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.

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.

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.

Indian authorities said yesterday two fire department officials had been suspended over a fire at a coaching centre that killed 21 students and one teacher in the western Gujarat state, renewing questions about building safety standards.

A rare all-white panda has been caught on camera at a nature reserve in southwest China, showing albinism exists among wild pandas in the region, state media reported.

US President Donald Trump yesterday downplayed recent North Korean missile launches as he teed off a state visit to Japan with a round of golf and a trip to the sumo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Police yesterday arrested a man on charge of raping a six-year-old girl in Brahmanbaria town on Saturday. The arrestee Bacchu Mia, 60, of Shimrailkandi area in the town, is a coconut vendor.

A Bangladeshi died early yesterday after Indian border guards opened fire on him at Dharmajoin border of Dinajpur.

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.