At least 44 students were injured after the ceiling of a madrasa and orphanage building collapsed on them at Matlab Uttar upazila on Saturday night.

At least three people have been trampled to death by wild elephants in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram yesterday morning.

Record numbers of people yesterday voted in Hong Kong district council elections that the city’s pro-democracy movement hopes will pile pressure on the Beijing-backed government to heed their demands after months of violent protest.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday arrested 32 people on charge of trespassing into Bangladesh from India yesterday.

The BNP will not seek any permission from the government to hold rallies in Dhaka as the government is “not elected by the people’s vote”, said the party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday.

Dhaka has asked Naypyidaw to stop concocting campaigns against Bangladesh and focus on creating an environment in Rakhine conducive to sustained repatriation and reintegration of the Rohingyas.

Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming yesterday said China, utilising its traditional friendship with Bangladesh and Myanmar, will do whatever it can to help alleviate the Rohingya crisis and push forward their “early” repatriation.

The US State Department on Saturday called on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to suspend the accounts of Iranian government leaders until Tehran re-establishes internet coverage throughout the riot-torn country.

Iran will severely punish “mercenaries” arrested over a wave of street violence that erupted after a sharp hike in fuel prices, a Revolutionary Guards commander warned yesterday.

Pressure mounted Friday on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to end a strike that has effectively shut down Canada’s largest rail network, dragging on an already slowing economy.

Two men trying to cross the Arctic Ocean on skis have run into difficulty as unusually thin ice has lengthened their journey and cut into their rations, their team said yesterday.

At least 29 people were killed in Kenya when their homes were swept away in landslides during ferocious overnight rainstorms, the government said yesterday.

A joint team of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Army yesterday recovered 13 rocket-propelled grenades, along with some other explosives, from Satchhari forest in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has revealed for the first time that he will remain neutral in the second Brexit referendum that he has vowed to hold if he becomes prime minister next month.

By keeping the university closed for an indefinite period, the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University and the government are making the students’ future uncertain, Anu Muhammad, professor of JU economics department, said yesterday.

An irate Donald Trump said Friday he welcomes the prospect of an impeachment trial, as the US leader lashed out at “crazy” and “corrupt” opponents probing potential abuse of presidential power.

Saudi Arabia sent back another 125 Bangladeshi workers home on Friday night as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrant workers.

With one police jeep in front and another behind, three buses carried 96 arms makers and dealers along with robbers to Kalarmarchhara Union Parishad ground in Maheshkhali so that they surrender before Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

A primary school teacher was beaten to death by his neighbours over land dispute in Atghoria upazila of Pabna yesterday morning, said family members of the victim.

Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for a political solution to the Rohingya crisis so that the Rohingyas could return to Rakhine State “freely and safely”.