Border Guard Bangladesh detained 22 people when they were entering Bangladesh illegally from India early yesterday in Nischintapur and Mogdaspur areas of Moheshpur upazila.

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) fear that Myanmar may have a “state policy” to attack the Rohingya population in Rakhine state, said ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Friday.

Spain’s top criminal court is mulling legal action against President Bashar al-Assad’s uncle for laundering hundreds of millions of euros taken from Syrian state coffers, legal documents showed Friday.

Today is the 7th anniversary of Tazreen Fashions tragedy in which at least 113 workers were killed and 172 were injured as fire wrecked the garments factory in November 2012.

Relatives of 58 people slain in the Philippines’ worst political massacre held a tearful vigil Saturday to mark a decade since the killings, voicing anger at the slow pace of justice.

Though his storied career needed no epilogue, Leonard Cohen’s graceful new posthumous album “Thanks for the Dance” offers a satisfying postscript, giving fans one last chance to savor his inimitable poetry.

Twenty-two Rohingya Muslims trying to escape one of Myanmar’s camps by boat were arrested after they were forced ashore by their leaking vessel, local police said yesterday.

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment on corruption charges prompted speculation yesterday that the end of his decade-long tenure as ‘King Bibi’ is nigh.

A three-day conference of academicians and presidents of 70 Asian universities begins in Dhaka today with a focus on showcasing the universities’ best practices and entrepreneurial education.

Gamechanger -- is what best describes the debut of Bangla Bond, a taka-denominated debt instrument, on the London Stock Exchange on November 11 for Bangladesh.

Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine was far worse than the behaviour that led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, the head of the congressional impeachment probe said Thursday as he summed up the case for the US president’s removal.

Cox’s Bazar will be one of the most polluted places in the country when the 17 planned coal-fired power plants start operation in the district, predicts a report by two environmentalist organisations.

A 42-old-man died allegedly after his daughter’s stalker kicked him in the chest in Sharothi Mills area of Jashore yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the UK had “facilitated” the return of British orphans whose parents had died in Syria “because it was the right thing to do”.

A group of unidentified miscreants torched a house of indigenous Chakma community in Bandarban Sadar upazila on Thursday night.

After two-and-a-half months of inception, the special taskforce, formed to restrain accidents and bring discipline on the roads, is expected to hold its first meeting tomorrow.

Bangladesh’s resolution entitled “Natural Plant Fibres and Sustainable Development” has been adopted by consensus in the plenary of the second committee of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

Israel’s attorney general indicted Benjamin Netanyahu on a range of corruption charges yesterday, the justice ministry announced, potentially spelling an end to the prime minister’s decades-long political career.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a brief one-on-one meeting at the Taj Bengal hotel in Kolkata this evening on the sidelines of the India-Bangladesh cricket test match.

The UN nuclear watchdog yesterday urged Iran to explain the presence of uranium particles at an undeclared site, as a landmark deal aimed at curbing Tehran’s atomic activities threatens to collapse.