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”.

The High Court yesterday issued five separate rules asking the government to explain within two weeks why three owners of Apan Jewellers -- Dildar Ahmed, Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed -- should not be granted bail in five money laundering cases.

Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwawill be sworn in as president tomorrow, marking a new era for the country ruled by Robert Mugabe from independence nearly four decades ago until his swift downfall this week.

The World Bank has offered financial assistance to Bangladesh to help Rohingya refugees and their host community in Cox's Bazar where the extreme poverty rate is more than 40 percent.

The Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people in New York in the name of the Islamic State group has been slapped with murder charges, US prosecutors said Tuesday.

The family of Sohagi Jahan Tonu has once again sought justice as they were quizzed at the CID headquarters in the capital yesterday.

Feni Awami League leaders in a press conference yesterday rejected the allegations against lawmaker Nizam Hazari of playing a key role in the attack on Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the district.

Unidentified criminals killed a local woman leader of Awami League in Nabinagar upazila of Bahmanbaria last night.

Pope Francis will meet Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Dhaka when he visits the Bangladeshi capital next week, a Vatican spokesman said yesterday.

The river saving taskforce of the government has asked Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to free its 13 canals from illegal occupants.

The organic banana orchards of Bandarban are every farmer's dreams. They yield well and churn good profits. Not to mention, these highly nutritious fruits are sweet, delectable and loved by children and adults alike.

Academics from home and abroad, who had worked with missing North South University (NSU) teacher Mubashar Hasan, have urged the prime minister to take steps to find him.

A housewife was allegedly murdered by her husband and in-laws for dowry at Mirzapur upazila on Tuesday night.

A UN tribunal yesterday convicted former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia's war and sentenced him to life in prison.

Six Gaibandha men including a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker have been given capital punishment for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

Home may be where the heart is, but in Hong Kong it comes at a record price -- more than $71 million for a single apartment.

Two policemen and a woman were arrested yesterday for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a person and realising ransom for his release.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday rejected allegations by a rights group that troops engaged in looting during the bloody battle against Islamic State followers in the southern city of Marawi.

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was sentenced to two years in prison for "inciting subversion" on Tuesday, the latest jailing in an intensifying crackdown on rights defenders and activists.

President Donald Trump will dissolve his charitable foundation -- which acknowledged breaking federal rules on "self-dealing" last year -- once an investigation concludes, US media reported Monday.