North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in the Russian city of Vladivostok for a summit he is likely to use to seek support from President Vladimir Putin while Pyongyang’s nuclear talks with Washington are in limbo.

The High Court directs the police administration to take appropriate departmental action against the investigation officer of a case filed under the Anti-terrorism Act in Bogura for submitting its charge sheet without taking permission from the government.

Raising alarm at the growing incidents of rape in the country, Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain urges people to forge a united movement to protect women's rights and establish the rule of law.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 will deliver verdict any day in a case filed over wartime crimes including the abduction and killing of philanthropist Ranada Prasad Shaha and his son in 1971.

A newborn baby is found at Lawachara forest in Kamalganj Upazila of Moulvibazar.

Actor Saleh Ahmed passes away at the age of 83.

Israel says it would name a new community on the Golan Heights after US President Donald Trump as an expression of gratitude for his recognition of its claim of sovereignty over the strategic plateau.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the police chief and defence secretary to quit following the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 359 people, two sources close to the president have said.

Chilling CCTV footage has emerged showing a suicide bomber calmly patting a child on the head and shoulder moments before he walked into a packed Sri Lankan church, unleashing carnage.

The scale and sophistication of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State, the US ambassador says as the death toll jumped to 359.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

Standing under a black flag of the Islamic State, eight men declare their loyalty to the group's leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. "We pledge allegiance ... and to obey him on everything either in easy or difficult conditions," they say, before praising Allah.

Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF) is to hold the 8th iteration of its flagship initiative “BBF Seminar 2019” on April 27, the day of its 12 year anniversary.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Awami League leader and her cousin Sheikh Selim's residence at Banani to console family members over Selim's grandson's death in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday blasts.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition at the High Court seeking to mandate a doctor’s prescription for purchase of antibiotics from pharmacies.

Three people die after they fell off the roofs of running trains at Dhirasram Rail Station in Gazipur city.

A Dhaka court sentences businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun to seven-year rigorous imprisonment in a money laundering case.

Students of Barishal University start a hunger strike demanding the resignation of their Vice Chancellor Dr SM Imamul Haque.

Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, who was killed in the series blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, has been laid to rest in Dhaka.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 says the global community should recognise the genocide happened in Bangladesh during the Liberation War so that such crimes do not recur.