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.

Red Cross President Peter Maurer has said there are serious doubts about the conducive conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state for safe, voluntary and sustainable repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

Four people, including a couple and their baby girl, were killed in two landslides amid heavy rain in Bandarban yesterday.

Hills are being ravaged in the south east district of Bandarban to make way for a housing project, much to the dismay of locals and environmentalists.

The High Court yesterday directed the police to remain cautious and not to misuse handcuffs for detainees.

A group of Dhaka University students, under the banner of “Students against Repression”, formed a human chain at the foot of Raju Memorial Sculpture yesterday protesting the recent BCL attack on quota reformists.

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy in a Facebook post on Monday described a recent comment by the US ambassador in Dhaka as the “local embassy's opinion” as the incumbent US government maintained a strict policy of not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

Access to abortion and health care will be at the heart of the looming battle over the appointment of a new Supreme Court justice, with all eyes on a handful of senators with the power to endorse or block President Donald Trump's choice.

Australia's koalas, their very existence imperilled by disease, bushfires, car strikes, and dog attacks, face a more hopeful future thanks to scientists cracking its genetic code, a study said yesterday.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday came down heavily on the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) system in educational institutions, saying that the system is a bad one due to the amount of forgery involved in it.

The High Court yesterday deferred until July 8 the hearing on four appeals in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case in which BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

An alleged drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” in Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Rescuers braced for a difficult evacuation for 13 members of a Thai youth football team found alive in a cave nine days after they went missing, as a phone cable was hurriedly fed into the underground chambers in the hope of allowing them to speak to their families for the first time since their ordeal began.

The driver of a bus that veered into a ditch killing 18 passengers last month fell asleep at the wheel, a probe has found.

A headmaster died after being punched allegedly by a guardian of a student in Netrakona on Sunday.

A rescue team yesterday noon recovered the body parts of the two pilots and a part of the wreckage of the plane which crashed into Bukbhora Baor in Jessore Sadar upazila.

Equipped with fuel-efficient Akha stoves, 160 struggling farming families in Manikganj, Naogaon and Dinajpur are discovering how

Drivers and their assistants of 183 Indian trucks blocked a road in Hili land port for an hour yesterday noon, demanding offloading of 7,228 tonnes of rice they had brought in almost a month ago.

The Supreme Court yesterday extended its earlier order that stayed the bail granted by the High Court to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed in Comilla.

he cabinet has approved the National Wage Scale-2015 and allowances for the workers of public sector industries, doubling their minimum wage to Tk 8,300 as per recommendations from the National Wages and Productivity Commission 2015.