Bangladesh has handed over a list of drug dealers to Myanmar who fled to the neighbouring country amid the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotics drive.

On July 6, a nine-year-old boy was stopped at Damdamia check post in Cox's Bazar by the BGB, upon receiving information that Rohingya women and children were being used as drug mules.

The High Court yesterday extended till July 19 its earlier order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrives in Dhaka this evening on a three-day official tour of Bangladesh to facilitate a comprehensive review of current bilateral relations and sign deals for further liberalising the existing visa regime and cooperation between the two countries' police forces.

Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north have caused "heavy casualties", officials said yesterday, putting the number of soldiers killed as high as 40 in ongoing fighting.

The prime accused in the Special Branch (SB) Inspector Mamun Islam Khan murder case was placed on a seven-day remand yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat had a meeting yesterday morning.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday issued a sweeping royal pardon for its soldiers deployed in Yemen, lifting any "military and disciplinary" penalties for troops taking part in its support of pro-government forces in the devastating conflict.

German prosecutors said yesterday a court had remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris on June 30.

A 45-year-old British man who was exposed to a high dose of the nerve agent Novichok is no longer in critical condition, the hospital treating him said yesterday.

The Indian government yesterday signalled it would not oppose a move to decriminalise homosexuality, as the country's top court chewed over appeals to overturn a colonial-era ban.

After years of holding Catalan separatists at arm's length despite obvious sympathy for their cause, Scotland's pro-independence First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meets Catalan president Quim Torra for the first time yesterday.

Scientists have unearthed in northwestern Argentina fossils of the earliest-known giant dinosaur, a four-legged plant-eater with a medium-length neck and long tail that was a forerunner of the largest land animals of all time.

Football came to the rescue of tense Nato leaders at a summit yesterday, providing them with a welcome diversion from the tensions roiling the transatlantic military alliance.

An Australian doctor who looked after a young Thai football team during their harrowing cave ordeal emerged from the flooded underground complex to the sad news that his own father had died.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islamichief Maqbul Ahmad was released on bail on Tuesday night, raising suspicion within the BNP.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and party's senior leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy in a case filed in connection with their derogatory comments on the Liberation War martyrs.

Thousands yesterday flocked to the funeral of a politician killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in northwestern Pakistan's Peshawar, hours after the explosion left 20 dead and 63 injured in the first major attack ahead of July 25 polls.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to remain alert so that militant activities could not be carried out in the name of Islam.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) yesterday signed a contract with a joint venture company, for the construction of a rail line to link the under-construction Rooppur nuclear power plant with the country's rail network. The agreement was signed at a programme held at the Rail Bhaban in the capital.