Bangladesh Chhatra League is going to drop at least 19 members from the organisation’s recently announced committee following various allegations, said BCL insiders.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the countrymen not to go abroad illegally by selling off everything as it might cost people’s lives.

Three African migrants, including one who is 15, were discovered squeezed inside compartments under car dashboards and behind seats at a border crossing from Morocco to Spain, police said yesterday.

Heavy flooding in Paraguay has displaced 70,000 families and is threatening to further inundate the capital Asuncion in the coming weeks, the country’s weather bureau said.

Police are making preparations for a second surrender programme of yaba godfathers and dealers in Cox’s Bazar.

The Alauddin Textile Mills, which had been polluting the Louhajang River in Tangail for long now, has been fined.

Nepalese police arrested suspected Maoist activists after three deadly bomb blasts in Kathmandu killed four men as a general strike disrupted daily life in much of the South Asian nation yesterday, police said.

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.

Fear has gripped Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), as murders are taking place one after another due to alleged inter-party conflicts between local armed groups.

The big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost their combined majority as support for liberals, the Greens and nationalists has seen a rise.

Police recovered the body of a female lawyer from her father’s house in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila early yesterday.

Six Bangladeshis were arrested in Agra by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) for allegedly making fake passports using false documents, a senior official said today.

The leaders of India and Pakistan spoke by phone yesterday, their offices said, in their first conversation since before tit-for-tat air strikes in February, their worst bust-up in years.

The filling up of breeding grounds, using of dredgers and illegal capturing of broodfish have resulted in poor spawning of fish, bringing dismay to egg collectors waiting for hauls on the bank of Halda, which is possibly the lone natural breeding ground for carps in South Asia.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is chopping down some 271 trees, including a number of century-old trees, for widening the Elenga-Bhuapur regional highway.

Thousands of fishermen in the coastal areas are facing tough times as they cannot get the government compensation for a 65-day ban on fishing at sea.

Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday asked police officials to check drivers’ licence, fitness certificate of buses and other necessary papers before they begin each journey.

Biman yesterday awarded the seven cockpit and cabin crew members of flight BG-147, which was allegedly exposed to a hijack threat on February 24 on its way to Dubai from Dhaka.

At least ten people died and 19 were injured after carbon dioxide leaked from a cargo ship’s fire prevention system in eastern China, local officials said yesterday.

An Afghan court yesterday sentenced two teenage boys to 30 years in prison for the abduction and killing of a young girl whose brutal murder provoked a national outcry.