Protesting the BCL attacks on students demanding quota reform in government jobs, female students of Dhaka University yesterday took to the streets and sought a safe campus for students.

There are irregularities in the operations of privately-run Max Hospital in Chittagong city, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) probe has found.

Two separate courts in Dhaka yesterday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases filed over "undermining” the national flag and celebrating her "fake” birthday on August 15.

Floodwaters rushing down from highlands in India have inundated much of the low lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts.

Two suspects in Awami League leader Farhad Hossain murder case were killed in a “gunfight” between detectives and criminals in the capital's Badda area early yesterday.

Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya refugees who have tried to return home, the UN human rights chief said yesterday, questioning the sincerity of the government's purported repatriation programme.

The formation of the much-awaited new committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League would take some more time, two BCL leaders said last night after a meeting between Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and the aspirants for the committee posts.

China's internet giant Baidu announced yesterday it had begun mass producing the country's first autonomous mini-bus, as the firm prepares to roll them out in tourist spots and airports.

Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving yesterday as part of complex preparations to extract a young soccer team trapped in a cave, and hoping for a swift end to their harrowing 11-day ordeal.

A case was filed against five people including a ruling Awami League leader under the Special Powers Act in connection with grabbing government land on the Dhaleshwari in Singair.

Just eight weeks after losing an election, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was charged yesterday with abuse of power and criminal breach of trust in an investigation over billions of dollars missing from a state fund.

One hundred thirty labour rights and civil society organisations from different parts of the world yesterday demanded immediate suspension of Malaysia's crackdown on undocumented foreign workers.

A person allegedly stabbed his mother, younger brother, and aunt to death in their sleep at Bera upazila early yesterday.

Executive Director of United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) Natalia Kanem has said the heavy rainfall in the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar and its impact are already compounding the sufferings of the Rohingyas, even as they try to rebuild their lives.

Two more patients died in separate hospitals in Chittagong city after alleged negligence in treatment on Tuesday.

Monsoon is active over Bangladesh and the Met office has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in most places in the country and several places in India for the next two days.

Philippine soldiers backed by armoured vehicles have retaken a southern town held for 12 hours by pro-Islamic State militants, the army said yesterday, with four rebels killed in urban clashes reminiscent of a five-month siege last year.

Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya's worst floods in recent years are living on the brink with barely enough food to eat two months after the disaster, aid workers warned yesterday, calling on authorities to provide increased funding and support.

Residents and activists voiced concern yesterday that Israel is set to raze a Bedouin village in a strategic part of the occupied West Bank ignoring international calls for a reprieve.

A rare parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found at a British archive among the papers of an aristocrat who supported the rebels, officials have said.