Iraqi politicians and their regional allies gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss how to resolve two months of protests that brought down the government, as violence hit southern cities.

North Korean media yesterday published fresh pictures of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on a sacred mountain, imagery that experts say is heavy with symbolism and may indicate a policy announcement.

Relief materials, distributed among Rohingya refugees at Cox’s Bazar camps, were found being sold in Bandarbazar area of Sylhet city.

Buet and Jahangirnagar University are soon going to resume academic activities after remaining shut down for months due to student protests.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday approved the charge sheet in a graft case against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others.

A banker has been sued for sexually assaulting three minor girls in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila.

The China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) doesn’t support free and open Indo-Pacific region or ensure protection of the nations’ sovereignty and international law, a top US defense official has said.

Even 22 years after the signing of the CHT peace accord, indigenous people in the Chattogram Hill Tracts still have to demand its full implementation.

Bangladesh is seventh among the 10 countries worst hit by extreme weather events, says a global climate report.

India’s cabinet yesterday approved a bill to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries -- the first time that the country is seeking to grant nationality on the basis of religion.

The skies of Bangladesh were freed on the third day of the relentless war. Almost all of the Pakistani aircrafts were destroyed or distressed. Indian fighter jets bombed Pakistani bases all day long, stopping activities at the airports.

A woman and her housemaid were found murdered in a flat in the city’s Mirpur area yesterday afternoon.

Iran yesterday rejected as “utter lies” unofficial casualty figures given for street violence that erupted last month during demonstrations against a shock decision to hike fuel prices.

Iraqi politicians and their regional allies gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss a way out of two months of protests that brought down the government, as violence hit shrine cities.

The World Health Organisation yesterday warned of a “slide back” in global efforts to eliminate measles, as the death toll from an outbreak that has killed dozens of children in Samoa continued to climb.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur early yesterday.

A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed in a road accident in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The Buet authorities will expel students if he or she is found involved in ragging that leads to death, serious “bodily harm”, any form of disability, permanent mental imbalance or trauma, and disruption of academic life of any fellow student.

Production at nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt came to a halt as workers started a 24-hour work abstention yesterday morning to press home their 11-point demand.

No one except Bangladeshis would be allowed to enter the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said about recent “trespassing” of people from India.