Iran executed a trader known as the "Sultan of Bitumen" yesterday over charges of fraud and large-scale smuggling of the oil product, the judiciary's news agency Mizan online reported.

Ottawa and Washington on Friday stepped up pressure on Beijing, calling for the immediate release of two Canadians detained in apparent retaliation for the arrest in Vancouver of a top Chinese tech executive on a US warrant.

A construction worker was killed and another severely injured after a crane fell on them in Rooppur nuclear power plant project area of Pabna's Ishwardi on Friday evening.

A police OC in Satkhira has been withdrawn for allegedly seeking vote for the Awami League's electoral symbol “Boat”.Although the role of mass media is very crucial in national elections, the mainstream media in Bangladesh are failing to play their part, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

BSTI will collect and test samples of Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder for asbestos in a couple of days after a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.

The officer-in-charge of Kolaroa Police Station in Satkhira allegedly sought vote for Awami League's electoral symbol “Boat,” violating the electoral code of conduct.

Both Bangladesh and West Indies will be looking to finish 2018 on a positive note when they lock horns for their last international fixture of the year in the third and series-deciding T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, beginning at 5:00pm, today.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition yesterday killed 13 jihadist fighters and 14 of their relatives in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.

Craftsman Dhananjoy Roy has turned his thatched hut in a remote village of Nilphamari into a mini Liberation War museum.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday, leading a chorus of protests at home and abroad after President Donald Trump ordered a complete troop pullout from Syria and a significant withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Unknown criminals yesterday set eight houses of a Hindu family on fire in Thakurgaon.

The United Nations has said it is closely following the situation ahead of the upcoming general election in Bangladesh scheduled for December 30.

Indian farmer Nur Mohammed can barely sleep for worrying that his wife might soon be made stateless, put in a detention camp and deported.

Violence during election campaign is part of the country's political culture, Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam said yesterday.

The US this year arrested over 10,000 members of "transnational gangs," its immigration enforcement agency announced Thursday -- including over 2,000 members of MS-13, regularly cited as a threat by US President Donald Trump.

Indian police yesterday arrested 126 people working for a allegedly fake call centre making up to $50,000 a day by duping US citizens, officials said.

An Indian man released this week after being jailed for six years in Pakistan issued advice on Friday not to follow his example and fall in love on Facebook.

A 77-year-old Russian rights activist was freed yesterday after spending over two weeks in jail for calling for a protest, vowing to continue his campaigning.

One person has died and another has been seriously injured yesterday after shots were fired in the historic centre of the Austrian capital Vienna, an ambulance service spokesman told AFP.

Former Argentina president Cristina Kirchner, who has been accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars in bribes during her term in office, will go on trial for corruption, a federal court confirmed on Thursday.