Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the importance of good governance for the country’s development.

China’s military recently carried out air and naval drills along its southeast coast, the Defence Ministry said yesterday, following the latest arms sales from the United States to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday put European military cooperation at the heart of the Bastille Day parade at a time of growing tensions with the United States.

The trials for two long running cases against former military dictator Hussain Mohammad Ershad, who died yesterday, still remain pending.

A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northwest Australia yesterday, shaking buildings over a wide area but causing no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Sudanese protesters lit candles and released balloons in Khartoum as thousands rallied across the country to mourn dozens killed last month in a brutal raid on a protest camp, AFP correspondents reported.

His two artworks have become integral and defining elements of the country’s political history. The first is an illustration of a monstrous Yahya Khan, the Pakistani ruler who ordered genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, and the second is a sketch mocking military dictator HM Ershad.

A teenage madrasa boy was held yesterday on charge of raping a vertically challenged girl in Nalchity upazila of Jhalakathi.

Along with his four family members and some cattle, 75-year-old Kazim Uddin had to spend the past two days on a small boat as their home was flooded.

A man and his wife have embezzled over Tk 7.31 crore from job aspirants with their 12 fraud educational institutions in Bogura and Rangpur.

Russia launched a space telescope Saturday from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in a joint mission with Germany intended to map X-rays across the sky and replace a project lost in January.

A leader of the ruling Awami League was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Amid a controversy over laboratory test reports on milk, the High Court yesterday directed Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution to test pasteurised milk, produced by 14 companies, at four laboratories within a week.

Abdul Halim Dulal Sharif, father of slain Rifat Sharif, yesterday de-manded the immediate arrest of his daughter-in-law Aysha Siddika Minni alleging that she had a hand in the murder.

Three Bangladeshis, including a class-IV student, were picked up allegedly by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) from the Naf river near Teknaf Upazila on Friday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the top government officials to keep more vigil on corruption so that this menace does not affect the country’s development in any way.

Twenty-six people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour terror attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on a popular hotel that ended early yesterday in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo.

A grenade launcher fired at the building of a Ukrainian television channel on Saturday after it announced plans to air a controversial documentary featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The head of Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that US ally Israel would not be “neutral” if a war broke out between the United States and Iran.

Fourteen civilians, including six children and infants, were killed yesterday in air strikes in northwest Syria, targeted for months now by deadly regime and Russian bombardment, a monitor said.