Migrant workers who were deported from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks had been staying in the Gulf country illegally, Golam Moshi, Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday declared that the permission given for importing, beaching and scrapping of radiation-contaminated vessel MT Producer was illegal.

Agitating Buet students yesterday said they would not to return to classes until the authorities met their three-point demand, including expulsion of the charge-sheeted accused in Abrar Fahad murder case.

Thousands of folk music aficionados thronged Dhaka’s Army Stadium yesterday, as the fifth edition of the Dhaka International Folk Festival (DIFF) 2019 was inaugurated.

Editors of The Daily Star and the Prothom Alo, along with the owning companies of the national dailies and their printer, were recognised as the top taxpayers in the journalist and media categories for the fourth straight year yesterday.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has permanently “postponed” the production, distribution, sale and export of heartburn drug ranitidine after detecting carcinogenic ingredients in its raw materials.

Three days after the tragic rail accident in Brahmanbaria, a Rangpur-bound passenger train derailed in Ullapara of Sirajganj yesterday noon.

The Croatian government yesterday called a presidential election for December 22, a vote seen as a key test for conservative Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic ahead of parliamentary polls next year.

Bolivia’s interim president Jeanine Anez moved Wednesday to fill the power vacuum left by the resignation of Evo Morales, who said he was ready to return from exile in Mexico to “pacify” the country, as riot police clashed with his supporters and one was killed.

Two top US diplomats delivered gripping testimony Wednesday about Donald Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival Joe Biden, as the impeachment inquiry into the president shifted into a new phase of high-stakes televised hearings.

The UK government has written to EU chief Ursula von der Leyen to say it will not nominate a British member to her top team before its December 12 election.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Tuesday to US President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program which protected nearly 700,000 young immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation.

Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief has gone missing in Spain just days after a court approved a request for his extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges, police said yesterday.

Hate crimes reported to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation fell slightly in 2018 from the previous year, according to an annual report released by the FBI on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed optimism that all the upazilas would come under cent percent electricity coverage by 2021, as the government was working to illuminate all homes across the country.

An alleged member of an inter-district robber gang was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila early yesterday.

A Bangladeshi businessman has alleged that he was kidnapped in West Bengal and had to pay a Rs-50 lakh ransom.

The fifth edition of Dhaka International Folk Fest is scheduled to begin today at Bangladesh Army Stadium in Dhaka.

Transportation costs, the largest direct logistic costs in Bangladesh, would be up to 35 percent lower if there were no congestion on roads, said a World Bank report.

Israeli air strikes killed nine Palestinians in Gaza yesterday, medical officials said, raising the Palestinian death toll to 22 over a two-day escalation in violence since Israel launched strikes to kill an Islamic Jihad commander.