A bill was placed in parliament last night aimed at recognising top Qawmi madrasa degree Dawra-e-Hadith equivalent to the post graduate degree in Islamic studies and Arabic.

UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet yesterday said the student protesters and media professionals in Bangladesh were attacked, arrested, charged with defamation, and reportedly ill-treated in recent months.

Parliament yesterday gave the committee concerned another month for further scrutiny of the Digital Security Bill-2018.

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain (RA), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed in the country on September 21.

The government must release BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail to show its intent on holding a fair and acceptable national election, the BNP said yesterday.

Nationwide protests against record high petrol and diesel prices shut down businesses, government offices and schools in many parts of India yesterday, and in some places protesters blocked trains and roads and vandalised vehicles.

The High Court yesterday directed the lower court concerned to dispose of by today the bail application filed by internationally-acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam in a case lodged for “spreading propaganda and false information against the government”.

The prosecution yesterday told a Dhaka court that Tarique Rahman, acting chairman of BNP, was the chief architect of the August 21 grenade attack that killed 24 people including Ivy Rahman, former president of Bangladesh Mahila Awami League and wife of late President Zillur Rahman.

Turkish authorities yesterday detained 51 soldiers and nine others over alleged links to the US-based cleric who Ankara says orchestrated the failed coup in 2016 against President Tayyip Erdogan, Istanbul police said.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that triggered massive landslides in northern Japan rose to 44 yesterday with tens of thousands of police and troops still on the ground to support survivors.

Mentoo, who was formerly known as Mintoo, reached into his pocket and drew out a sepia-toned photograph. “I have a childhood photograph and can recall the name of Nagarbari ghat in Pabna's Bera upazila. Nothing else,” he said in crisp English.

A close aide to a municipality mayor was sent to jail yesterday for impersonating the mayor in a court hearing in Dhaka.

A Rab team in Rangpur arrested two people with 460gm cocaine in possession on Saturday night.

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng has urged International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to consider ICC's recommendation of opening an investigation into the atrocities against Rohingyas without delay.

With about three and a half months left before the parliamentary election, BNP leaders say their activists and supporters are in growing fear of arrest as new cases have been filed against many of their men and unnamed people.

With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea yesterday staged a military parade focused on conventional arms, peace and economic development, to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's founding.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has said the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was determined in weeding out infiltrators, be them Bangladeshis or Rohingyas.

Polytechnic student Sifat and his elder brother Saifullah bin Mansur were picked up by detectives, along with some others, and taken to the Detective Branch (DB) office on Mintoo road on Wednesday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seize a total of 215 tonnes of open market sale (OMS) rice and wheat smuggled out from a government silo in Tejgaon and Krishi Market of Mohammadpur in separate drives since yesterday.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader expresses uncertainty over completion of the Padma Bridge construction work by the scheduled time.