About 200 Kosovo war veterans blocked the road leading to Banje ahead of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's planned visit to the village later yesterday.

An alleged drug peddler was injured and another arrested during a “shootout” with police in Bogra's Dupchanchia upazila early yesterday.

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.

Masked assailants hurled rocks and bottles at a Jewish restaurant, injuring the owner, in an apparently anti-semitic attack on the sidelines of a wave of neo-Nazi protest in an east German city, authorities and reports said Saturday.

A film that follows two friends through four nightmarish years of the Syrian civil war has lifted some of the top prizes at the Venice film festival, which ends Saturday.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday blamed US President Donald Trump after inflation hit a nine-year high in the Philippines, hurting the image of the populist leader.

A Palestinian teen died of his wounds yesterday a day after he was shot by Israeli troops during a protest on the Gaza border, the enclave's health ministry said.

A mob beat a man to death allegedly for sexually harassing a child at Mirzapur upazila on Friday night.

Barack Obama on Friday assailed US Republicans for failing to keep President Donald Trump in check, in a forceful return to the political fray aimed at firing up Democratic voters ahead of key midterm elections.

Police are hunting for five of the 17 girl inmates who escaped from a juvenile detention centre in Gazipur early yesterday.

India’s top counter-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA) files a charge-sheet in a special court against five Bangladeshi nationals for aiding banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).

A part of the century-old Gabkhan Channel has been grabbed and turned into a temporary dock in Jhalakathi Sadar for loading and off-loading construction materials of a nearby highway.

Lack of democracy and good governance was apparent in the country and it posed a challenge to achieving sustainable development, experts said at a discussion yesterday.