Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims this year will not have to wait for completing the immigration process at Saudi Arabia airports as the Saudi government is going to do it in Dhaka.

Three years have gone by and there is still no headway in solving the mystery behind the murder of Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

Defying laws, some unscrupulous traders are cutting down trees to fuel a brick kiln in Manpura Island of Bhola, locals alleged.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday claimed there was no lack of security in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila where seven people, including two polling officials, were killed in a shooting on Monday.

Amid continued agitations for fresh elections to Ducsu and hall unions, the authorities yesterday fixed March 23 for the first executive meeting of newly elected student representatives of the Dhaka University.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Italy, Monaco and France this week, the foreign ministry said yesterday, with Rome expected to join his global trade infrastructure programme despite reservations in other European countries.

It is premature to say whether recent activity at some of North Korea's rocket facilities involved preparation for a missile launch, South

China yesterday defended its controversial security crackdown in the fractious far west region of Xinjiang, saying nearly 13,000 "terrorists" have been arrested there since 2014.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that the government would file a legal case in Iran against US officials who imposed sanctions on the country as a precursor to action in international courts.

Three people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed and 25 others injured in a clash at Mirpur village in Bijoynagar upazila.

An alleged drug smuggler was killed in what police said was a “gunfight” between two groups of drug traders in Meherpur's Gangni upazila early yesterday.

Police arrested the prime accused in the Sunamganj farmer leader Azad Miah murder case.

Two cabin crew members and a private bank official were arrested along with over five kg of gold in two separate drives at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital early yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday deferred until April 17 the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 16 others in the Gatco graft case as she was not produced before it due to illness.

At least three times the typical high-end broadband speed, TV service, video-on-demand, and internet telephony through a single cable from this Pahela Baishakh is what a local company is promising Dhaka dwellers.

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader Juan Guaido began a tour of his country Saturday aimed at sparking a citizen's movement to pry President Nicolas Maduro from power.

Opponents of Serb President Aleksandar Vucic broke into the state-run RTS television building on Saturday, demanding to address the population, in images aired live.

The UN envoy for Syria yesterday held talks in Damascus with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, who stressed the need for a Syrian-led political solution to the eight-year war.

Armed men killed nine villagers, including children, and torched homes in northern Nigeria Saturday, official sources said, the latest attack in a surge of violence in the Kaduna region.

The French government yesterday faced heavy criticism over failing to maintain law and order during an arson and looting rampage by "yellow vest" protesters along the famous Champs-Elysees in Paris.