More than 50 people including opposition leader Alexei Navalny were detained yesterday as police sought to break up a peaceful Moscow rally against the alleged impunity of law enforcement agencies.

The prime accused in Amit Muhuri murder case, Ripon Nath, yesterday confessed before a court that he used a brick to thrash Amit’s head inside the Chattogram Central Jail.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has requested consul generals to engage foreign governments and civil societies to help create a safe environment for Rohingyas in Myanmar and oversee the process of repatriating Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh.

Three people died in fresh political violence between members of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party and a local rival in restive West Bengal state, authorities said yesterday.

A Gaibandha court yesterday awarded Col (retd) Abdul Kader Khan, former lawmaker of Gaibandha-1 and the prime accused in Manzurul Islam Liton murder case, with life term imprisonment for possessing a firearm and an additional 15 years for possessing ammunitions.

It’s a cancer hospital and research centre, but it treats far more general patients than those with cancer. Its 45 beds are almost always empty while all its modern machines remain mostly unused.

The European Union wants Bangladesh to address the issues relating to inclusiveness of the political process, space for the civil society and freedom of the press, says a statement from the EU.

It was not all doom and gloom for the country’s sports fraternity even though the highly anticipated Bangladesh-Sri Lanka ICC World Cup match in Bristol was washed out due to rain. This is thanks to the national football team, who achieved something significant in the evening at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.

In a major reshuffle in the field-level administration, the government yesterday transferred 19 officials as deputy commissioners and district magistrates to as many districts.

Ukraine yesterday accused Russia of acting like an imperial power as it urged a tribunal in The Hague to take on its case over the seas around Crimea.

Air strikes and rocket fire by Syria’s regime and its ally Russia on Monday killed 25 civilians, including seven children, in a northwestern region beyond government control, a monitor said yesterday.

Police in the last two days arrested nine people over raping five girls, including a minor and a mentally challenged girl, in separate incidents in four districts.

Moldova’s President Igor Dodon yesterday annulled a decree to dissolve parliament, enforcing a standoff between two governments which insist on their claim to lead the eastern European country.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is “perfectly fine” and he will place his maiden budget in parliament tomorrow as scheduled, the finance ministry said in a press release last night.

The UN Security Council on Monday expressed full support for the UN envoy for Yemen after he came under sharp criticism from Yemen’s president.

BNP MP Harunur Rashid yesterday in parliament demanded the resignation of State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah for the confusion over the Eid-ul Fitr date.

A rainforest area the size of Spain will have been destroyed by firms growing consumer staples like palm oil in the decade to 2020 -- industry’s self-imposed deadline to end deforestation, Greenpeace said yesterday.

The Directorate of Environment has recommended that its Chattogram office issue the environmental go-ahead for breaking a ship that ran aground at Parki beach in Anwara upazila two years ago.

A group of local people in Barguna’s Taltali upazila have recently trapped and killed an endangered species of Indian wolf which, experts believe, had not been seen in the country since 1940s.

An alleged drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cumilla Sadar South upazila early yesterday.