The BNP will observe the 38th death anniversary of its founder and former President Ziaur Rahman today with due respect.

For Chinese artist Guo O Dong, the simple black Samsung laptop computer, loaded with six potent viruses, symbolizes one of the world’s most frightening threats.

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister, must attend court over allegations that he knowingly lied during the Brexit referendum campaign, a judge announced yesterday.

Long-silent Special Counsel Robert Mueller was set to deliver his first public statement on the Russia meddling investigation yesterday, as he faces pressure to testify in Congress on his explosive findings.

Myanmar’s military is guilty of committing new “war crimes”, extrajudicial killings and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International said yesterday.

Chhatra League’s recent activities resemble those of militants, Ducsu Vice-president Nurul Haque Nur said yesterday.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) and its 120 partner organisations are planning to form “child protection committees” to raise awareness about sexual harassment of children, and extend legal support to victims and their families.

Transport workers fear that Eid holidaymakers will suffer delays on the Dhaka-Tangail highway, known as the gateway to northern districts, as the construction of seven out of ten underpasses still remains incomplete.

Japanese police yesterday searched the home of the man behind a stabbing rampage in the town of Kawasaki a day earlier that killed two people, including a child.

Papua New Guinea’s embattled prime minister stepped down yesterday, capping a months-long political crisis and calling a multi-billion-dollar French and US-backed gas deal into question.

Facebook and Twitter said Tuesday they shuttered accounts used in an Iran-based social media campaign to sway public opinion by impersonating reporters, politicians and others.

Hundreds of travellers remained stranded in the Sudanese capital yesterday as bus terminal staff stopped work for a second day in support of protesters demanding the ruling generals step down.

Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the killing of three activists during a deadly clash between Pakistani troops and protesters in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border.

Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said yesterday, insisting the country did not want to be a global dumping ground.

A Baghdad court sentenced two more Frenchmen to death yesterday for joining the Islamic State jihadist group, raising the number of French IS members on death row in Iraq to six.

The UN Refugee Agency and the UNDP yesterday signed an extension of an MoU with Myanmar for one year. The deal is aimed at creating conducive conditions for voluntary and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

In a big blow to Mamata Banerjee, two of her West Bengal MLAs and at least 50 TMC councillors yesterday defected to the BJP just days after the saffron party made significant inroads in the state. A CPM MLA has also jumped ship to the BJP.

Three people, including two children, were injured as the ceiling plaster of a health complex fell on them on Monday afternoon. The injured are Tamim Mollah, 7, son of Uzzal Mollah, Nur Kusum, 22, and her daughter Sharmin Khanum, 5.

Middlemen control the rice market and they are the ones who are to blame for the fall in prices, noted economist and banker Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled said yesterday.

Two people including a schoolgirl were stabbed to death and more than a dozen injured in Japan yesterday in a rampage that targeted children as they waited for a bus.