The Federal Court of Canada in a judgement said Bangladesh’s application for information about the status of Bangabandhu’s killer Nur Chowdhury is valid and the disclosure of such information would not hamper the public interest.

A Barguna court yesterday accepted charge sheet against 24 accused in Rifat Sharif murder case.

Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of a ramped-up effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre.

Spain will hold a repeat general election in November -- its fourth in four years -- after acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez failed to secure the support he needs from other parties.

The husband of a gang-rape victim was attacked in Patuakhali on Tuesday night for what he said was refusing to withdraw a case filed over the rape. The 36-year-old man suffered serious injuries to his legs and one hand, and he was being treated at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College

Two suspected criminals were killed in “gunfights” with Rab in Gazipur and Narayanganj early yesterday. The dead in Gazipur is Masud Parvez, 33. His family alleged that one of his friends handed him over to some unidentified men on Monday.

Bangladesh will seek a stronger role of the global community for speedy repatriation of Rohingyas at the UN General Assembly in New York next week. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is leaving for New York to attend the 74th session of the event tomorrow, will put forward some

A faction of teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University has demanded resignation of Prof Farzana Islam, vice-chancellor of the university, for her role in corruption.

The authorities will start running random drug tests on motor vehicle drivers at different points across Dhaka city on December 1, aiming to curb road accidents, a transport leader said yesterday.

Delowar Sharif flew to Dhaka from Saudi Arabia on Sunday, but this was different from his earlier journeys home in his 11-odd years of life as a migrant worker. He had just been deported with a five-year ban on his re-entering the Middle Eastern country.

Two syndicates providing forged national identity cards to Rohingyas are mainly run by two families, and their members hold different posts at the Election Commission offices in Dhaka, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar, said ACC investigators.

The cost of school uniforms weighs heavily on many a parent’s budget, and in Japan authorities have got involved, raiding one of the country’s biggest department stores on suspicion of price collusion.

As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.

UN investigators yesterday called for an expert evaluation of whether Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi can be legally implicated in the abuses committed against the country’s Rohingya minority.

Britain’s Supreme Court began considering legal challenges to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to suspend parliament for over a month, as the country’s political crisis over Brexit intensifies.

Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day.

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts yesterday -- one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul -- with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections.

The young journalist who was suspended from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) started receiving death threats.

Bangladesh will be looking for much more than just a win when they step out to take on Zimbabwe in the opener of the Chattogram leg of the ongoing tri-nation T20I series -- involving Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan -- at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium today.

Parbatya Bangalee Chhatra Parishad, a platform of Bangalee settlers in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), filed another case against the Bandarban correspondent of The Daily Star for using the word “indigenous” in a report.