The Department of Immigration and Passports will be reorganised soon, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

Three men were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Feni and Dhaka early yesterday.

A man has been arrested in Narsingdi on charge of raping a hearing-impaired woman.

Police in the last two days arrested two people on charge of attempting to kill a schoolgirl by setting her on fire in Rajbari’s Sadar upazila.

A gun battle between supporters of India’s ruling right-wing party and a regional rival has killed four people in West Bengal, police said yesterday, as violence raged in the tinderbox state.

Rangpur police authorities allowed former Sonagazi officer-in-charge Moazzem Hossain to leave for the capital two days after a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against him on May 27.

People leaving Chattogram or heading towards the city were stuck in long tailbacks for several hours after fishermen blocked Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda upazila yesterday, demanding the lifting of an ongoing ban on fishing at sea.

A US army vehicle was damaged in a mine explosion in western Niger, but there were no fatalities, and the US military was investigating whether the incident was hostile, embassy and local security forces said yesterday.

Iran’s supreme leader pardoned hundreds of prisoners on the occasion of the end of Ramadan, but a Lebanese national who Beirut expected to be released was not among them, authorities said yesterday.

Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, said yesterday he would withhold an already agreed 39-billion-pound ($49.6 billion) Brexit payment until the European Union gives Britain better withdrawal terms.

Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman, who is facing a probe by the Anti-Corruption Commission over allegation of amassing wealth illegally, has alleged that an enquiry officer took Tk 40 lakh as bribe with the false promise of exonerating him of all charges.

The Independent Greeks party, previously in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ coalition government, said yesterday it will not run in an upcoming general election because of its poor showing in EU parliamentary polls.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Liberia’s capital Monrovia Friday to protest rising prices and corruption, posing a key political test for President George Weah.

A Kushtia court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of torturing a 13-year-old differently abled boy.

A police constable allegedly stabbed his mother-in-law to death and wounded his wife and brother-in-law in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila yesterday.

A teenage girl was set on fire by unidentified assailants on Thursday in Rajbari.

Fierce clashes between Russia-backed government forces and jihadists have killed more than 100 combatants in northwestern Syria in the past 24 hours, a war monitor said on Friday.

British police said they had arrested four teenagers on Friday after a gang of males beat up a lesbian couple who refused to kiss for them on a London night bus.

A Nigerian radio and television station owned by an opposition politician resumed broadcasting yesterday after a court order temporarily overturned a ban imposed for alleged “inflammatory” content and unpaid licence fees.

Police yesterday arrested two youths over the alleged gang-rape of a woman in Hijla upazila of Barishal.