A suspected leader of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party's Lal Pataka faction was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives at Rajbari Sadar upazila in the early hours of yesterday.

Dhaka has urged Beijing to encourage Myanmar to create a conducive environment for a speedy return of Rohingyas to their home in Rakhine.

A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the centre of the Australian city of Melbourne yesterday and stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police in a rampage they called an act of terrorism.

A plan to start repatriating Rohingyas back to Myanmar is premature and the refugees are "terrified" about leaving Bangladesh where they sought refuge, dozens of aid agencies working in the region said yesterday.

The Roads and Highways Department is razing parts of Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary in Chattogram to build a 12km road without assessing its environmental impact or obtaining permission from the environment ministry.

A sub-inspector of Bayezid Police Station allegedly raped a housewife threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case.

Unidentified criminals shot dead a trader in the city's Pallabi area last night allegedly over extortion money.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a member of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) at Longadu upazila in the early hours yesterday.

A 13-year-old Tripura girl was allegedly raped by two men in Chittagong's Mirsarai upazila on Thursday.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on November 21 as the moon of Rabiul Awal was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

A motorised wheelchair used by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking sold at auction on Thursday for almost 300,000 pounds ($391,740.00) while a dissertation raised nearly twice that at a sale to raise money for charity.

Father of a schoolgirl accused 16 young men of gang-raping his daughter in a case filed nearly two weeks after the alleged incident in Tangail's Dhanbari upazila.

`Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced “Baishakhi Festival” allowance and five percent increment for teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions under monthly pay order (MPO).

A suspected drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chuadanga's Uzalpur village early yesterday.

Bangladesh's coast guard rescued 33 Rohingya and detained six alleged human traffickers from a fishing trawler headed for Malaysia in the Bay of Bengal, an official said Wednesday.

A Pakistani Christian woman has been freed from prison yesterday a week after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction and death sentence for blasphemy against Islam, and she is at a secure location in the country, officials said.

The government has promoted 235 additional superintendents of police to superintendents of police.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday claimed to have busted a militant gang whose members in the guise of NGO workers had long been spreading terror propaganda among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.

Syrian state media said yesterday the army has freed all remaining Druze women and children abducted in July from the southern province of Sweida by the Islamic State group.

At least 2.3 million people have fled Venezuela's economic and political crisis since 2015, the UN said yesterday, warning that host countries' capacity to shelter them was now "severely strained".