Russia will take back the nuclear wastes of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant and dispose those in their country, a top government official said after the cabinet meeting yesterday.

Two people were killed and several others including two law enforcers were injured during violence in union parishad election in Bandarban yesterday.

International relations analysts want the revival of Saarc to establish South Asia as a strong regional platform that can help address challenges, including conflict, terrorism, poverty, joblessness, and climate change.

The Anti-Corruption Commission chairman should resign if he fails to discharge his responsibilities, said lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.

The High Court yesterday stayed until October 25 a lower court order that issued an arrest warrant for Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus in three cases, filed over sacking of three employees of Grameen Communications.

A gunman opened fire Saturday in a small town church in New Hampshire, wounding one person before being taken into custody, police said.

UN forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sent three aircraft to help search for a DRC government cargo plane with eight people on board missing since Thursday.

The gloves have come off as Justin Trudeau struggles to hold onto his parliamentary majority heading into the last week of a tight campaign before Canada’s October 21 general election.

Scotland’s police on Saturday released a man after he was mistaken for a French fugitive wanted for killing his wife and four children eight years ago.

The stock market regulator yesterday put a pause on LR Global Bangladesh’s investment of Tk 50 crore in local online newspaper bdnews24.com and instructed the asset management firm to hand in all documents within 24 hours to verify if the transaction is compliant with securities rules.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a six-year-old girl in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila who went missing three days ago.

Poles yesterday began voting in a polarising election the governing populists look set to win after a flurry of welfare give-aways and attacks on LGBT rights and western values but their majority could be at risk.

Two workers lost consciousness and died inside a tugboat while dismantling it at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda of Chattogram on Saturday night.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order restraining two drug administration officers from working due to their negligence in dealing with a case regarding toxic paracetamol syrups and suspensions.

A battle between the Chattogram customs and fish feed importers over the jurisdiction of the port authority to check hazardous substances in imported consignments has laid bare loopholes in the import policy.

A Habiganj court yesterday sent a bus conductor to jail on charges of attempting to rape a third-grader girl in a running bus in the district’s Madhabpur upazila.

A Jubo League leader and an alleged robber were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Rab in Chattogram and Moulvibazar yesterday.

Turkey’s deadly assault on Kurdish positions in northeastern Syria has forced 130,000 people to flee their homes, the UN said yesterday, adding it was preparing for that figure to more than triple.

Senior Secretary to Bridges Division Khandker Anwarul Islam was made the cabinet secretary yesterday.

At least 26 people were killed by powerful Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported yesterday, a day after the ferocious storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic flooding.