President Abdul Hamid yesterday visited Balat village in Meghalaya, where he stayed during the Liberation War, and recalled memories of those days.

State-owned banks and Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) would buy 60 percent shares in Farmers Bank, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said last night.

Danish inventor Peter Madsen on Thursday denied murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his self-built submarine last year as his highly-anticipated trial opened in Copenhagen.

The UN refugee agency chief in Bangladesh has called for addressing the conflicts that trigger refugee crisis and create heavy burdens on the host countries.

Detectives arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in possession of 50,000 yaba tablets yesterday, police said.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of a prestigious human rights award, accusing her of doing little to halt the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.

Taqi's killers could not be brought to justice even after five years because of the culture of impunity prevailing in the country, noted personalities said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday fixed Sunday for passing necessary orders regarding the bail petition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case over which she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

Foyzur Rahman, who attacked Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal on March 3, stepped into militancy listening to Jashimuddin Rahmani's sermons and reading contents of “Dawahilallah”, said investigators yesterday.

Spain marked International Women's Day yesterday with an unprecedented strike in defence of their rights that saw hundreds of trains cancelled and countless protests scheduled throughout the day.

Barisal police arrested three persons suspected of taking money from candidates of the constable recruiting exams with promises of the job.

Posing as an aspirant tenant, a man hit a landlady in her head with something hard and stabbed her to death and looted her gold ornaments in the capital's Paschim Nakhal Para yesterday.

Upscale neighbourhoods in Banani, Bashundhara, Uttara, Dhanmondi, Mohakhali DOHS, and Mintoo Road are major breeding grounds of dengue and chikungunya spreading Aedes mosquitos, found a survey.

The elder brother of Foyzur Rahman fled with Foyzur's mobile phone and tab soon after the attack on Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal was carried out, counterterrorism officials said.

Skipper Mahmudullah Riyad, Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, interim head coach Courtney Walsh and team manager Khaled Mahmud were seen engaged in a meeting after Bangladesh's training session at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on the eve of their first Nidahas Trophy match against India today.

His job was to ensure proper distribution of the compensation meant for land acquisition but he took it as an opportunity to make money.

A number of women alleged that they had been sexually harassed by groups of men on crowded streets of Dhaka yesterday.

Three workers were killed and five others injured as the roof of an under-construction refuelling station caved in at Khanpukur village in Sadar upazila yesterday afternoon.

More than 20 African migrants were missing and feared drowned Tuesday after scores of people seeking to reach Italy were rescued from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.

Casualties linked to militancy and violence have dropped in Pakistan for the third consecutive year, with 21 percent fewer fatalities in 2017 than in the previous year, a security think-tank says.