Tension is growing between the trustee board formed by late Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad and his former wife Bidisha Sidiqque over the custody of their son Eric Ershad.

Ten crore. That is the amount of money which resulted in the unravelling of numerous money-grab schemes at Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH).

Magnificent thermal baths designed to be the jewel of Pompeii but destroyed by a volcanic eruption before they could be completed opened to visitors for the first time on Monday after a painstaking excavation.

A large Bangladesh flag and a pennant emblazoned with the word “Dhaka” hung on the wall of her dorm at Emory University in Atlanta, USA.

Two alleged criminals -- a drug dealer and a robber -- were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Sunamganj early yesterday.

Hong Kong’s deeply unpopular leader yesterday vowed to “listen humbly” to voters after the pro-democracy camp scored a crushing victory in community-level elections that revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence.

The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) yesterday quizzed 14 onion importers to “gather information” on sales and stock of the cooking ingredient.

France yesterday announced new measures to combat violence against women by their partners or ex-partners, seeking to toughen up the law as concern grows over the number of femicide murders in the country.

Police in Egypt have released three news editors detained on Sunday in a swoop on local news outlet Mada Masr, the independent organisation said on its website.

Amid a rise in onion prices, the use of the cooking ingredient has dropped significantly in the restaurants in Dinajpur.

Delhi Police today said they arrested three people, who were allegedly inspired by the global terror outfit ISIS, and averted terror strikes in the national capital and at a village fair in Assam.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them.

The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog yesterday defended a report into an alleged chlorine attack in Syria, despite allegations of a cover-up by a whistleblower.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fired Vice President and arch-critic Leni Robredo from her post as overseer of his deadly drug war yesterday, an aide said, just days after calling her a “scatterbrain” not to be trusted with state secrets.

A Chinese spy who shared information documenting Beijing’s political interference operations abroad should be granted asylum after defecting to Australia, the country’s parliamentary intelligence chief said yesterday.

Calm and confident, Esther Muinjangue, Namibia’s first woman to run for president, says she feels a “wind of change” softly blowing through the southwest African country which goes to the polls on Wednesday.

Romanians yesterday started voting in the second round of presidential elections that are expected to return Klaus Iohannis to office, confirming the pro-European trajectory of the eastern EU member.

The Public Works Department has served termination notices to GK Shamim’s construction firm GKB & Company Pvt Limited in a move to cancel the contracts signed with the company for implementing 15 large government projects.

Brazilian prosecutors have started a new investigation into the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he embezzled public money by hiring “ghost employees,” officials said.

Police arrested a youth on charge of attempting to rape a five-year-old girl in Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday.