The number of arrests and cases over drug crimes went up over the last five years but the conviction rate in such cases declined during the period with the lowest last year, says a government report.

A project to save the Kuakata beach from erosion taken up by Water Development Board faces uncertainty as the planning ministry has sent back the proposal for a fresh feasibility study.

Detectives picked up BNP national executive committee member Maj (retd) Mizanur Rahman from his house in the capital's Gulshan in the wee hours of yesterday.

Prince William honoured Holocaust victims and met Israeli leaders yesterday as he began the first official visit by a British royal to both Israel and the Palestinian territories, at a time of heightened tensions.

Australia will invest Aus$7 billion (US$5.2 billion) to develop and buy high-tech US drones for joint military operations and to monitor waters including the South China Sea, it said yesterday.

At least four people were injured in a shooting at a park in Hong Kong yesterday, police said, a rare attack in the southern Chinese city which has a reputation for safety.

Thousands of men, women and children made homeless by the Boko Haram insurgency risk disease because of lack of shelter in northeast Nigeria, aid workers said yesterday.

The EU on Monday hit the Venezuelan vice-president and 10 other officials with sanctions over rights abuses and irregularities in the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro, which the bloc condemned as "neither free nor fair".

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for six months in a vandalism case filed in Comilla. The apex court also vacated its chamber judge's order that stayed the HC order.

The US Supreme Court yesterday upheld President Donald Trump's controversial ban on travelers from five mostly Muslim countries -- a major victory for the Republican leader after a tortuous legal battle.

Two persons, allegedly involved in the abduction and murder of schoolboy Dev Dutt, were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Kushtia's Mirpur upazila early yesterday.

Two school boys were killed and another injured on their way home from school when a tree being chopped down fell on them in Pabna's Sujanagar upazila Monday afternoon.

A Bangladeshi peacekeeper in South Sudan was killed when an aid convoy was ambushed in the west of the country yesterday, the United Nations mission said.

Myanmar's military said it sacked a top general who was named in fresh EU sanctions against security officials accused of serious rights violations in the Rohingya crisis, including killings and sexual violence.

The government and UNHCR are expected to complete a comprehensive and unified database of Rohingya refugees, who fled from Myanmar, in the next five to six months.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday celebrated winning sweeping new powers in a decisive election victory, as his main rival accepted the outcome despite bitter complaints over the conduct of the campaign.

As flood water recedes, thousands of affected families, from two districts in Sylhet division, are returning home only to see their dwellings ravaged by the deluge.

The government is going to build 560 model mosques in district and upazila towns across the country spending Tk 8,722 crore from its own resources as Saudi Arabia has not made the funds available.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he wants to renegotiate a "ridiculous" water supply agreement with Singapore, the latest sign of fraying ties between the neighbours since last month's shock election.

Holding her husband hostage at knife-point, five men have gang-raped a 20-year-old woman at Bandar upazila in Narayanganj, police said, quoting the couple.