Two suspected robbers died after a mob beat them up at a village in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj upazila early yesterday.

Jumatul Wida, the last Juma prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, is being observed across the country today with due solemnity and religious fervour.

Britain has received 750,000 applications from EU citizens seeking to settle in the UK in the first four months of 2019, with Poles leading the way, official data showed yesterday.

With an unofficial holiday of over a week beginning today, thousands of city dwellers started leaving the capital yesterday for their homes to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his historic second term at a solemn ceremony in front of cheering supporters yesterday ahead of unveiling a revamped Hindu nationalist government.

Police recovered throat-slit bodies of two men in Batapara area of Dinajpur’s Birganj upazila early yesterday.

Migrant rights groups have called for a transparent labour recruitment mechanism as Bangladesh and Malaysian officials discuss the future labour recruitment plan in the Southeast Asian country.

A probe body could not find any proof of irregularities in the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union elections. The committee, formed to investigate allegations of irregularities, submitted its report at a syndicate meeting Wednesday night and said it did not find any evidence of irregularities

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was given lifetime membership of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) during the student platform’s second executive meeting yesterday.

Two alleged muggers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Tongi Bridge area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway of Gazipur early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Rohingya crisis is a lesson for other situations of crises in the region and elsewhere in the world to overcome chaos with the power of peace, humanity and development.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said talks hosted by Norway between his delegation and that of President Nicolas Maduro would continue despite Wednesday’s discussions ending “without agreement.”

May 23, a day India celebrated its democracy turned out to be the darkest day of a retired honorary lieutenant of the Indian Army. Fifty-two-year-old Mohammed Sanaullah from Kolohikas village in Kamrup district of Assam was declared a ‘foreigner’ by the Foreigners’ Tribunal that very day.

Two women were allegedly gang-raped in Habiganj and Narayanganj in the last three days.

Four minor Bangladeshi girls, who were forced into sex work, were rescued from a nightclub in Dubai by police, a court heard on Tuesday.

Local administrations and law enforcers have recovered 78.5 tonnes of relief rice, which were recently smuggled out of government storage facilities in two districts.

There was something special about the morning of May 28. I was immersing myself in the mystic beauty of nature on a visit to Babudaying -- a hillock some ten kilometres from Chapainawabganj town.

Australia’s military has confirmed that Navy pilots were targeted with lasers during flights in the hotly contested South China Sea, with informal Chinese militia vessels believed to be behind the attacks.

A red carpet was rolled out to welcome President Abdul Hamid in New Delhi yesterday afternoon. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the president and his entourage, landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport around 7:30pm (local time) yesterday.

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller yesterday said his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election was never going to end with criminal charges against President Donald Trump and indicated it was up to Congress to decide if impeachment proceedings are justified.