Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday swept to a resounding victory in a snap election and immediately vowed to "deal firmly" with threats from North Korea that dominated the campaign.

Village arbitration allowed an influential youth to get away with the allegation of attempting to rape a madrasa girl in Pachashi of Gouripur upazila.

A personal letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic sold at auction on Saturday for 126,000 pounds ($166,000), a record price for correspondence from the doomed liner.

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested yesterday to urge Myanmar's government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

US President Donald Trump defended his regular use of social media, especially Twitter, and said he may not have won the White House without it.

A roadside bomb killed at least seven people yesterday - mostly women farmers - in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by Islamist insurgents who have defied public protests to end years of violence, residents and the army said.

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said yesterday the government will continue to phase out nuclear-generated electricity, following a public opinion survey that dealt a blow to his plans to do so.

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said the waterlogging situation in Dhaka was better than that of mega cities like Kolkata and Mumbai.

Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday praised opposition Jatiya Party for its “active and constructive” role in the present parliament.

Dhaka proposed India new regional connectivity initiatives at the fourth meeting of India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) yesterday.

Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujon) yesterday slammed a political party for proposing the Election Commission to cancel the provision of affidavit submission by candidates ahead of polls.

Dhaka University authorities have been denying allegations that its admission test questions had been leaked.

Long tailbacks and incessant rain yesterday caused untold sufferings to thousands of people travelling on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.

A few Bangladeshi workers are feared to be among those killed yesterday in a landslide at a construction site in northern Malaysian state of Penang.

In a surprising move, Dhaka University authorities have asked all the TSC-based socio-cultural organisations to finish their activities by 8:00pm.

The only previous occasion on which Bangladesh were getting ready to play an ODI at the Buffalo Park in East London, in November 2008,

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives in Dhaka this afternoon to join the Bangladesh- India Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting and discuss bilateral relations with top Bangladesh officials.

Father Marino Rigon, whose lifetime love affair with Bangladesh began with a trip from Italy in 1953, dedicated his life to working for the Bangladeshi people.

People in Bangladesh are likely to experience slow internet in the next three to four days due to maintenance work on a primary submarine cable in the Bay of Bengal.

At least 52 Egyptian police officers were killed in an ambush by Islamist fighters near the Bahariya oasis in the country's Western Desert, security and medical sources said yesterday, in a rare flare-up outside the Sinai Peninsula.