Two top US diplomats delivered gripping testimony Wednesday about Donald Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival Joe Biden, as the impeachment inquiry into the president shifted into a new phase of high-stakes televised hearings.

The UK government has written to EU chief Ursula von der Leyen to say it will not nominate a British member to her top team before its December 12 election.

Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates are expected to sign three agreements during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Dubai visit from November 16 to November 19.

A Rohingya man, accused in several criminal cases, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf’s Shalbagan area early yesterday.

Migrant workers who were deported from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks had been staying in the Gulf country illegally, Golam Moshi, Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said yesterday.

The High Court yesterday declared that the permission given for importing, beaching and scrapping of radiation-contaminated vessel MT Producer was illegal.

Agitating Buet students yesterday said they would not to return to classes until the authorities met their three-point demand, including expulsion of the charge-sheeted accused in Abrar Fahad murder case.

Thousands of folk music aficionados thronged Dhaka’s Army Stadium yesterday, as the fifth edition of the Dhaka International Folk Festival (DIFF) 2019 was inaugurated.

Editors of The Daily Star and the Prothom Alo, along with the owning companies of the national dailies and their printer, were recognised as the top taxpayers in the journalist and media categories for the fourth straight year yesterday.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has permanently “postponed” the production, distribution, sale and export of heartburn drug ranitidine after detecting carcinogenic ingredients in its raw materials.

Three days after the tragic rail accident in Brahmanbaria, a Rangpur-bound passenger train derailed in Ullapara of Sirajganj yesterday noon.

Demanding the immediate removal of Jahangirnagar University (JU) vice-chancellor, protesters yesterday issued an eight-day ultimatum to open all dormitories for a safe educational environment.

Border Guard Bangladesh detained two men and a woman with gold bars weighing about 3.5 kg in separate drives in Benapole yesterday.

A couple yesterday confessed to their involvement in the murder of a woman 30 years ago.

Saudi authorities have distanced themselves from an official video that sparked controversy after it branded feminism, homosexuality and atheism as extremist ideas.

A Chinese scientist pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing next-generation battery technology from the American petroleum company where he worked, the Department of Justice said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it had prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time, hailing a “critical step” towards its licensing, access and roll-out in countries most at risk of outbreaks.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Tuesday to US President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program which protected nearly 700,000 young immigrants known as “Dreamers” from deportation.

Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief has gone missing in Spain just days after a court approved a request for his extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges, police said yesterday.

Hate crimes reported to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation fell slightly in 2018 from the previous year, according to an annual report released by the FBI on Tuesday.