In the run-up to the Ducsu polls, the candidates made many lofty promises about solving the accommodation crisis and protecting students’ rights.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged Japan to mount pressure on Myanmar to take 1.1 million Rohingyas back from Bangladesh, UNB reports.

A man was arrested yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a 23-year-old mother of one in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila on Sunday night.

South Sudan’s exiled rebel leader Riek Machar yesterday arrived in Juba for the first time in a year to meet his rival, President Salva Kiir, and try salvage a stalled peace agreement.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry arrived in Khartoum yesterday, officials said, to begin what Cairo hailed as a “new start” in relations as Sudan embarks on a transition to civilian rule.

At least 29 people were killed in two attacks in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, in a region prone to jihadist violence, the government said.

Australia battled to contain around 160 bushfires in the east of the country yesterday, an early start to a wildfire season that authorities warn could be the worst in decades.

At least one person was killed and five others injured in Johannesburg on Sunday, police said, after security forces clashed with looters in the latest outbreak of xenophobic violence.

The Rakhine State is now experiencing another wave of conflict, human rights violations and displacement, making it harder for the Rohingya to return to Myanmar, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said yesterday.

A Satkhira court yesterday sent former civil surgeon of the district Towhidur Rahman to jail in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 16.61 crore when he was in office.

Queen Elizabeth II has given her formal approval to a law that would force the British government to delay Brexit if it is not able to strike a divorce deal with Brussels, the House of Lords said yesterday.

North Korea said yesterday it is willing to hold working-level talks with the United States in late September amid stalled denuclearisation dialogue.

After a weeklong series of drama and tension within the Jatiya Party, it’s senior Co-chairman Raushan Ershad has been made the Leader of the Opposition, while JP Chairman GM Quader was made the Deputy Leader.

The Forest Department has planned to monitor the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site, with drones to check crimes like poaching of tiger and deer.

Three suspected robbers were killed in what police said was a gunfight with a team of detectives in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila early yesterday.

One more person died from dengue yesterday at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

Chattogram’s road communication with nine districts was nearly cut off for about 10 hours due to a strike enforced by a group of transport owners, causing daylong suffering to thousands of people yesterday.

Tumpa (not her real name) grew up in her maternal grandfather’s house in a small village of Bogura’s Dhunat upazila and was a seventh-grade student at a nearby high school.

A fire broke out in the basement of the Election Commission building in the capital around 11:00pm last night.

The centre of Beijing was under lockdown early yesterday for a nighttime parade rehearsal by the Chinese military which is preparing for October 1 ceremonies to mark Communist China’s 70th anniversary.