Company-based route permit system for buses in Dhaka city is the main cause of extortion, said Bangladesh Road Transport Owners’ Association yesterday, demanding the system be changed.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” between law enforcers and his cohorts in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan formed a large criminal gang to expand his clout after he became the organising secretary of the youth front’s Dhaka south unit in 2012, a Rab probe found.

The government will take “stern action” against the agents involved in irregularities in the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers for companies in Saudi Arabia, with the country deporting thousands, even those with valid work permits.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again issued a strong warning against wrongdoers, saying that law will take its own course against those who commit crime.

Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin yesterday “forced” Hasina Mohiuddin, wife of former CCC mayor late ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, off the stage at a programme.

Rab yesterday pressed charges against SM Golam Kibria Shamim, popularly known as GK Shamim, and his seven bodyguards for brandishing firearms to spread fear and panic among people.

Dread mounted across Vietnam yesterday as relatives of migrants feared to be among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain revealed new heart-wrenching details of their last contact with their loved ones.

Thousands of separatists clashed with police in central Barcelona Saturday just hours after some 350,000 demonstrators held a peaceful march in the latest mass protest over the jailing of nine separatist leaders.

Pakistan on Friday confirmed it detained the father of a prominent activist who has fled the country, in an incident that’s fueled fears of a clampdown on dissent and sparked condemnation from the United States.

A Chinese company’s attempt to lease an entire island in the Solomon Islands was unlawful and will not be allowed to go ahead, the Pacific archipelago’s government said Friday.

Algerians flooded the streets of the capital Friday to demand the overhaul of the political establishment and reject army-backed calls for presidential polls in December.

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party has been at the heart of Britain’s Brexit saga, and its annual conference Saturday will see it try to maintain its prominent role.

Uruguayans will pick a successor to leftist President Tabare Vazquez on Sunday as well as voting on crime-busting constitutional reform to establish a military police force and create full life terms for the most serious offenses.

The United States said Friday that it would refuse entry to Zimbabwe’s security minister as it voiced alarm over the government’s crackdown on protests and the opposition.

The Trump Organization is considering selling the lease rights to the luxury hotel it operates in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has once again questioned the “motive” of some foreign missions in Dhaka, specifically the US embassy, for their activities.

Iraqi security forces sought to clamp down on protests in Baghdad and across the south yesterday, a day after dozens died in a bloody resumption of anti-government rallies.

Arif Hossain, a Bangladeshi national doing his PhD in Japan, has been recognised as the best young scientist of the far-eastern country.

A US judge on Friday validated the legality of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 election.