Two sisters suffered burn injuries after criminals attacked them with acid in Bhola yesterday afternoon.

An Indian college has been banned from conducting examinations after it cut off the sleeves of women candidates for nursing tests to prevent cheating, officials said yesterday.

Human Rights Watch yesterday said the dismissal of thousands of academics by the Turkish government after the 2016 failed coup was undermining academic freedoms and creating a "climate of fear" on campus.

An Australian climber reached the top of Mount Everest yesterday, becoming the fastest person to summit the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents.

Colombia's last active rebel group yesterday declared a five-day ceasefire for the country's presidential election.

Russia is committing "flagrant breaches of international rules", the head of Britain's security service claimed yesterday.

An organising secretary of district Torun League, a pro-Awami League organisation, was killed, and a district Jubo League leader was seriously injured in a bomb attack in Palbari area of Jessore on Sunday night.

Traffic gridlock on the four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong highway largely reduced yesterday after four days of unbearable congestion.

The UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group in Geneva yesterday recommended Bangladesh thoroughly investigate all the incidents of abductions, enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings.

Indian authorities said yesterday at least 86 people have been killed and over 100 injured in a fresh wave of violent sandstorms and thunderstorms that battered vast swathes of the country.

The Supreme Court is set to deliver today the verdict on the two appeals against the High Court bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Nine women were killed and around 25 injured in a stampede when over 30,000 people gathered to collect zakat and essentials provided by an industrial group at a village in Satkania of Chittagong yesterday.

War crimes judges will hold closed-door talks next month to discuss whether to allow the launch of a probe into the forced exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.

Hundreds of French students saw their end-of-term exams suspended yesterday as protesters blocked access to two universities, the latest in months of demonstrations against the government's plans to introduce more selective admission requirements.

British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted yesterday she could be trusted to deliver a good Brexit deal as she tried to mend government rifts over the best way forward.

Pakistani authorities have barred a US diplomat involved in a fatal traffic accident from leaving the country, forcing an American military aircraft flown in for his departure to leave without him, local media reported on Saturday.

North Korea will destroy its nuclear test site later this month, ahead of a summit with the United States, it said Saturday, pledging to blow up its tunnels in front of invited foreign media.

Indian Border Security Force picked up three Bangladeshi cattle traders at Paria border in Thakurgaon's Baliadangi upazila early yesterday.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will celebrate the World Refugee Day 2018 in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on June 20 to raise global awareness for global responsibility for refugees.

A family of six including two young daughters staged suicide bombings at three Indonesian churches during Sunday services, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.