The Paris climate summit next week offers a chance for concrete advances in the fight against global warming, even without the support of President Donald Trump, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith said on Saturday he wanted to “wipe out” a Philippines bank that was used to channel $81 million stolen from the Bangladeshi central bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year.

Obaidur Rahman Khan, executive director of Transcom Group, died in his Gulshan home in the capital at 10:30pm on Saturday.

The Election Commission will decide within a day or two when the by-polls to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation will be held, acting secretary of the commission Helaluddin Ahmed said yesterday.

The NRB Commercial Bank yesterday restructured its board of directors to help restore corporate governance and depositors' confidence in it.

Police yesterday filed two cases against around 200 people on charge of assaulting six law enforcers during a drive to arrest a trader at Fortune Shopping Mall in the city's Mouchak area on Saturday night.

A leftist alliance between Nepal's former Maoist rebels and moderate communists appeared to be heading for a victory in elections aimed at completing a transition to democracy after the abolition of the monarchy and end to civil war.

Indian Border Security Force shot dead two Bangladeshi cattle "smugglers" along Diar Manik Char border in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi early yesterday.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday.

The president and the prime minister begin their three-day separate overseas tour today. They will visit Turkey and France respectively to attend a special summit of Islamic leaders over the Jerusalem issue and a planet summit to fight against climate change.

Moulvibazar police has announced a Tk 50,000 bounty on each of the five suspects in the murder of two students at Moulvibazar Government High School Thursday evening.

New protests flared in the Middle East and elsewhere yesterday over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has drawn global condemnation and sparked days of unrest in the Palestinian territories.

Subedar Singh bears the scars of India's painful reliance on dirty power and its struggle to pay for the costly transition to the brave new world of solar and renewable electricity.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday again reiterated her government's commitment to provide electricity to every house by producing electricity from different sources.

A synagogue in Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg was attacked in a failed arson attempt late Saturday, police said.

From a luxury Manhattan apartment, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui is plotting a "change of the regime" in Beijing and developing a new media platform with the aim of introducing democracy in the world's most populous country.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro was expecting few surprises in yesterday's municipal elections, amid an opposition boycott and voter enthusiasm undercut by economic crisis.

Traders of Fortune Shopping Mall at Mouchak intersection in the capital beat up six policemen who went there to detain a trader.

A general diary has been filed in Manikganj mentioning that Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman made “derogatory comments on

Poet and writer Farhad Mazhar yesterday insisted he was a victim of abduction, rejecting law enforcers' claim that it was a stage-managed drama.