The Bangalee people had a central role in the effort to create Pakistan, but Pakistan did not treat them well and separated them from Pakistan, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said yesterday, Dawn reports.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the police to gain the trust and confidence of people as this is very important for them.

British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday sought to complete a government shake-up without further blunders after a first day

The Rapid Action Battalion detained three men with huge explosives at Kanaighat upazila on Sunday night.

Five Muslim rebels and a soldier were killed during a weekend ground and air assault by Philippines security forces on militants supportive of the Islamic State group in a restive southern region, the military said yesterday.

German police have arrested a former member of the Bosnian Serb forces who is suspected of taking part in the detention and killing of Muslim civilians during Bosnia's 1990s war, prosecutors in Sarajevo said yesterday.

Asylum claims in France hit a record 100,000 last year, official figures showed yesterday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government draws up hotly-debated new legislation on immigration.

Air strikes by regime and Russian aircraft on rebel positions in the northwestern province of Idlib killed at least 21 civilians, including eight children, a monitor said yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found that businessman Saiful Haque was involved in the laundering of around Tk 165 crore from AB Bank between 2013 and 2014.

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday called an indefinite strike at Murari Chand (MC) College and Sylhet Government College protesting the murder of its activist Tanim Khan.

As many as 28 children are murdered and 49 raped in the country every month, according to a report by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar

Trial of 14 more cases, including three graft cases, filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be held at the court set up in Government Madrasah-E-Alia in the city's Bakshibazar area.

The government will lift ban on hilsa export soon, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Narayon Chandra Chanda said yesterday.

The government yesterday asked the authorities of all types of coaching centres to keep those closed from three days before the beginning of upcoming SSC and its equivalent examinations until the end of the tests.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance would nominate a single mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) by-polls.

The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the mayoral by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today. It has already fixed February 26 as the polling day.

A critically sick baby abducted by his father was found late Saturday after the hospital treating him launched an urgent appeal, informed sources said.

Bangladesh will soon emerge as a developed country as it has already secured a dignified position in the global arena through economic, commercial and social advancement, President Abdul Hamid said yesterday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned by a spike in tensions in a buffer zone in disputed Western Sahara, his spokesman said Saturday.

More than 200 African migrants stormed over a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Saturday, officials said, leaving some of them and a police officer injured.