Myanmar is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country's National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said yesterday.

An under-construction bridge collapsed in Dakkhin Chandpur of Harirampur upazila in August last year and it has been lying untouched with the authorities concerned trading blame instead of taking action.

The government will set aside around Tk 500 crore in the next budget to bring new private secondary educational institutions under the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) scheme which has been suspended for the last seven years.

An investor needs up to a year and a half to get approvals from 42 desks of different government offices for starting a business, which according to the businesses is depriving Bangladesh of the much-needed foreign direct and domestic investments.

Alleged drug dealer Kamrul Khan Kamu, 40, who was killed in a “shootout” with detectives in Gazipur on Friday, was picked up a day before from his home by plainclothes policemen, his wife has claimed.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the ride hailing app Uber is "finished" in Turkey, following intense pressure from Istanbul taxi drivers for the service to be banned.

Citing national security concerns, US President Donald Trump's administration is working on a fresh plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants, a move critics say is unnecessary and will drive up energy costs.

A US air strike in Somalia killed 12 militants from the Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate that launches regular attacks on targets in the African nation, the United States Africa Command said on Friday.

A group of jailed opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, including a former mayor of the city of San Cristobal, have been released, the leader of the pro-Maduro Constituent Assembly announced Friday.

At least 17 civilians have been killed in an offensive by military strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces to take the last city in eastern Libya beyond his control, the United Nations said Friday.

The Pentagon on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to carry out an offensive agains Kurdish-led forces backed by the United States that control the country's north-east.

A Belgian judge has charged an accomplice of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam with a terror offence linked to the Brussels suicide bombings, prosecutors said yesterday.

When US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis attends a security summit in Singapore this weekend, he hopes to assure allies of America's commitment to the region and its aim of checking China's seemingly inexorable rise.

As Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi prepares to be sworn in for a second four-year term on Saturday, a wave of arrests signals his government's fear of social dissent, analysts say.

Detectives arrested two alleged fake note traders along with counterfeit notes worth about Tk 83,000 in the district's Badalgachhi upazila on Thursday night.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has warned Saudi Arabia's reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over his "sinful projects", in a bulletin released yesterday.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday questioned the role of police and BRTA in checking unfit vehicles on roads and asked them to go tough on such vehicles.

Malaysia has detained a Bangladeshi national and fourteen others in nationwide anti-terror raids, police said yesterday.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sought to know Bangladesh's opinion on whether it can exercise its jurisdiction over the deportation of Rohingyas. Taking the significance of the move into consideration, The Daily Star interviewed some experts to know their views on it. Today we are running the interview of M Humayun Kabir, a former foreign secretary of Bangladesh and permanent representative to the UN in New York.

Many ticket seekers came to Kamalapur Railway Station at the stroke of Thursday midnight. Some of them took sehri before the closed ticket counters. They all wanted to grab advance tickets for their journey home ahead of Eid.