Three men were killed in what Rab said was a gunfight with their members in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

The results of Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations are likely to be published under four-point grading scale from 2020, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday.

Hired by yaba smugglers, some Rohingyas in the guise of fishermen are bringing in the crazy pills and charging Tk 1 for each tablet.

The European Union yesterday agreed a three-month flexible delay to Britain’s departure from the bloc as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushes for an election after opponents forced him to request an extension he had vowed never to ask for.

Confusion has arisen over the health of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as the hospital authorities claim she is stable while her party and relatives say her life is at stake as her health deteriorated.

A 67-year-old woman has given birth in China, a hospital said yesterday, with the parents claiming they are the country’s oldest couple to conceive a baby naturally.

Prof Ajoy Roy, father of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, yesterday told a court that he would not keep appearing for hearings of his son’s murder case.

The video starts with one Hasan beating an elderly man -- whose hands and legs are tied and who is visibily unconscious -- with a wooden stick. Shouts can be heard off camera, which then pans to the victim’s around 12-year-old daughter, who tries to come to her father’s aid. “Younger women than you have been raped,” Hasan says to her. At this, she backs away.

Controversial former lawmaker Joynal Abedin Hazari was made advisory council member of the ruling Awami League yesterday.

A mobile court yesterday fined an IT company Tk 10.5 lakh for illegal activities relating to training and recruiting Bangladeshi jobseekers for Japan.

Dhaka University teachers yesterday evening had heated arguments at the academic council meeting held over the “illegal enrolment” of 35 Chhatra League leaders.

Cambodia deployed soldiers, police and divers to scour an island popular with backpackers after a British tourist went missing there four days ago, an official told AFP yesterday.

The High Court has fixed November 3 to deliver its verdict on the rule issued over the formation of a commission to look into the irregularities and corruption took place in the banking sector in the last two decades.

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to a boy aged about 12 in a human trafficking case filed in Cox’s Bazar.

Some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including those of the president, courts, and media came under a massive cyber attack yesterday, officials and media said.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked all banks to freeze the accounts of Aziz Mohammad Bhai for 30 days.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government not to harass or arrest Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus until November 7 in three cases filed in connection with the sacking of three employees of Grameen Communications.

Australia’s most notorious serial killer Ivan Milat, whose murder of seven young backpackers in the 1990s terrified the country, has died in hospital, officials said yesterday.

The leaders of two British opposition parties unveiled a plan Saturday to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson the snap election he wants -- but only if EU leaders delay Brexit until January.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to take necessary steps to set up breast feeding and baby care corners at all public places.