A man died in police custody three hours after his arrest yesterday afternoon in Nasirnagar upazila.

Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah yesterday said one of two drones that came down over its Beirut stronghold was rigged with explosives and caused damage to its media centre.

Two months after taking oath, BNP lawmaker Rumeen Farhana sought allotment of a 10 katha plot in Dhaka’s Purbachal from the government she terms “illegal”.

A young girl riding on a motorcycle with her father in New Delhi has died after a glass-coated kite string slit her throat, reports said yesterday, the second incident in a week.

At least 10 people, including children, were injured as miscreants attacked a Hindu family in Patuakhali yesterday afternoon.

A Muslim man left in a coma after being interrogated at a notorious Thai detention centre died yesterday, as pressure mounts on the army to release further findings of a probe into the case.

Iran has test fired a new missile, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, said on Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by members of Border Security Force (BSF) of India in Uttar Dimai border area of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila early yesterday.

A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in Jashore’s Chowgachha upazila yesterday.

A mob beat a vegetable hawker dead in Chuadanga, minutes after he stabbed a villager to death and injured two others yesterday morning, police said.

Yemen’s southern separatists declared a ceasefire in their clashes with government forces in the oil-producing province of Shabwa after two days of fighting.

Welsh fishmonger Lenny Walters has a warning for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he celebrates his one-month anniversary in office yesterday.

President Donald Trump is challenging a federal appeals court decision that ruled he violated the US Constitution by blocking people whose views he disliked from his Twitter account.

Norway’s Conservative Party Prime Minister Erna Solberg has set a Monday deadline for the three junior partners in her coalition to decide whether they should remain in her government.

Her family wanted to marry her off to a 15-year-old boy on Friday night.

President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized the deployment of Brazil’s armed forces to help combat fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, as a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal.

The number of dengue patients reported at hospitals has been decreasing over last three weeks, said hospital sources and health professionals.

Eight people were killed and 18 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch smashing through the railing of a bridge in Faridpur sadar upazila yesterday.

Australia’s prime minister yesterday urged nations in Asia to stand up for their “independence and sovereignty”, with tensions high in the disputed South China Sea where Beijing is under fire for increasingly bullish behaviour.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday seized at least 48 kilogrammes of dried turtles in Dinajpur’s Phulbari upazila.