Mehedi Hasan Saikat alias Juwel Munshi, 25, was popularly known as “Bullet” in the underworld.

Mehedi Hasan Miraz put the exclamation point on Bangladesh's most dominant performance in 18 years and 112 Tests with a 12-wicket haul as the Tigers outclassed West Indies by an innings and 184 runs on the third day of the second Test yesterday, thereby sealing a 2-0 whitewash.

Criminals attacked the vehicle carrying Yahya Chowdhury, a Jatiya Party lawmaker of Sylhet-2, in Burunga area of Osmaninagar upazila on Saturday night.

A textbook-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch in Tangail yesterday.

Renewed violence in Yemen's vital port city of Hodeida has left 10 fighters dead, despite a UN push for peace talks, an official and medical sources told AFP on Saturday.

Former US president George HW Bush, who guided America through the end of the Cold War and launched the international campaign to drive Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, died yesterday at his home in Houston. He was 94.

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a "gunfight" in Teknaf yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court's order of halting conviction and sentence in a corruption case against BNP Jashore-2 nominee Sabira Sultana for a day.

An 11-month-old baby girl died early yesterday, hours after she was slapped allegedly by a neighbour in the district's Sadar upazila.

A large portion of the donations meant for the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh is being spent as operational cost of international NGOs, says a study.

At least six students and a journalist were injured when Chhatra League activists attacked a group of students protesting the screening of commercial film “Dohon” at Rajshahi University yesterday.

The head of a Chinese AIDS support group yesterday expressed deep regret for helping a scientist recruit participants for a controversial experiment claiming to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies.

Belgium's domestic intelligence agency warned yesterday that the country faces a persistent terror threat, in part because of the radicalisation of prisoners.

Paris city will strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary freedom of the French capital over her failure to speak out against a crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya minority, a mayor's spokeswoman said yesterday.

As many as 500 million guests at Marriott International hotels may have been victims of a hack that in most cases pilfered passport numbers or other key identifying data, the company announced yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested three people over the killing of a Krishak League leader in Netrakona town Thursday evening.

With the number of electricity-run vehicles like easy-bikes and electric cars increasing gradually in the country, the government has decided to bring those under regulation.

G20 powers yesterday opened two days of summit talks after a stormy buildup dominated by tensions with Russia and US President Donald Trump's combative stance on trade and climate fears.

Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi escaped a gun attack unhurt in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar last night.

United States Congressman Jim Banks has placed a resolution in the House of Representatives expressing concern over the threat posed on democracy and the democratic process by theocratic groups operating in Bangladesh.