Mobile carrier Robi yesterday hinted that it may move to an international arbitration body to settle the government’s audit claim worth Tk 867.23 crore if the operator fails to get justice in Bangladesh.

The US wants to make big investments in Bangladesh -- in infrastructure, energy, as well as in strengthening Bangladesh’s institutions to improve governance -- under the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS).

Santals who were evicted from a sugarcane farm in Gaibandha three years ago are yet to get justice for the killing of three men from their community or compensation for the loss of their livelihood.

At least five gendarmes and five civilians were killed in an attack on a base in northern Burkina Faso, near the border with Mali, security sources said.

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has appealed for citizens to unite behind the country’s army, after the latest deadly militant strike killed more than 40 soldiers.

A US appeals court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump must release eight years of tax returns, dealing a blow to his attempts to keep his personal earnings private.

The government is set to take up another project involving Tk 3,449 crore to enhance the security of the country’s first nuclear power plant in Rooppur.

Nine sailors who were waiting in the harbour of the port of Cotonou in Benin have been abducted by suspected pirates, port authorities said Sunday.

US President Donald Trump called Sunday for the unmasking of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint launched the House impeachment investigation, attacking the process against him as a “scam.”

El Salvador ordered Venezuela’s diplomats to leave the country in a challenge to President Nicolas Maduro, prompting his government to respond by expelling Salvadoran envoys in Caracas on Sunday.

Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul said Sunday it was indefinitely closing its consular office in the Afghan capital due to security reasons, amid mounting tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Washington and Beijing traded tit-for-tat barbs over the disputed South China Sea at a regional summit in Bangkok yesterday, with the US accusing the fellow superpower of intimidating claimants in the resource-rich waterway.

An inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday told a Dhaka tribunal that suspended Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain had filmed the statement of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi on his mobile phone.

After the week-long public awareness programme on the new Road Transport Act finishes, police will fine small amounts to first-time violators of traffic rules.

The High Court yesterday directed Chevron Bangladesh to provide the Tk 620 crore due to the employees of the US oil and gas company.

Iran yesterday announced its latest violations of the nuclear deal with world powers, saying that it now operates twice as many advanced centrifuges banned by the 2015 accord and is working on a prototype that’s 50 times faster than those allowed by the deal.

Overall air quality status in Dhaka previously showed that winter was the most polluted season. But according to a study, things are changing in recent years.

Demonstrating students kept Jahangirnagar University Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam confined to her residence since yesterday evening, demanding her resignation over allegations of corruption.

Two Indonesian journalists mediating a land dispute between a palm oil company and residents have been found dead with multiple stab wounds near a plantation in Sumatra, police said.

The visiting executive directors of the World Bank Group yesterday said that they would provide all sorts of support for displaced Rohingyas living in Bangladesh.