Furhat tilts his or her head, smiles, exudes empathy and warmth, and encourages us to open up.

India yesterday ruled out participating in the Saarc summit in Pakistan, saying terror and talks cannot go on at the same time.

Jatiya Party Presidium Member Salma Islam submitted her nomination paper as independent candidate yesterday for contesting from Dhaka-1 in the 11th parliamentary polls.

Mazkura Ayub, once an active homemaker, is now leading a life limited to watching television and taking occupational and physiotherapy at a rehabilitation centre. Neither the 63-year-old can walk with ease nor can she move three of her fingers on the left hand.

Video footage of Niaz Morshed Elite, son of BNP-nominated candidate Monirul Islam Yousuf for Chattogram-1, went viral on social media as he urged voters not to elect his father.

Thank you mayor Annisul Huq for showing us what a city father could do if he had the vision, capability and resolve to improve a city. Sad that you died too early and too suddenly. Tomorrow will be a year since you left us, while on the path to make your dream come true.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned of the threat of "full-scale war" and said Russia had sharply increased its military presence on their shared border as tensions escalate between the ex-Soviet neighbours.

The European Parliament has announced that it will not observe the upcoming national election in Bangladesh.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and three others to 10 years' imprisonment in absentia in a graft case.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police on Jashore-Chougaccha road in Dogachia Bazar area early yesterday.

Supporters of the nomination seekers of ruling Awami League and its alliance partner Jatiya Party block Dhaka-Sylhet highway putting barricades at two separate points in Brahmanbaria and Narsingdi as their desired candidates did not get party tickets.

Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar's Rakhine State and hoping to reach Malaysia, an official said yesterday.

A school-going girl was killed allegedly by a stalker on KM Das Lane in Dhaka yesterday afternoon.

Greenpeace protestors yesterday scaled a massive chimney at Poland's Belchatow coal-fired power plant as one of Europe's largest polluters gears up to host the COP24 global climate summit.

A Syrian refugee who spent several months in limbo in a budget terminal at a Malaysian airport has been granted permanent residency by Canada and is en route to Vancouver, his lawyer said yesterday.

Three US soldiers were killed and three wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan yesterday, Nato said, taking the number of American service personnel to die in the war-torn country this year to 12.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned Ukraine against any "reckless acts" after Kiev declared martial law in response to Moscow's seizure of three of its navy vessels.

Golam Faruk and his wife Afroza Akhter came empty-handed to Dhaka in 2009. Born to an insolvent family in Chapainawabganj, he was hoping a change of scene would result in a change of fortunes.

When it comes to unnatural deaths of children, road accident is the second biggest killer, right after drowning, but there is no specific government policy or action for preventing this or educating children about traffic rules.

Both ruling Awami League and its rival BNP have picked new faces for Sylhet-1 constituency which has always been considered as the general election bellwether for the parties since 1991.