The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that stayed the investigation of the case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act against renowned photographer Shahidul Alam.

At least 224 people were killed and 866 injured in 203 road crashes across the country in 12 days during the Eid holiday rush, a passenger welfare group said yesterday.

At least 13 people, including six of a family, were killed in five road accidents across the country yesterday.

Department of Environment yesterday sealed off a paper mill in Chattogram’s Khulshi area on charge of polluting the Halda, possibly the only breeding ground of natural Carp in South Asia.

Indian authorities reimposed restrictions on movement in major parts of Kashmir’s biggest city, Srinagar, yesterday after violent overnight clashes between residents and police in which dozens were injured, two senior officials and eyewitnesses said.

A Bangladesh Army soldier was shot dead when criminals opened fire on an army patrol team in Rangamati district yesterday, an ISPR press release said.

Bangladesh yesterday asked Independent Commission of Enquiry how it would ensure safety for the Rohingya witnesses whom it wants to question to collect evidence of human rights violations in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

An Afghanistan peace agreement that the US seems close to reaching with the Taliban has prompted worries that President Donald Trump’s desire to quickly withdraw US troops could further plunge the country into civil war.

A volunteer ambulance driver was killed in Myanmar’s remote northeast as clashes between the army and ethnic insurgents escalated over the weekend, state media reported yesterday.

Spain yesterday offered to take in the charity vessel Proactiva Open Arms with more than 100 migrants on board, slamming Italy’s “inconceivable” refusal to allow it to dock.

Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters joined a mass rally in Hong Kong yesterday, filling major thoroughfares in heavy rain in the eleventh week of what have been often violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.

President Donald Trump’s reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China’s drive for an Arctic presence.

A rights activist in Kazakhstan who faced seven years imprisonment over his outspoken opposition to neighbouring China was unexpectedly freed Friday as public and international pressure over his case mounted.

Millions of years after the ancestors of humans evolved to lose their tails, a research team at Japan’s Keio University have built a robotic one they say could help unsteady elderly people keep their balance.

Two Bangladeshis who went to India for treatment were killed in a road accident in Kolkata early yesterday.

Eleven people, including four students, were killed in road crashes in the last two days.

A US appeals court on Friday dealt a setback to the Trump administration attempt to bar almost all asylum applications at the US-Mexico border, but stopped short of applying its decision nationwide.

The condition of the sixth grader, who was gang-raped in Bhola on August 11, deteriorated yesterday.

A last-minute US warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker preparing to leave Gibraltar after weeks of detention cast doubt over its departure yesterday, prolonging a diplomatic spat between Tehran, London and Washington.

Two suspected criminals were beaten to death by a mob near Sondah canal in Pabna’s Santhia upazila early yesterday.