Three alleged criminals, including two drug peddlers, were killed in “gunfights” with Rab in the capital and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Three people were killed and at least 15 others injured in a shooting at a major food festival in California on Sunday, police said.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has stepped back from his budget decision to increase the source tax on all national savings instruments to 10 percent, considering that the hike would add more burden on the fixed income groups.

The Myanmar government will consider Rohingyas as foreign nationals, said Myanmar Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Myint Thu to reporters after a meeting with hindu Rohingyas at the Kutupalong D-4 camp in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia yesterday.

With the intervention of humans, be it poaching or destruction of habitat, Bengal Tigers are now facing a new threat in the form of a dwindling male population.

Around 6.77 lakh hectares of croplands have been damaged by the recent flood that affected about 61 lakh people in 28 districts, says the government statistics.

An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the eastern Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome yesterday refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU.

Fifty-five pieces of rhino horn were found encased in plaster at an airport in the Vietnamese capital, authorities said yesterday, as the country tries to crack down on sophisticated wildlife smuggling routes.

Russian police arrested almost 1,400 people as they gathered in Moscow at the weekend to demand open elections, a monitor said, the biggest crackdown on a rally in the country in years.

The death toll in a landslide which buried a village in southwest China rose to 36, state broadcaster CCTV said yesterday, with 15 still missing days after the disaster struck.

A man was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila around 5:00pm yesterday.

The High Court yesterday observed that Barguna’s Rifat Sharif would not have been murdered had the police been alert.

An injured sixth grader died in an ambulance on a ferry after the vessel waited three hours at the Kathalbari Ferry Terminal Thursday night for a government high official.

The Royal Canadian Air Force has joined the hunt for two fugitive teens suspected of triple murder, officials said Saturday, backing up a vast search operation unfolding in Manitoba’s remote northeast.

Instilling fear that they would rot in hell if they didn’t do what he asked them to do, a madrasa principal raped and attempted to rape 11 students over three years at Fatullah in Narayanganj, Rab said yesterday.

Agitating dwellers of Kaharol upazila in Dinajpur yesterday blocked Panchagarh-Rangpur highway for an hour after a teenage boy was allegedly kidnapped from his school area.

The trial over the death of two college students in a road accident involving two Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan buses last year is now at the final stage.

Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets yesterday evening to disperse pro-democracy protesters close to Beijing’s office in Hong Kong, plunging the financial hub deeper into crisis.

The flood situation in Assam remained grim with the toll touching 82 yesterday, following the death of one more person in Barpeta district.

The Rohingyas should be treated as Myanmar nationals or be given a chance to form their own state, said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.