The Prime Minister’s Office yesterday asked the secretary of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) to submit lists of state-run jute mill workers and their bank account details so that their arrears and retirement benefits could be paid.

A US federal court on Friday heard the first of many challenges to President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency to pay for construction of a wall along the southern border with Mexico.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Saturday granted an amnesty to 762 convicts to mark a key Buddhist anniversary, but resisted calls to release a firebrand Buddhist monk.

Aminu Magami, a taxi driver in northwest Nigeria, froze in fear when more than 20 gunmen stormed an expressway one night in February, shooting into the air.

She died just as she had lived, in a blizzard of memes, tweets and news reports celebrating her feline frown and distinctly unamused expression.

The forest department and police seized five maunds of deer meat, two deer skulls and two deer skins from a nameless fishing trawler on Padma Canal at Patharghata upazila in Barguna yesterday.

The landmark High Court verdict delivered in 2015 to prevent owners from arbitrarily raising house rents and collecting excess rents from tenants has become ineffective as its full text could not be released due to death of the judge presiding the relevant bench.

Law enforcers rescued some 62 Rohingyas, including children and women, in two drives in Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua and Teknaf upazilas early yesterday while they were being trafficked to Malaysia.

Students, teachers, cultural activists, and civil society members in Khulna yesterday joined the state-owned jute mill workers’ demonstration demanding fair wages and arrears. In Chattogram, workers of Amin Jute Mills resumed their protests after a weekend break.

Six people were killed and at least 15 others injured as a bus crashed into a roadside tree in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat yesterday.

Two more bridges on the Meghna and Gumti rivers are all set to open to traffic next week.

Prince Harry’s wife Meghan gave birth at a private hospital in London earlier this month, their son’s birth certificate revealed, according to British media on Friday.

Boko Haram fighters in northeastern Nigeria massacred at least 14 people in separate attacks on Thursday, including farmers and fishermen beside a lake, locals said Friday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday night, hours after the law enforcers detained him from his home.

Victims of a Chile-based Nazi pedophile sect said compensation offered by Germany was not enough to make up for decades of slavery and abuse.

North Korea is experiencing its worst drought in over a century, official media reported yesterday, days after the World Food Programme expressed “very serious concerns” about the situation in the country.

Criminals stabbed five people, who earlier handed over some drug peddlers to police in Chandpur’s Kachua upazila, on Thursday night.

Police yesterday arrested a youth on charge of raping a 14-year-old physically challenged girl in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila.

A five-month-old infant was killed in a road accident on Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in the city’s Satrasta area early yesterday.

Police made new arrests following clashes and poured thousands of security forces into the eastern city of Kolkata yesterday as tensions mounted ahead of the final round of voting in India’s marathon election.