The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested NGO owner Aminul Haque Sarkar in connection with 33 cases filed over misappropriation of about Tk 18.5 crore from Sonali Bank.

From now on, undocumented expatriate workers in Malaysia will be able to seek justice for any sort of exploitation by their employers or agents.

The High Court yesterday rejected BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case, in which she has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

With floodwater receding, different types of waterborne and skin diseases are spreading among the affected people, but in many areas victims have not received any government medical aid yet or could not see doctors due to lack of money.

Three workers died and three others injured after inhaling toxic gas at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to resume direct flights from Dhaka to Tokyo from December this year. Biman suspended its Dhaka-Tokyo route in 2006, deeming it not commercially viable. Now, given the increased business ties and tourist movement between the two countries, Biman

Six people died while cleaning a septic tank in Joypurhat’s Akkelpur upazila yesterday. The victims first lost consciousness inside the septic tank and later died, said Kiran Kumar Roy, officer-in-charge of Akkelpur Police Station.

At least 15 Ethiopian migrants died after their boat broke down and left them stranded in the Gulf of Aden for a week without food or water, a UN agency said.

A journalist was found dead Tuesday in the trunk of an abandoned car in Mexico, authorities said, as a media watchdog vowed to investigate whether his “murder” was connected to his work.

Italy will allow 116 rescued migrants on its Gregoretti coastguard ship to disembark “within hours”, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said yesterday, after EU countries agreed to share responsibility for looking after them.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied any racist “strategy” behind a string of verbal attacks on African-Americans, but found himself being accused of hate by a heckler at a high-profile speech.

The commander of a British warship accompanying UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran said yesterday that Tehran appeared to be testing the Royal Navy’s resolve.

The authorities have already taken adequate measures to ensure smooth operations of factories in Savar Tannery Industrial Estate during Eid-ul-Azha, said Abdul Halim, secretary for Ministry of Industries.

A roadside bomb in Afghanistan yesterday killed at least 35 people travelling on a bus, including children, and injured 27, officials said.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB members in Teknaf upazila early yesterday. The dead is Mohammad Ibrahim, 22, of Teknaf.

Prosecution witness Sirajul Islam, who was the officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station on July 1, 2016, gave a vivid description of the Holey Artisan cafe attack in the capital’s Gulshan before a Dhaka court yesterday.

The Chattogram Custom House found evidence of corruption against six of its officials who allegedly helped an importer dodge taxes on consignments released from the Chattogram airport earlier this month.

Gigantic forest fires have regularly raged through the vast expanses of Russia’s Siberia, but the magnitude of this year’s blazes has reached an exceptional level with fears of a long-term impact on the environment.

Indonesia has returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste to France and Hong Kong, an official said yesterday, marking the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back rubbish to their wealthy places of origin.

Switzerland yesterday said it was suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees after an ethics report revealed alleged mismanagement and abuse of authority at the agency’s highest levels.