A team of detectives from Dhaka yesterday arrested Mizanur Rahman Naomi in Barura upazila of Comilla in connection with his alleged phone conversion with BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, said an officer of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

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.

Mainly cars and motorcycles came under police scrutiny on the first day of “Traffic Week” yesterday, amid an unannounced transport strike.

A group of unidentified youths attacked the house of Shusashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar in the capital's Mohammadpur last night.

The information ministry has requested” Ekattor TV not to air programmes, news, and footage that go against the National Broadcast Policy-2014 and could encourage public disorder.

Students involved in the movement for safe roads yesterday turned down Chhatra League's offer for a joint procession to press home their demands.

A Palestinian teen died of his wounds Saturday a day after he was shot by Israeli troops during clashes on the Gaza border, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said.

Britain's opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday conceded in a newspaper article that his party had a "real problem" with anti-Semitism as the issue continues to dog the veteran leftist.

Word that Google is crafting a search engine to meet China's draconian censorship rules has sparked widespread employee anger at the company which has responded by limiting workers' access to documents about the project, a report said Friday.

Former Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom, arrested in February over corruption allegations, left preventative detention Friday night after his bond was paid, the state penitentiary system said.

The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted.

Even behind bars, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will secure his leftist party's nomination Saturday and continue to overshadow more likely candidates in the country's most unpredictable presidential election for decades.

Students involved in the movement for safe roads yesterday turned down Chhatra League's offer for a joint procession to press home their demands.

A chemistry teacher allegedly threw acid on a student at a class room of Habiganj Technical School and College yesterday morning.