A ceasefire announced by Hamas largely held yesterday after a wave of deadly air strikes across the Gaza Strip sparked by the death of an Israeli soldier shot near the border.

Four more suspected drug peddlers were killed in reported “gunfights” in four districts early yesterday.

Police and the district administration of Dhaka are looking for “hidden treasure” reportedly kept under a one-storey house in Mirpur during the Liberation War in 1971.

The Barapukuria coal-fired power plant is going to shut down in a couple of days for an indefinite period due to its fuel mysteriously disappearing from a yard, officials said.

The stage built for the celebration of 57th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh caught fire last night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made Donald Trump a concrete offer on Ukraine, an ambassador said yesterday, after reports that the Kremlin chief suggested a referendum in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday backed an ongoing regional bid to resolve the conflict in South Sudan as he praised Khartoum for hosting peace talks between the country's warring groups.

President Emmanuel Macron, trying to curb what has become the most damaging scandal of his presidency, yesterday fired a top security aide who has been taken into custody after videos emerged showing him strike a young man during a demonstration in Paris in May.

Police finally recorded the case filed by the father of Rafida Khan Raifa, who died at Max Hospital in Chittagong due to doctors' negligence during her treatment.

With its head and snout covered in bony armor shaped like cones and pyramids, a spiky tank-like dinosaur unearthed in southern Utah was not just another pretty face.

The government has failed to introduce a uniform admission test, which has been overdue for eight years.

The BNP yesterday said Khaleda Zia's release was the number one precondition for its participation in the upcoming general election.

The managing director and a general manager of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) have been withdrawn after around 1.42 lakh tonnes of coal, worth over Tk 227 crore, reportedly went missing.

Pakistan's election authorities have granted broad judicial powers to the powerful military at polling stations during next week's general election, a rare move that has fanned concern among political parties and human rights groups.

An estimated 592,000 people in Bangladesh could be living in modern slavery, a condition of servitude defined as forced and state-imposed labour, sexual servitude and forced marriage, says The Global Slavery Index 2018 released on July 19.

Bangladesh Railway postponed the recruitment test for ticket collectors scheduled to be held simultaneously in Rajshahi and Chittagong yesterday following an incident of question leak.

Several women were among those killed in Myanmar's restive eastern region in renewed clashes between the army and an ethnic rebel group, with both sides providing conflicting accounts of the battle.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a New Delhi-based human rights organisation, has urged the central government of India and the Assam government to “uphold their constitutional obligations to ensure the safety and security of all, without fear or favour.”

Samar Krishna Chowdhury, who has been implicated in two “false” cases, has said two sub-inspectors with consent from the OC of Boalkhali Police Station, tried to kill him in "shootout".

Just 10 days before the Sylhet City Corporation polls, BNP rebel Badruzzaman Selim's quitting the race came as good news for party-nominated mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury.