Hundreds of doctors in public hospitals across Zimbabwe went on strike yesterday demanding their salaries be pegged to the US dollar in the face of spiralling living costs.

A Russian court yesterday sentenced a blogger to five years in a penal colony for a tweet calling for attacks on the children of police, a ruling his lawyer said was unprecedented.

An eight-year-old boy, whose body was recovered from Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila on August 25, was gang raped by four young men before he was murdered, police said yesterday.

A Barguna court yesterday sent six accused of Rifat murder case to a juvenile correction centre in Jashore.

Cancer has become the leading cause of death in rich nations, overtaking heart disease, according to the results of two landmark, decade-long global surveys of health trends released yesterday.

An unidentified man hacked an on duty police constable in front of the traffic police office in the city’s Bhatapara area yesterday afternoon.

A Dhaka court yesterday again sent former caretaker government adviser barrister Mainul Hosein to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed for defaming journalist Masuda Bhatti in October last year.

The government is going to set up another 21 weighbridges on major highways to check overloading as the practice is causing damage to roads and bridges.

Doctors have cut another three inches off the amputated leg of Krishna Roy Chowdhury as it became infected. The BIWTC official lost her left leg in an accident in the city’s Banglamotor area a week ago.

Durga Puja is barely a month away, but the festive mood has been punctured by the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the Bengali-dominated village of Khairabari in lower Assam’s Barpeta district.

Indian Border Security Force yesterday opened fire on a group of Bangladeshis leaving at least five wounded at Char Khanpur frontier in Rajshahi.

The BNP yesterday called upon its leaders and activists to be active on the streets with a sacrificing mentality to restore democracy and free party chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

The national taskforce, working to implement the roadmap for Bangladesh’s graduation from a Least Developed Country status to a developed one, yesterday criticised a planning commission impact assessment report saying it “portrays only the negative side of graduation”.

Kazakhstan’s president yesterday called for an easing of restrictions on peaceful demonstrations, three months after thousands were detained at opposition protests in the authoritarian country.

The government yesterday made Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Abul Kalam officer on special duty and attached him to the textiles and jute ministry, according to a circular of the public administration ministry.

An Afghan asylum-seeker who killed a man and stabbed several others in the French city of Lyon sparked a row about immigration on Sunday as new details emerged about his rampage.

An alleged drug peddler and a suspected auto-rickshaw thief were killed in so-called gunfights with Rapid Action Battalion and detectives in Sylhet and Mymensingh yesterday.

Japan will launch a special police unit equipped with submachine guns and helicopters to patrol disputed isles in the East China Sea -- a source of tension between Tokyo and Beijing, according to police and media.

Four Australians were deported from Indonesia’s Papua region yesterday, the immigration department said, after they allegedly took part in demonstrations demanding independence for the restive province.

Berlin zoo said yesterday its resident panda Meng Meng had delivered twins, as it voiced delight at the first such births in the country.