Rab and police said five “criminals”, including two “drug traders”, were killed in “gunfights” with the law enforcers in Dhaka and two other districts early yesterday.

Parliament last night approved 90 days' leave for ailing Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, who is undergoing treatment at a Bangkok hospital.

Rab said a drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with its patrol team in Baraigram upazila early yesterday.

More than three million people have been moved to safety in southern China as Typhoon Mangkhut moved northward and continued to wreak havoc across the region yesterday.

Bangladesh has been ranked the least innovative country and Singapore the most innovative in Asia.

Three people including two hijras were injured when unidentified assailants stopped their car and opened fire on them on Baipail-Abdullahpu Highway in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said there was a wide gap between what political parties pledged in their election manifestos and what they actually did.

Several hundred grassroots leaders of the Awami League and the BNP yesterday pledged to work towards a free, fair and peaceful general election.

Denuclearisation will be high on the agenda for this week's inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday on the eve of his third meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis yesterday accused Russia of attempting to influence the outcome of a referendum in Macedonia on changing the country's name that would open the way for it to join Nato and the European Union.

The authorities in a district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha have started deleting the names of suspected Bangladeshis who figured in the list of voters, officials said.

Germany yesterday rolled out the world's first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology.

There were hardly any classes in the last three days at Dhobakhola Coronation High School and College in Bera upazila after local lawmaker Khandaker Azizul Haque Arzu on Saturday used the classrooms to feed thousands of villagers who left behind litter and leftover food everywhere.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will jointly inaugurate the construction of Bangladesh-India Friendship Pipeline between Shiliguri in West Bengal and Parbatipur in Dinajpur today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed anger as ministers and lawmakers did not visit Shariatpur's Naria upazila, which has been hit hard by the Padma erosion.

Police detained seven BNP and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal men from “in front of” Sylhet BNP President Abul Kaher Shamim's house at Jatarpur following a “clash between police and BNP men” yesterday evening.

A super typhoon makes landfall in China’s Guangdong, the country’s most populous province, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and killing potentially more than 50 people in the Philippines.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said people were now getting back their trust and confidence in the police force as they were discharging their responsibilities with utmost honesty, sincerity, devotion and dedication to ensure their security.

Elections to Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) would be held by March next year, said DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman yesterday.

At least nine civilians have been killed in twin attacks in eastern Burkina Faso, a poor West African country where jihadists have been gaining ground in recent months, local authorities said Saturday.