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Germany will have no choice but to restrict its economic ties with Turkey to pressure its NATO partner into releasing German citizens it imprisoned on political grounds, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in remarks published yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Abu Dhabi yesterday en route to New York to attend the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Every seventh person in Bangladesh is an undernourished one who cannot acquire enough food to meet dietary energy requirements.

The Committee to Protect Journalists yesterday asked Bangladesh to immediately release two Myanmar journalists arrested by police on September 7, and drop all charges against them.

North Korea yesterday said it was seeking military "equilibrium" with the United States as leader Kim Jong-Un vowed to complete Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

India's National Human Rights Commission has said it will oppose the move to deport Rohingya refugees staying illegally in the country when the Indian government submits its affidavit on the issue to the Supreme Court tomorrow.

The local government ministry has suspended the mayor of Dinajpur Municipality on allegations of corruption, officials at the municipality said yesterday.

People of remote chars in Fulchhari upazila are practicing shooting arrows in the wake of frequent attacks by robbers on villages along the Jamuna river basin.

Two children and a woman were killed in a stampede for aid near a Bangladesh refugee camp, UN agencies said yesterday amid widespread fights among Rohingyas for food and clothing thrown from relief trucks, reports AFP.

The government has taken a set of decisions, including one to set up 14,000 additional shelters on some 2,000 acres of land near

A home-made bomb on a packed rush-hour commuter train in London engulfed a carriage in flames and injured 22 people yesterday

Global astronomers bid farewell yesterday to Nasa's famed Cassini spacecraft, which launched 20 years ago to circle Saturn and

The Police Headquarters has sought a special allowance, equivalent to the monthly basic salary, for the members of SWAT team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit and bomb disposal units of Rab and CTTC, considering their risks they face during anti-militancy drives.

Victims of a fire at an Islamic school in the Malaysian capital that killed 23 boys and teachers were buried yesterday, as hundreds of

Eminent naturalist Prof Dwijen Sharma passed away at a city hospital yesterday. He was 88.

A woman suffered burn injuries as her husband allegedly threw acid in the port city's Bahaddarhat on Thursday over family feuds.

Thousands of passengers to and from 19 southwestern districts are severely suffering at Paturia and Daulatdia ferry terminals as

Six more eminent global citizens yesterday expressed solidarity with the open letter that 12 Nobel laureates and 15 global personalities sent to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for its immediate intervention to end the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

The central bank has ordered mobile financial service provider bKash to suspend activities of 2,887 agents for breaching money