The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday interrogated Ha-Meem Group owner AK Azad, also an ex-president of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, over allegation of amassing wealth illegally.

In a field of sugar beet in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps them with jets of blue liquid from its mechanical tentacles.

Her journey and experience thus far have already reminded everyone of the horrors of the Rohingya crisis that began late last year, as she visited the bordering region of Teknaf in Cox's Bazar where hundreds and thousands of refugees are now stationed.

Bangabandhu-1, the first commercial satellite of the country, reached its orbital slot on 119.1 degrees east yesterday.

CNG filling stations across the country will remain open round-the-clock for four days each before and after the Eid-ul-Fitr, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday.¬

Julekha Begum, a resident of Gendaria DIT plot, could not make iftar on the first day of Ramadan as the gas supply went out at 9:00am and did not resume before iftar.

The UN is violating press freedom by blocking access to Taiwanese journalists trying to cover the world body's major health meeting, Taipei's health minister said yesterday.

More than two dozen pro-government forces based in Syria's desert died in a surprise Islamic State group attack yesterday, a day after the jihadists' ouster from the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said.

Thai police yesterday detained leaders of an anti-junta protest who had tried to mark the fourth anniversary of a coup by marching to Government House, one of the largest acts of dissent since the army grabbed power.

A German court yesterday rejected a second request from prosecutors to put deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont behind bars pending a decision on his extradition to Spain.

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar died yesterday after jumping from a bus on a remote Papua New Guinea island, almost five years after he was sent there by Australia, officials said.

A young Turin-based artist has spent months sculpting a life-size Fiat 500 car out of a 15-tonne block of white Carrara marble in a work he sees as a critique of today's consumerist, throw-away society.

Malaysia is saddled with over 1 trillion ringgit ($251.70 billion) in debt, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday, blaming the previous government led by former protege Najib Razak who now faces domestic graft investigations.

The US government's aid chief urged Myanmar on Sunday to take "concrete steps" to guarantee the rights of Rohingya Muslims and to show sincerity in that endeavour in order to encourage hundreds of thousands who have fled the country to return.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft of the Government Telephone, Cellular and Internet Policy-2018 raising the mobile phone allowance for ministers and secretaries to Tk 75,000 from Tk 15,000.

The three-member committee formed by the Election Commission begins its investigation today to identify offenders and officials responsible for voting irregularities that led to suspension of voting at three polling stations in Khulna City Corporation (KCC) polls.

The Bangladesh Railway would begin advance tickets sale from June 2 to ensure hassle-free journey for the Eid-ul-Fitr holidaymakers.

Seven years into its independence, the youngest country in the world still remains one of the most violent.

Three labourers, including a woman, were killed in a landslide while cutting a hill to dig a drain in Ghumdhum area of Naikhongchhari upazila yesterday.

Indian police used laxatives for several days to retrieve 106 cocaine capsules worth some $900,000 from the stomach of a Brazilian woman who tried to smuggle them into the country, officials said Monday.