Rumours run rife on the whereabouts of Dhaka South Jubo League President Ismail Hossain Samrat, one of the alleged kingpins of “casino” business in the capital.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in a strong earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands, triggering landslides that buried at least one of the victims, the disaster agency said.

To dodge the law enforcers, members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) are converting their funds to Bitcoin and planning to use the cryptocurrency in the dark web to buy firearms and narcotics, police claimed.

Nadungamuwa Raja, 65 years old, is a celebrated elephant towering around 10.5 feet (3.2 metres) in height, the tallest tamed tusker in Sri Lanka. And he has his own armed guards.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila yesterday.

The Right to Information Act, which empowers people to hold government officials accountable, did not yield expected results due to poor number of applications, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch,” according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week.

US Democrats’ explosive launch of an official impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump has set off a massive political battle, raising multiple questions about the process and its consequences for the Republican’s tempestuous presidency.

A gunfight between an army patrol team and a group of criminals in Barudolu area of Khagrachhari’s Laxmichhari yesterday afternoon left an army personnel injured, said an ISPR press release.

Jatiya Sangsad whip Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury yesterday filed a case against police Inspector Mahmud Saiful Amin under the Digital Security Act for making derogatory remarks about him on Facebook.

Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned yesterday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth’s frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.

A Noakhali court yesterday sent three men to jail for their alleged involvement in rape of a schoolgirl. The three -- Borhanuddin, 20, Mehedi Hasan, 18, and Siraj, 18, of the district’s Sadar upazila -- were accused of raping a fifth-grader in the upazila’s Newazpur area, said police.

A total of 10 people, including seven children, died as a boat sank in Kaliakuta Haor of Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on Tuesday.

Irregularities and corruption at Dhaka city corporations in buying pesticides, unplanned anti-mosquito drives and a lack of national work plan are the main reasons behind the dengue outbreak, TIB has said.

A White House transcript released yesterday confirmed that President Donald Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart a ‘favor’ to probe political rival Joe Biden -- a day after Democrats seized on the explosive allegation to launch an impeachment process.

Five people were injured yesterday when a roadside bomb exploded as a bus carrying police drove by in the southern Turkish province of Adana, state media reported.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday proposed that the United Nations create an “international peace zone” to replace the peninsula’s divide, saying the idea would both reassure the North and inspire the world.

Part of a massive glacier on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc mountain range is close to collapse after accelerated melting in the late summer heat, officials at a nearby town warned yesterday.

The Housing and Public Works Ministry on Tuesday made an additional chief engineer of the Public Works Department an officer on special duty (OSD) in the wake of the ongoing crackdown on the “casino” business in the capital and a bribery controversy in the department.

Beijing denied yesterday that a huge military parade planned for China’s 70th anniversary was a sign of the country “flexing its muscles”.