Although Rajuk officials had no engineering plan to knock down the much-talked about BGMEA building on the capital's Begunbari canal, they went to the site yesterday heavily equipped with demolition machinery.

After an eight-and-a-half year legal battle culminating in a victory for Rajuk, the capital development officials yesterday went to demolish the illegal 15-storey BGMEA building in a move which lacked coordination and was mired in confusion.

A Chattogram court yesterday framed charges against former Deputy Commissioner of Cox's Bazar Ruhul Amin and 35 others on charges

The Election Commission has decided to decentralise a number of services related to National Identity (NID) cards from January next year to reduce hassles of the citizens across the country.

Four Bangladeshi fishermen were kidnapped allegedly by Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar from the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

The High Court yesterday did not allow a religious organisation to file a petition seeking to observe the holy Shab-e-barat on an earlier date.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin yesterday began a series of meetings with representatives of political parties voted into parliament in last week's elections ahead of choosing who will form the next government.

Toppled Malaysian leader Najib Razak returned to court for the second day of his high-profile corruption trial yesterday, with the former premier accused of plundering large sums from scandal-hit state fund 1MDB.

Police have detained 17 more suspects connected to a chemical blast in eastern China last month which killed 78 and left hundreds injured, local authorities said yesterday.

A young Belgian man arrested at the weekend has been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group, Belgian federal prosecutors said yesterday.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant yesterday began removing atomic fuel from inside a building housing one of the reactors that melted down in 2011.

Popular singer Subir Nandi was put on life support at the capital's Combined Military Hospi-tal after he suffered a heart attack.

Police arrested four people in connection with physically assaulting a contractor whose appeal for justice in a Facebook post went viral following the torture in Gulshan area on April 10.

The world's largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market.

Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno on Sunday defended his decision to overturn Julian Assange's asylum status, claiming in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the WikiLeaks founder had tried to set up a "centre for spying" in Ecuador's London embassy.

A local BNP leader was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of unidentified miscreants in Upashahar area of Bogura town on Sunday night.

An elderly farmer was beaten to death allegedly over a debt of only Tk 100 in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday.

The once impressive structure of Hemnagar Zamindar Bari in Tangail's Gopalpur upazila is falling apart due to lack of proper maintenance.

Workers of state-owned jute mills in different districts enforced a 96-hour work abstention since 8:00am yesterday to press home their nine-point demand, which includes payment of outstanding wages.

A colossal fire swept through the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris yesterday, causing a spire to collapse and threatening to destroy the entire masterpiece and its precious artworks.