Rab seized 29,000 yaba pills from a small truck heading for Dhaka in Mirsarai upazila yesterday and filed a case against a police officer, the driver and helper of the truck in this connection.

Despite some measures taken by the authorities to ensure road safety following the recent student movement, the number of road accidents and causalities has increased during the Eid rush this year compared to last year's figures, according to a passenger welfare platform.

Five people were killed and at least 15 others injured when a bus collided head-on with a tractor on Palashbari-Gaibandha road in Gaibandha last night.

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested six suspected militants of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in separate drives in Rajshahi and Barisal in 24 hours since Thursday night.

Unidentified criminals stabbed an Awami League leader to death in Sylhet city's Zindabazar area last night.

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

Yemen faces a possible third wave of a cholera epidemic, the UN warned Thursday, following a jump in the number of suspected cases over recent weeks.

The Trump administration is considering sending some captured Islamic State fighters, including the two "Beatles," British citizens who took part in beheadings, to the military-run prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, NBC reported Thursday.

Two drivers died as their vehicles caught fire following a head-on collision in Bottoli area of Dinajpur's Kaharol upazila last night.

It was around 10:15am yesterday. In half an hour, a programme to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances was about to begin at an auditorium of Jatiya Press Club. The air inside had already turned heavy with cries of the relatives of some victims.

A Spanish NGO yesterday said it will halt its migrant rescue missions off Libya to support operations in Spain, as it denounced the "criminalisation" of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday appointed a string of new governors to key regions, the latest shake-up since winning re-election in March.

US whistleblower Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking classified information, is facing a ban from Australia with organisers of a speaking tour saying yesterday her visa application was likely to be refused.

China yesterday told Japan to "rein in its journalists" after Tokyo lodged a protest over Beijing blocking a Japanese reporter from covering a meeting between top diplomats from the two countries.

British Prime Minister Theresa May ended a three-nation tour of Africa in Kenya yesterday, promising post-Brexit trade continuity and hoping to strengthen ties before quitting the European Union.

Donald Trump said Wednesday that White House counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his post, signalling more upheaval in the US president's legal team as the probe into Russia's election interference closes in on his inner circle.

The stork has symbolic significance in many regions. The Greek etymology behind the word stork means mother-love, while according to a German fairy-tale the stork is “mother-bird”. Colonists of North America considered it a symbol of love and welcoming and in Chinese wisdom, the bird symbolises longevity and old age.

A mob beat a schoolboy to death in front of his three siblings and grandmother in Gafargaon upazila of the district yesterday morning.

Three public representatives, including a lawmaker, have asked the district administration to stop the drive against unauthorised vehicles like human hauliers and three-wheelers on Natore-Pabna highway.

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned as Myanmar's de facto leader over last year's brutal army campaign against the Rohingyas, the outgoing UN human rights chief has told the BBC.