The Indian government yesterday clarified that people whose names are not included in the final list of citizens residing in the northeastern state of Assam will not automatically be declared foreigners.

The annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs) gets underway in the capital today, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina likely to give them some directives ahead of the upcoming parliamentary polls.

The FBI believed that a former Trump campaign advisor had ties to Russia as it sought to influence the 2016 US presidential election, top secret documents released to US news organizations revealed on Saturday.

Rab unearthed an arms factory during a raid at a hill in Kalarmar Chhara of Moheshkhali and recovered a huge stock of arms yesterday.

Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three following a depression over north coastal Odisha and adjoining West Bengal.

Defying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's warning, Chhatra League men attacked four quota reformists in Elephant Road and Suhrawardy Uddyan areas.

The UN Security Council has convened a closed-door meeting tonight to discuss Myanmar issue where the Rohingya crisis would come up prominently.

The Barapukuria Power Plant was shut down last night for an indefinite period for a lack of fuel supply, a direct fallout of some 1.45 lakh tonnes of coal “going missing” from the yard of Barapukuria coalmine.

Rambutan, a tropical fruit closely related to the litchi, has started making its bright colourful appearance in Rangamati.

The charge sheet in the case filed for the militant attack on Gulshan's Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1, 2016, will be submitted to the court today.

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) expects to produce gas from the third well of Begumganj Gas Field in Noakhali, officials said.

Detectives yesterday arrested a Rajshahi BNP leader who “confessed that his own party men were involved” in Tuesday's crude bomb blasts at a BNP rally in the city.

Thousands of people marched across major Australian cities yesterday calling for an end to Canberra's offshore detention of asylum-seekers.

Iranian authorities ruled Saturday that a member of the minority Zoroastrian religion had been wrongly suspended from his post on a city council.

Hundreds of rebels and their families evacuated from southern Syria after a deal was struck with the regime arrived yesterday in the country's northwest, an AFP correspondent said.

The European Union's migrant strategy suffered a major new setback Friday with Italy refusing to freely accept people rescued at sea and Libya spurning a proposal for asylum processing centres.

A Bangladeshi teenage boy wounded by BSF firing early yesterday on Kathaldangi border in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon died on his way to hospital.

It was raining around 12:30pm yesterday. Despite this, a group of workers, equipped with shovels and rakes, was trying to level freshly laid asphalt on TA Road near Ghorapatty intersection in Brahmanbaria town. Next to them two road rollers were moving in different directions to compact the surface.

French car maker Citroën recently unveiled a pair of glassless, liquid-filled eye-glasses that can reportedly treat the symptoms of motion sickness.

A key member of an international advisory panel on Myanmar's crisis-hit Rakhine state has resigned, telling AFP yesterday that the Aung San Suu Kyi-appointed board risks becoming "part of the problem" in a conflict that forced 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee.