Indonesia is probing vote-rigging claims after the discovery of thousands of stray election ballots in neighbouring Malaysia, officials said, as the opposition threatens to challenge next week's poll results over separate voter list irregularities.

US President Donald Trump's controversial ban on transgender Americans in the military comes into force yesterday following a protracted legal battle.

The White House pushed immigration authorities to release illegal migrants onto the streets of so-called "sanctuary cities" to retaliate against US President Donald Trump's political enemies, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

The Dutch sweets giant behind the Mentos and Alpenliebe brands has pledged to investigate after its workers in Bangladesh said they were attacked, just weeks after setting up a union.

Climbers with pressing needs on Mount Everest will soon find an "eco-friendly" toilet at a Chinese campsite 7,028 metres (23,058 feet) above sea level in an ongoing campaign to deal with the peak's waste problem.

Detectives arrested three men with fake notes of Tk 20 lakh and 300-gram heroin in the capital's Paltan area on Thursday.

A student of Jagannath University has been placed on a two-day remand in police custody in a case filed under Digital Security Act over a Facebook post.

A three-day-long colourful Biju festival of the Chattogram Hill Tracts began in the district yesterday.

At least 20 people were killed and 48 wounded yesterday by a powerful suicide blast apparently targeting the Shia Hazara ethnic minority at a crowded fruit market in Pakistan's Quetta city, officials said.

A Joypurhat court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a seven-year-old physically challenged girl in the district's Kalai upazila.

A Thakurgaon court yesterday dismissed the complaints lodged by family members of the three villagers killed in a BGB firing in Haripur upazila's Baharampur village in the district on February 12.

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was yesterday overthrown and arrested in a coup by the armed forces.

Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

The US Department of State has introduced a new risk indicator for 35 countries, including Bangladesh, to communicate more clearly to American citizens the “risk of kidnapping and hostage taking” by criminal and terrorist actors around the world.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher at Tafsirul Quran International Madrasa in Panchabati of Fatullah over allegations of raping a boy.

A 35-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital in Noakhali town yesterday after allegedly being gang-raped.

A US warship laden with hi-tech fighter planes took centre stage at key war games in the Philippines yesterday, brandishing military might as fresh tensions bubble in the contentious South China Sea.

The headteacher of a government primary school in Dagonbhuiyan of Feni yesterday told a court that he had raped a class-V student multiple times over the last couple of months.

The High Court would interfere if it finds negligence into the probe of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against six members of banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam in a case filed over writer-blogger Avijit Roy murder on February 26, 2015.