A Minister refrigerators’ warehouse in Gazipur’s Dhirasram area that caught fire yesterday did not have sufficient fire safety measures, said fire service officials.

The Czech foreign ministry yesterday summoned Russia’s ambassador amid a row over a controversial Soviet-era statue in Prague that city authorities want to replace with a World War II memorial.

A group of Mexican police officers who killed eight people in a supposed shootout has been suspended over allegations they in fact executed them and staged a cover-up, authorities said Thursday.

London police yesterday deployed a sweeping security cordon around Heathrow Airport and made seven arrests to thwart climate activists’ efforts to shut down Europe’s busiest travel hub using toy drones.

Some 1,300 people are still unaccounted for in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, officials said Thursday, down from the 2,500 previously reported.

Kenya yesterday became the third country to start routinely innoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day.

Chhatra League General Secretary Golam Rabbani has written to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, apologising to her for the student body’s all “known and unknown mistakes”.

Fires recorded in the Brazilian Pantanal, a biodiversity sanctuary in the southern Amazon rainforest, have quadrupled in 2019 compared to the same period last year, the country’s space research agency said Thursday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday said he was “cautiously optimistic” about striking a Brexit deal ahead of his first face-to-face talks with EU chiefs next week.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an ad-interim injunction on holding the council of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the pro-BNP student body, scheduled for tomorrow.

The long-awaited discussion between students and administration of Jahangirnagar University was held yesterday. The university authorities accepted the protesting students’ demand of relocating three halls and revising the master plan that was made to develop the university’s infrastructure.

Two police officers got stabbed during an attack by a former Chhatra League leader, who is also an alleged drug dealer, in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj last night, police claimed.

Ruling Awami League MP Saber Hossain Chowdhury and Workers Party MP Rashed Khan Menon yesterday in parliament raised questions over the withdrawal of a private members’ resolution through a second vote.

Some 1,484 children suffered various forms of violence in the last eight months across the country, said Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), a platform campaigning for child rights.

Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory yesterday blocked the capital’s Satrasta intersection for over two hours, protesting the dismissal of some 66 of their colleagues.

A lighter vessel with around 1,100 tonnes of coal sank in the Bay of Bengal yesterday morning. All 12 members of the crew were rescued by a fishing boat, said Ataul Karim, joint secretary of Water Transport Cell, a private organisation that allocates lighter vessels.

A Chinese woman who stirred fears of espionage when she entered President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort carrying multiple mobile phones and a malware-spiked thumb drive was found guilty of trespassing and lying in a Florida court Wednesday.

Italy is attempting to set up an automatic system for distributing migrants rescued in the Mediterranean between European countries, Italian media said yesterday.

Japan’s newly appointed environment minister has said he wants to “scrap” nuclear power plants, warning of the need to avoid a repeat of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Taiwan’s richest man sensationally yesterday quit the opposition party, rebuking his former political allies and strongly hinting that he would run as an independent in an upcoming presidential election.