A Rohingya organisation based in Cox’s Bazar camps yesterday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saying they don’t want to stay in Bangladesh for long and demanded that the international community put pressure on Myanmar to make Rakhine safe for them.

The six Conservatives vying to become Britain’s prime minister faced off in the second round of voting yesterday, with the final pair to be decided by the end of the week.

Japan yesterday announced a series of measures to prevent car accidents caused by elderly drivers, including emergency brakes and vehicle-free zones around schools, following a string of crashes involving children.

The international community has lost focus and is not putting enough pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas, the refugees said in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

The Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB) today announced that they discovered the country’s first magnetic mine or iron ore at Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila.

President Donald Trump will get a big crowd of his most loyal supporters as official 2020 reelection campaign kickoff in Florida but dismal early poll numbers show the larger-than-life Republican businessman is vulnerable.

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have overrun a military base and looted a nearby town in northeast Nigeria, security sources and residents said yesterday, the latest such attack in the restive region.

The death toll from an Indonesian ferry sinking has risen to 18, authorities said yesterday, the latest maritime accident to hit the archipelago nation.

Three constables of Benapole immigration police were withdrawn yesterday for illegally entering India.

The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said.

When the Kesharwanis decided to branch out and expand their family home, they came up with a novel way of dealing with an ancient giant fig tree in their garden -- they built the house around it.

Some stray incidents of violence, irregularities, and low turnout marked the fifth and final phase of the upazila polls across the country yesterday.

The United Nations experienced “systemic failures” in its handling of the situation in Myanmar leading up to the 2017 mass exodus of Rohingya, a UN report said on Monday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday reiterated that the process of taking action against Deputy Inspector General of Police Mizanur Rahman was underway.

The High Court yesterday observed that the country’s people had no health security as dishonest businessmen mix harmful chemicals in fruits and vegetables.

Thirteen percent of the deaths of females aged between 15 and 49 occur due to maternal causes, including haemorrhage and abortion-related complications, says a government survey released recently.

Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist who was ousted after one year of divisive rule, died after falling ill during a court hearing yesterday, the attorney general said. He was 67.

Former first lady Sandra Torres was in the lead after partial results early yesterday from Guatemala’s presidential election, following a tumultuous campaign that saw two leading candidates barred and the top electoral crimes prosecutor flee the corruption-weary country.

Israel will attend an upcoming conference on the economic aspects of Washington’s peace plan aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said.

China yesterday rejected US criticism of the UN counterterrorism chief’s visit to the restive region of Xinjiang as “absurd” after Washington warned it could serve to legitimise Beijing’s crackdown on Muslim minorities.