The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bank to submit a list of borrowers with more than Tk 1 crore in default loans as part of its efforts to salvage the banking sector from its current unstable situation.

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has repeatedly clashed with President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested at her Manila office yesterday in what press freedom advocates branded an act of "persecution".

Belgium slowed to a standstill yesterday as a national strike closed airports, shuttered businesses and caused major disruption to railways.

Pakistani authorities yesterday vowed to carry out a "massive" crackdown targeting hate speech and extremism on social media, as a minister boasted arrests have already been made.

Cameroon opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who says he was cheated out of the presidency in elections last year, has been charged with "rebellion" and "insurrection", one of his lawyers said yesterday.

A Kenyan pilot and four foreigners have died after a small plane carrying them from Kenya's Maasai Mara nature reserve crashed in the west of the country, police said yesterday.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” between two groups of robbers in Rahmatpur Kanagate area of Jashore's Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) went to Madhur Canteen yesterday for the first time in nine years , after which they shared the same table with Chhatra League leaders, ahead of the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) polls.

At least 40 people, including 20 policemen, were injured in Tuesday night's attack on several houses and shops of Ahmadiyya people in Ahmadnagar village of Panchagarh Sadar upazila.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital's Wari area early yesterday.

At least 17 people die as a fire tore through a budget hotel in Delhi, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.

Today's SSC exam on Career Education has been postponed and will now take place on March 2, as some MCQ questions of the subject were mistakenly printed in the question papers of ICT test held under Jashore Education Board yesterday, said officials.

The High Court yesterday observed that the media cannot publish names, addresses and photos of children involved in criminal cases.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged members of Ansar and VDP to remain vigilant against drug abuse, militancy and terrorism.

An 18-year-old girl, who came to Dhaka from Bhola a few days ago in search of work, was allegedly raped in the city's Rupnagar area on Sunday.

Catalan separatist leaders accused of rebellion for trying to make their region independent from Spain launched their defence yesterday at the start of a long-awaited trial.

Germany will put on a show of unity with the United States in talks on importing natural gas, as Berlin battles accusations an under-construction pipeline deepens European energy dependence on Russia.

French rail authorities yesterday said they were investigating the cause of a rare tram collision in a Paris suburb which injured 12 people, one of them seriously.

Five people were killed in southeast Nigeria during clashes between supporters of the two main political parties, police said Monday, just days before a general election.

A Japanese cultivator of bonsai trees yesterday appealed for the thieves who made off with his expensive potted plants to take good care of them.