Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jashore industrial belt yesterday demonstrated to press home their 11-point demand, including payment of their dues and implementation of their new wage board.

The government has decided to phase out the use of bricks by 2025 in all its construction works to reduce the air pollution as brick kilns are one of the major sources of air pollution in Bangladesh.

Recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia “will take responsibilities” of the Bangladeshi female migrant workers as long as they remain employed in the Gulf country, as per a decision taken at a joint technical committee meeting recently.

A senior Iranian official has suggested in an interview with AFP that authorities may be more open than in the past in approving candidates for a looming parliamentary election.

A Dhaka Medical College Hospital staff was beaten to death allegedly by a schoolboy yesterday after the victim complained to the accused’s family about his smoking, said police.

Four men who raped a 26-year-old woman before strangling and setting her on fire in Indian state of Hyderabad on Wednesday night planned the gruesome assault in the evening when they saw her park her scooter near a toll booth, police documents accessed by NDTV have said.

The govern-ment is relentlessly spreading propaganda at home and abroad, saying that it has implemented 48 of the 72 clauses of Chattogram Hill Tracts Peace Accord, alleged Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity President Jyotirindra Bodhipriyo Larma yesterday.

Feni University, a privately owned institution in the district’s Sadar upazila, has been filling up a century-old waterbody disregarding several notices from Department of Environment.

Tens of thousands rallied in Florence in Italy on Saturday against the far-right League party, the latest in a series of demonstrations called by the new, youth-driven “Sardine Movement”.

Dozens of people in protest-swept Lebanon staged a candlelit vigil outside Iraq’s embassy on Saturday to denounce the excessive use of force against demonstrators there.

The High Court yesterday observed that the allegation against then OC of Rajshahi’s Puthia Police Station Shakil Uddin Ahamed of manipulating the FIR in labour leader Nurul Islam murder case is undoubtedly grave.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Madrid yesterday to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25).

Namibian president Hage Geingob on Saturday won the country’s presidential elections with a diminished majority of 56.3 percent, the worst performance of any ruling party candidate for nearly 30 years.

Angela Merkel faces a rocky political road ahead as she battles to hang on until 2021 as German chancellor, after her junior coalition partner SPD elected a left-leaning leadership duo.

Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will step down on January 18, party sources told AFP Saturday, following mounting criticism of his response to the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Several hundred mostly women protesters rallied in the Tunisian capital on Saturday against violence targeting women, urging authorities to act to ensure their rights.

Ruling Awami League has named Sheikh Bazlur Rahman and SM Mannan Kochi as the president and general secretary, respectively, of its Dhaka north unit for the next three years.

Two suspected criminals were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Satkhira town early yesterday, hours after they were arrested in a mugging case.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday vowed to review Britain’s sentencing system after a convicted terrorist released early from prison was suspected of stabbing two people to death in an attack around London Bridge.

A Dhaka court is set to deliver its verdict today in the case filed over a road accident that killed two college students in the capital sparking an unprecedented road safety movement in the country.