At least four people, including three Rohingyas, were killed, and 10 others injured, in a road crash in Ukhia upazila on the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway yesterday.

Sheets of corrugated iron tied to bamboo poles make the roofs and the walls on one particular side. The remaining sides are left open. The floor is left in its natural state with parts of it growing clusters of grass. Benches, strewn inside the structure, are the only indication that this building is the Purba Satunama Aminpara govt primary school.

Most secondary school students use mobile phones, computers and have access to social media and about 55 percent of them use Facebook as their medium for getting news, according to a survey.

India has roped in international expertise to prevent a major oil spill from a stranded cargo ship that caught fire in the Bay of Bengal close to the Sundarbans even as the government yesterday said a “minor oil leakage” took place from the vessel.

An Istanbul court yesterday acquitted one of Turkey's most prominent political journalists in a long-running case on espionage charges dating back to an arms interception on the Syrian border in 2014.

Traders, led by seven business bodies, at Benapole Land Port yesterday stopped offloading goods from trucks and called for an indefinite strike protesting Border Guard Bangladesh personnel taking permanent position at the custom's weighbridge.

The Election Commission, with the support of all political parties, the administration and other stakeholders, will be able to hold an ”inclusive, fair and neutral” general election by the end of this year, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said.

A candidate from Nigeria's ruling party won a key state gubernatorial on Sunday, the electoral body said, marking an early victory for President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of general elections next year.

Israel's supreme court on Sunday rejected an appeal against house arrest for an Israeli suspect in a 2015 firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, his lawyers said.

US President Donald Trump has seemingly breached royal protocol by discussing his private conversation with Queen Elizabeth II who he says thinks Brexit is a "very complex problem", according to an interview with British media.

Six people have died in Cameroon from a cholera outbreak that has infected 43 people since May, the health ministry said.

The general secretary of Jubo Samity, youth wing of Jana Sanghati Samity (MN Larma), of Taindong Union unit was shot dead early yesterday in Khagrachhari.

Thirteen Supreme Court lawyers yesterday sent legal notices to the authorities of Dhaka and Rajshahi universities to inform them in 24 hours what action has been taken against the BCL men for attacks on students demanding quota reform in public jobs.

Police officers in the Mexican town of Alvarado were recently stripped of their firearms and armed with slingshots and rocks instead, after most of them failed their control tests and were deemed unfit for service.

The government is planning to amend the Representation of the People Order (RPO) to remove Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman from the party's leadership and make them disqualified for elections, BNP alleged yesterday.

Two alleged drug dealers including a former Jubo League leader were killed in a “gunfight” between police and criminals in Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday, hours after police picked up both men.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Myanmar agrees on all issues during dialogues over the return of displaced Rohingyas, but it finally does not act.

Assailants shot a Jubo League leader dead in the capital's Mohakhali area early yesterday.

Chittagong City Corporation's yearlong development work on Port Connecting Road (PC road) is taking its toll on Dhaka Trunk Road (DT road), another major route used by the commuters, leading to its miserable state.

India has assured Bangladesh of all sorts of cooperation in setting up border outposts (BOP), constructing roads and installing surveillance equipment and censors in remote bordering areas.