Passengers had to wait for hours yesterday at Paturia and Daulatdia ferry terminals to cross the Padma river as ferry service was disrupted due to strong currents in the river.

The US government yesterday charged and sanctioned a North Korean man in the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyber attack and the 2014 cyber assault on Sony Corp, US officials said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the makeshift court had been set up in old Dhaka central jail to try BNP chief Khaleda Zia in a graft case as BNP leaders were talking about her security.

The bonnethead shark, a small member of the hammerhead family, was long thought to be a strict carnivore that would occasionally ingest greens purely by accident.

Two alleged robbers were killed in separate gunfights with police in Narayanganj and Bogra districts yesterday.

The front porch of an old Zamindar house in Demajzni Bazar area of Bogra's Shajahanpur upazila boasts of being home to a centuries-old Mahogany tree. That Mahogany tree, for years, has been housing the ever popular rose-ringed parakeet.

Local Awami League leaders have declared AL lawmaker Monoranjan Shil Gopal unwanted in his own constituency, Dinajpur-1, alleging that he is involved in corruption, patronisation of Jamaat-Shibir men and harassment of party activists.

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the government will implement the Ganges Barrage project after making changes to its design.

Supreme Court Bar Association President Zainul Abedin yesterday demanded cancellation of the law ministry's gazette that made way for holding trial of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at old Dhaka central jail.

Police yesterday brought culpable homicide charges against the owners, drivers and assistants of the two Jabal-E-Noor Paribahan buses that allegedly raced each other moments before one of them ploughed into a crowd killing two in the capital's Kurmitola on July 29.

The plying of launches and speedboats were suspended yesterday on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route due to strong currents in the Padma river.

US border patrol agents on Tuesday arrested five Bangladeshis in Texas.

Top members of Donald Trump's administration are so alarmed by his "erratic" and "amoral" behavior they are actively working to undermine him, an anonymous senior official wrote in The New York Times on Wednesday.

The Islamic State group will have been driven from all the territory it once controlled as a self-declared "caliphate" before the end of the year, French military chief Francois Lecointre said yesterday.

Russia on Wednesday accused the United States of 'destructive' meddling in Nicaragua's affairs for calling a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in the Central American country.

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman expects the annexed Golan Heights to remain under Israeli control "forever", according to an excerpt released of an interview he gave to an Israeli newspaper.

Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) has said the country's rehiring programme for the undocumented migrant workers was a failure as a large number of them were not given work permits.

Malaysian immigration police have rescued 65 Bangladeshi workers, believed to be victims of human trafficking, from the dormitory of a foreign worker recruitment company in Bandar Baru Nilai and arrested two Malaysians over the incident.

European Union envoys yesterday agreed to prolong for another six months the bloc's blacklist of people and entities involved in Russia's destabilisation of Ukraine, diplomats and officials said.

Qatar has approved legislation to scrap controversial exit visas which require all foreign workers to obtain their employers' permission to leave the country, according to official statements published Tuesday.