Illegal sand lifters allegedly assaulted an assistant commissioner (land) and three others in Rajshahi's Bagha upazila, when they went for an inspection in Harirampur area near the Padma yesterday.

Poles will gather on Saturday in the Baltic port city of Gdansk for the funeral of murdered liberal mayor Pawel Adamowicz, whose public stabbing has raised questions about hate speech in politics in the country.

The leaders of Japan and Russia hold crunch summit talks on Tuesday, with the two countries locked in an undiplomatic war of words over a set of disputed islands.

Burkina Faso's government and Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba stood down on Friday, according to a statement released by the country's president.

About 400 indigenous people of Tripura Palli, a remote village in Chattogram, were elated to have finally gotten electricity in their homes, 47 years after Bangladesh gained independence.

A woman and her eight-year-old niece were killed and her sister was critically injured after unidentified criminals set their bed on fire while they were asleep on Friday night in Bhola's Lalmohan upazila.

The Chattogram Custom House (CCH) has evidence that the seven Clearing and Forwarding agents, who have recently been found to be “involved” in a forgery, engaged in counterfeit activities for a total of 299 times between October 2013 and December 2018, NBR sources said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) of India has been trying to force 31 Rohingyas into Bangladesh since Friday evening through Kaziatali Border in Brahmanbaria's Kasba upazila.

Angry Bangladeshi workers vandalised the Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait and beat up a senior diplomat and several other employees demanding salary arrears and work permit from their local employers on Thursday.

Two senior BNP leaders yesterday called for bringing changes in the party leadership through a national council.

Accusing the ruling party of “hijacking” people's voting rights, Gano Forum President and Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday warned that those involved in it would not be spared.

Colombia's government declared three days of mourning after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy and 68 were wounded on Thursday-- the worst such incident in the city in 16 years.

Indian Border Security Force yesterday shot dead a Bangladeshi national inside their territory along the Dharmagar border in Thakurgaon's Ranisankail upazila.

Scores of Rohingyas detainees inside a Saudi detention centre have begun a hunger strike to stop the Gulf kingdom from deporting them to Bangladesh, reports Middle East Eye, a news outlet published from UK.

A previously postponed vitamin A capsules distribution campaign is likely to be held next week, health ministry officials said.

A Seoul court yesterday dismissed a Japanese machinery maker's appeal against an order that it pay 17 South Korean women 100 million won ($89,000) each for forced wartime labour, the latest in a series of rulings raising tensions between the neighbours.

Malaysia's finance minister said yesterday an apology from Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal was not enough, and demanded the Wall Street giant pay $7.5 billion compensation.

Cambodia and Myanmar have railed at the European Commission for resuming tariffs on millions of dollars of rice, with one ministry describing the move as a "weapon" against already poor farmers.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Pacific charm offensive went off course yesterday when he was forced to defend Fiji's accusations of inaction over climate change.

Turkey yesterday insisted Syrian regime forces should not be allowed in Manbij as US troops withdraw, as proposed by a US-backed Kurdish militia viewed as terrorists by Ankara.