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.

The political controversy in India over the WhatsApp snooping row intensified yesterday, with the Congress claiming that the phones of three opposition leaders -- including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra -- were hacked by the government.

A labour court in Dhaka yesterday granted bail to Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus after he had surrendered before it seeking bail in five cases filed over sacking five employees of Grameen Communications.

Government yesterday said plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya living in overcrowded refugee camps to Bhashan Char were “uncertain” after authorities failed to gain support from UN agencies.

Someone in future will surely find out the real conspirators behind the brutal murders of August 15 and November 3 in 1975, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday.

Narayanganj Superintendent of Police Muhammad Harun Or Rashid was transferred to the Police Headquarters yesterday amid allegations of trying to extort a businessmen, and framing him and his driver in two cases.

Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday asked a section of Jahangirnagar University teachers to submit a written allegation against the university’s VC Prof Farzana Islam and said steps would be taken if the allegations are proven.

Sri Lanka’s election commission chief on Sunday backed down from plans to censor a state-owned TV station following criticism that his actions were supporting the main opposition candidate at this month’s presidential polls.

The BNP yesterday sought assistance from the government to bring back its vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is now in a critical condition at the New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

A Khulna court on Saturday sent three teenagers to a juvenile correction centre on charge of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in the city’s Khalishpur area on October 29.

India wants safe, speedy and sustainable return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar in the best interest of regional security and stability.

A speedy, safe and sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh is in the interest of the region, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said when he met Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

A woman was brutally beaten up by her husband and in-laws allegedly for damaging their cabbage field in Shibganj upazila of Bogura on Friday.

A 10-year old boy was killed and five others were injured when a three-storey building collapsed in Narayanganj city’s Baburail area yesterday afternoon.

A film festival in suburban Tokyo will show a documentary on the highly controversial issue of Japan’s wartime military brothels, organisers said yesterday after coming under fire for dropping the movie.

Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) was closed for an indefinite period yesterday after students of two dormitories clashed over a football match on Friday, which left six injured.

A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020.

It is hard to find a birthday party without a few floating balloons.