The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seized necessary documents of the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) yesterday.

Three top BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were sued yesterday for their alleged involvement in “instigating agitating students to wage an anti-government movement”.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrives in Dhaka today for a brief but important visit to Bangladesh to discuss economic cooperation and the Rohingya issue with top government officials.

Police say 11 children ages one to 15 were rescued in the US state of New Mexico after officers raided a dilapidated compound occupied by armed men.

Amnesty International, as well as a number of other organisations, condemned the detention of noted photographer Shahidul Alam and demanded his immediate release.

California's deadly Carr wildfire -- now the state's sixth most destructive -- has claimed another life with a power linesman killed on the job its seventh fatality, officials said Sunday.

A 95-year-old woman injured in Greece's deadliest fire last month died early yesterday, raising the death toll to 91, state agency ANA reported.

The authorities of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia yesterday temporarily suspended a female student over an alleged Facebook post demeaning Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).

Sub-inspector Md Mokarram Hossain of Sirajganj Sadar Police Station was closed and attached to Sirajganj Police Lines on Sunday night for violating traffic rules.

In support of the students' movement for safe roads in Dhaka, some 1,000 students from different educational institutes and students organisations yesterday staged two demonstrations near the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission office in Kolkata.

Three people were killed and one was injured after they entered a septic tank of an under-construction building in Narsingdi yesterday.

Students halted the SUV of Deputy Inspector General Banaj Kumar Majumdar, chief of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), at Science Lab intersection around 10:20am, said witnesses.

Protesters yesterday demonstrated encircling a car apparently of a foreigner as the driver tried to speed away after he was asked to show his licence.

Actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed, who was held on Saturday night for spreading rumour on Facebook, was placed on a four-day remand yesterday in a case filed under the ICT Act.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he was "more determined than ever" after he escaped an "assassination" attempt using an explosive-laden drone as he gave a speech during a Caracas military parade.

Police yesterday arrested Nusrat Jahan Sonia, 26, an assistant teacher of Dokkhin Tiakhalai Government Primary School, at her home in Kalapara area of Patuakhali for allegedly “spreading rumour” on Facebook about the student protests.

Shahidul Alam, a noted photographer and founder of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, was attacked allegedly by ruling party activists on Saturday afternoon.

Detectives detained noted photographer Shahidul Alam last night for interrogation over his Facebook posts on the ongoing student protest.

Principals and headmasters of different colleges and schools in the capital yesterday expressed their concern over the safety of their students, saying that the pupils might be harassed by transport workers in the coming days.

Many journalists covering yesterday's attacks on demonstrating students near Science Laboratory intersection said their helmets were taken away from their parked motorcycles by the attackers.