The Shampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) has formed its new executive committee with The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam as its president and Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam as general secretary.

Some 175 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Saudi Arabia on Sunday night amid a crackdown on undocumented workers there.

Tropical Storm Humberto lashed the Bahamas with rain and wind on Saturday, possibly slowing down relief efforts in the wake of the devastation wrought less than two weeks ago by Hurricane Dorian.

Members of “Mogh Party” kidnapped six people in Bandarban yesterday, said police.

Fiji’s leader Frank Bainimarama was set to dine with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison last night, just weeks after the pair clashed over climate change at a Pacific summit.

Turkey’s defence ministry said yesterday that the delivery of a second battery of Russian S-400 missile defence systems has been completed as of yesterday, and added that the systems would become active in April 2020.

Several hundred Estonians gathered in the capital Tallinn on Saturday to demand the resignation of the three-party coalition government, which for the first time features a far-right party.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday visited the country’s flood-stricken southeastern regions as the death toll rose to six and train and air services were disrupted for a third day.

Charity rescue vessel Ocean Viking was yesterday preparing to return to rescuing shipwreck survivors off Libya after disembarking 82 migrants in Italy following a reversal of government policy in Rome.

At least 12 people have drowned and dozens of others missing after a sightseeing boat capsized on a swollen river in southern India, police and local media reports said.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of assaulting a police officer in the district’s Indurkani upazila.

Beximco Group yesterday protested a public statement of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) issued on September 13 and remarks of its executive director.

A Rohingya man was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf early yesterday, hours after his arrest.

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting global energy supplies and warned yesterday that US bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in range of its missiles.

Members of the coast guard detained 16 Rohingyas from Habirchhara in Teknaf upazila when they were trying to go to Malaysia on a fishing trawler on Saturday night.

The number of hospitalised dengue patients yesterday was around three times higher outside Dhaka than in Dhaka.

A special laptop for inputting NID information into the Election Commission’s server has been missing from the Chattogram District Election Office since 2015 and investigators believe it was used for making over 2,000 dubious entries.

A probe body of Pabna district administration has found that police officials indeed forced a gang-rape victim to marry one of the rapists.

At least 23 militiamen were killed Saturday in fighting in Central African Republic between rival groups who signed a peace deal in February, said the UN mission in the country MINUSCA.

Police yesterday arrested a man in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl who later became pregnant.