The Malaysian immigration department has detained 5,272 Bangladeshi workers, among other nationals, between January 1 and June 4 this year amid the country’s stringent action against undocumented foreign workers.

Veteran Indian playwright, actor and director Girish Karnad died of multiple organ failure in Bengaluru early yesterday. He was 81.

The government is likely to provide MPO benefits to 3,000 educational institutions, about 1,000 more than it had initially planned for the coming fiscal year.

Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari was arrested yesterday after his bail application was rejected in connection with a high-profile money laundering case that saw millions allegedly siphoned out of the country.

Samples of most of the 52 food items, which were previously found to be substandard by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, have passed a retest by the quality regulator, says a counsel for the BSTI.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has denied that two Bangladeshi diplomats -- one from Iran and another from Lebanon -- are being recalled on charges of moral degradation and financial irregularities.

A populist mayor who can command huge crowds and wants closer ties with China has thrown his hat in the ring to stand as a candidate in Taiwan’s upcoming presidential elections.

A great source of pride for communist Cuba is a medical corps that has fanned out across the globe for decades to help people in troubled or poor countries.

Japan’s air force said yesterday “spatial disorientation” likely caused one of its pilots to fly his F-35 stealth fighters into the Pacific Ocean in April, hitting the water at more than 1,100 kph (683 mph).

A suspected drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested a bus driver, accused of killing a passenger by running the vehicle over him following an altercation over bus fare at Bagherbazar area on Sunday.

Up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting intensifies in northwestern Syria as aid funds run dangerously low, the United Nations said yesterday.

Police in the last two days arrested six people, including a teenager, on charges of raping four girls in separate incidents in four districts.

A gun battle between supporters of India’s ruling right-wing party and a regional rival has killed four people in West Bengal, police said yesterday, as violence raged in the tinderbox state.

Rangpur police authorities allowed former Sonagazi officer-in-charge Moazzem Hossain to leave for the capital two days after a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against him on May 27.

People leaving Chattogram or heading towards the city were stuck in long tailbacks for several hours after fishermen blocked Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda upazila yesterday, demanding the lifting of an ongoing ban on fishing at sea.

A US army vehicle was damaged in a mine explosion in western Niger, but there were no fatalities, and the US military was investigating whether the incident was hostile, embassy and local security forces said yesterday.

Iran’s supreme leader pardoned hundreds of prisoners on the occasion of the end of Ramadan, but a Lebanese national who Beirut expected to be released was not among them, authorities said yesterday.

Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, said yesterday he would withhold an already agreed 39-billion-pound ($49.6 billion) Brexit payment until the European Union gives Britain better withdrawal terms.

Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman, who is facing a probe by the Anti-Corruption Commission over allegation of amassing wealth illegally, has alleged that an enquiry officer took Tk 40 lakh as bribe with the false promise of exonerating him of all charges.