Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) expects to have won only seven of 13 seats up for grabs in by-elections, a spokesman said yesterday, conceding that Myanmar's ruling party needed to do more for voters from ethnic minorities.

During the early hours of an April day, as remnants of a storm from the night before formed into a drizzle, small “meows” could be heard from a fourth-storey sunshade of a building in Khilgaon.

A group of outsiders clashed with Gonoshasthya Kendra officials and Gono University students at the PHA Bhaban of Gonoshasthaya Kendra yesterday, leaving 12 people injured.

Sri Lanka's deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the United States and Japan had frozen more than a billion dollars of development aid after his abrupt dismissal raised doubts about the future of democracy in the island.

The government yesterday approved 39 development projects worth Tk 86,687 crore in an apparent move to woo voters ahead of the general election.

At least 13 people, including three policemen, were injured as the activists of Awami League and BNP clashed on the Rangpur court premises over throwing shoes and eggs at barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday.

Multiple ruling Awami League ticket aspirants are campaigning in full swing in most of the constituencies in Dhaka district.

Apart from a few constituencies like Gopalganj-3 from where Awami League President Sheikh Hasina runs, most seats in the districts of Dhaka division have multiple hopefuls for AL tickets.

The Trump administration is to reinstate all US sanctions on Iran removed under the 2015 nuclear deal in a "maximum pressure" effort to cripple the country's economy.

More than 35 projects, mainly involving police, rural and urban infrastructure development, are likely to be placed for approval before a special Ecnec meeting today.

A teenage Rohingya girl, who was adopted by a Bangladeshi family, was killed at her house in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.

The order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from the "highest levels" of the Saudi government, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says in the Washington Post and he calls for the "puppetmasters" to be unmasked.

A suspected member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and an alleged drug peddler were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Detective Branch of police in Mymensingh early yesterday.

A woman, one of the five victims who suffered burn injuries in a fire caused by leaky gas lines at their flat in Ashulia area of Savar yesterday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury yesterday claimed that the organisation was attacked because of his involvement with the Jatiya Oikyafront.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday claimed the talks between the newly floated Jatiya Oikyafront and the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance had no outcome.

Standing at the site of the epic battle of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam, French colonel Jacques Allaire wept at the memory of his 4,000 fellow fighters who died in the bloody fight that would spell the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina.

Jihadists have killed three village chiefs in less than a week in Iraq's restive north, local officials said Saturday, as the targeting of state representatives escalates.

An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said yesterday.

The Vatican has opened its archives to detectives hunting for clues to the identity of a skeleton discovered in its embassy in Rome, as another potential murder victim emerged yesterday.