Prof Abu Sayeed, former Awami League state minister for information, joined the Gonoforum, a component of the Jatiya Oikyafront, yesterday and collected the party's nomination form to contest the upcoming national polls from Pabna-1.

Bahrain has said it "completely rejects" attempts to tarnish the reputation of neighbouring Saudi Arabia, whose powerful crown prince has been under intense scrutiny since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Turkish prosecutors yesterday demanded multiple life sentences for the prime suspect in a 2013 bombing blamed on Syria which left more than 50 people dead, state media reported.

Afghanistan's embattled election organisers are considering delaying April's presidential ballot by three months, officials said yesterday, as they struggle to tally votes cast in the recent legislative poll and resolve thousands of complaints.

Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked her party candidates to go to their electoral constituencies saying that the upcoming national election would be "competitive".

The Gonoforum, a component of the Jatiya Oikyafront, yesterday promised it would do everything to reduce the rising economic inequality in the country if the party was voted to power in the upcoming parliamentary election.

At least 22 police officers were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, a health official said yesterday, in another blow to Afghan forces already suffering record casualties.

Norwegian cruise operator Hurtigruten plans to use dead fish to power some of its ships, it said yesterday, as it seeks to reduce its pollution and climate change impact.

An alleged criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with the Detective Branch of Police in the capital's Gandaria area early yesterday.

In a rare move, Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar camps yesterday began a three-day strike protesting what they say is the forcible issuing of 'smart cards' which exclude the word 'Rohingya'.

A physically challenged indigenous woman was murdered after she was allegedly raped in Bandarban on Sunday.

Criminals shot dead a former Chhatra League leader in Cumilla city last night.

A two-member election expert mission representing the European Union arrives here today to monitor the situation before and after the national election.

Kiev and Moscow were facing their worst crisis in years as Ukraine and its Western allies demanded the release of three ships fired on and seized by Russia near Crimea.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday framed charges against eight alleged militants in the Gulshan cafe attack case and set December 3 for starting the trial with recording of the complainant's testimony.

Two suspected criminals including an alleged yaba trader were killed in separate “gunfights” in Cox's Bazar and Kushtia early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of “fictitious cases” filed against the activists of BNP and other political parties across the country.

Ukraine's navy said that Russia's border guards yesterday rammed one of its tugboats in the Black Sea off Moscow-annexed Crimea in "openly aggressive actions."

Israeli police arrested the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem for the second time in as many months, a spokesman said yesterday, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale.

Twelve people have been killed in a suspected Islamist militant attack in northern Mozambique, with thousands of villagers fleeing into neighbouring Tanzania, police sources said yesterday.