protest in Beirut on Saturday, the Lebanese Red Cross said, before protesters extinguished the flames.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly raping his 13-year-old step-daughter in the capital’s Jatrabari area.

Thousands of workers of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt yesterday vowed to launch an indefinite hunger strike from tomorrow demanding due salaries of two weeks and implementation of the wage commission.

Three of a family were killed in Barishal’s Banaripara upazila early yesterday.

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde yesterday condemned the practice of extrajudicial killings, saying that justice loses its very character when it takes the form of revenge.

Locals on a char of the Padma in Pabna’s Sagarkand claim that they own the land the government allocated for a solar power plant and are demanding compensation for their loss of land and livelihood.

Chief of Army Staff Gen Aziz Ahmed will leave for Myanmar today on a four-day official visit.

Two factions of Dhaka University’s Salimullah Muslim hall union yesterday clashed over evicting an outsider from the hall, leaving the outsider injured.

BNP yesterday announced to stage demonstrations across the country today, demanding immediate release of party leader Khaleda Zia from jail.

US President Donald Trump lashed out at the World Bank on Friday, blaming the international financial institution for lending money to China.

Bangladesh will have various engagements with the international community at The Hague as the International Court of Justice is set to start its three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case from Tuesday.

In a programme marred by violence, Awami League named MA Salam and Sheikh Ataur Rahman as the president and general secretary of its Chattogram (north) unit for the next three years.

At least eight people were killed and 16 injured in accidents in three districts during the last two days, our correspondents and a news agency report.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday termed the government’s decision to waive 10 percent VAT on imported coal for coal fired power plant as “imprudent”.

With onion prices still unstable, an initiative to sell the essential at Tk 45 per kg by Police Nari Kalyan Samity (Punak), an association for welfare of the female members of police families, generated strong buzz among port city dwellers.