Saudi Arabia sent back another 125 Bangladeshi workers home on Friday night as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrant workers.

With one police jeep in front and another behind, three buses carried 96 arms makers and dealers along with robbers to Kalarmarchhara Union Parishad ground in Maheshkhali so that they surrender before Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.

A primary school teacher was beaten to death by his neighbours over land dispute in Atghoria upazila of Pabna yesterday morning, said family members of the victim.

Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for a political solution to the Rohingya crisis so that the Rohingyas could return to Rakhine State “freely and safely”.

Border Guard Bangladesh detained 22 people when they were entering Bangladesh illegally from India early yesterday in Nischintapur and Mogdaspur areas of Moheshpur upazila.

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) fear that Myanmar may have a “state policy” to attack the Rohingya population in Rakhine state, said ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Friday.

Twenty-two Rohingya Muslims trying to escape one of Myanmar’s camps by boat were arrested after they were forced ashore by their leaking vessel, local police said yesterday.

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment on corruption charges prompted speculation yesterday that the end of his decade-long tenure as ‘King Bibi’ is nigh.

A three-day conference of academicians and presidents of 70 Asian universities begins in Dhaka today with a focus on showcasing the universities’ best practices and entrepreneurial education.

Gamechanger -- is what best describes the debut of Bangla Bond, a taka-denominated debt instrument, on the London Stock Exchange on November 11 for Bangladesh.

Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine was far worse than the behaviour that led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, the head of the congressional impeachment probe said Thursday as he summed up the case for the US president’s removal.

Cox’s Bazar will be one of the most polluted places in the country when the 17 planned coal-fired power plants start operation in the district, predicts a report by two environmentalist organisations.

A 42-old-man died allegedly after his daughter’s stalker kicked him in the chest in Sharothi Mills area of Jashore yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the UK had “facilitated” the return of British orphans whose parents had died in Syria “because it was the right thing to do”.

A group of unidentified miscreants torched a house of indigenous Chakma community in Bandarban Sadar upazila on Thursday night.

After two-and-a-half months of inception, the special taskforce, formed to restrain accidents and bring discipline on the roads, is expected to hold its first meeting tomorrow.

Bangladesh’s resolution entitled “Natural Plant Fibres and Sustainable Development” has been adopted by consensus in the plenary of the second committee of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

The government would procure 6 lakh tonnes of paddy directly from farmers in the current Aman season, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque said yesterday.

Three microbuses with tinted windows and no number plates entered the Cox’s Bazar Police Lines, escorted by four police vans on November 8.

Just before the sunset, a flock of painted storks was spotted on a char of the Padma river in Rajshahi. Experts said the winter visitor -- a colourful bird with an enormous bill, very long legs and of various shades of pink and red -- has arrived early this year. The photo was taken recently.