Operatives of an outlawed party shot dead a former member of Dhalarchar Union Parishad in Pabna's Bera upazila last night, police said.

Eminent folk singer and flautist Bari Siddiqui passed away at Square Hospital in Dhaka early yesterday.

The defence ministers of the 41-nation Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) will meet in Riyadh tomorrow to discuss various issues, including ways to establish the alliance as a major bloc to address security challenges and terrorism issues.

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The government will equip the National Security Intelligence (NSI) with a digital tracking system to step up its capacity in tackling criminal activities perpetrated through mobile phones and internet.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through her statement on enforced disappearance in parliament has "admitted that the government is involved", BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said yesterday.

Swapna Akhter, woman affairs secretary of Nabinagar Awami League, was killed by her political rivals because of her popularity, her family has claimed.

The white rumped vulture, or Bangla Shokun, has become extremely rare in the wild, dying out due to feeding on cattle treated with diclofenac, a veterinary pain killer.

Widespread atrocities against Rohingya Muslim women and girls have been orchestrated and perpetrated by Myanmar's military and may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict said Wednesday.

The US labelling of a Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as “ethnic cleansing” is unhelpful and could aggravate the situation, Russia's ambassador to the southeast Asian nation said yesterday, criticising “excessive external intervention”.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rapped his deputy foreign minister for "offensive" remarks in which she said US Jews were too "comfortable" to understand threats to Israel.

Malaysian authorities have arrested a Uighur Muslim man from China who was part of a group who made a dramatic escape from an immigration detention centre in Thailand, police said Thursday.

The EU's bid to deepen ties with six former Soviet states enters its latest round in Brussels on Friday with anxiety about Russian influence running higher than ever in the bloc.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday pleaded not guilty and sought justice while defending herself at court in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Unidentified miscreants hacked a journalist of a local newspaper in Jessore yesterday evening.

A number of online news portals had been running baseless and misleading reports about Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, said the DNCC yesterday.

The idea of Rohingya refugees' return to Rakhine is premature and unthinkable until Myanmar's suffocating "apartheid" system is dismantled, Amnesty International said yesterday.

Shobita Rani has been unemployed most of the last five years despite being hired a couple of times by garment factories in Savar.

The government yesterday suspended an official over the mistakes in question papers of English-version primary terminal examination.