Ziaur Rahman left his Cox's Bazar home in September and went on a religious tour fearing he would be arrested or killed during the anti-narcotics drive of law enforcers.

The telecom regulator yesterday directed all internet service providers and International Internet Gateway (IIG) operators to block 58 news sites in the country.

Malaysian Labour rights organisations called for an urgent investigation into allegations of abusing workers from Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar against Top Glove.

China yesterday summoned the US ambassador to protest the "extremely bad" arrest of telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer in Canada and demand that the United States drop its extradition request.

The resignation of four technocrat ministers takes effect today, over a month after they had resigned from the cabinet.

Two soldiers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters loyal to factional leader Abubakar Shekau attacked a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources told AFP yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said there is no alternative to a skilled and smart naval force that will protect maritime sovereignty as well as marine resources to ensure the full trade and investment potential of the country.

Armenians were yesterday voting in parliamentary elections triggered years ahead of schedule by reformist leader Nikol Pashinyan, who is aiming to cement his political authority in the post-Soviet country.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a Soviet-era dissident who became a symbol of resistance in modern-day Russia as a leading rights activist, died after a long illness at the age of 91 in Moscow on Saturday.

A factory worker was killed allegedly after compressed air was pumped into his rectum by co-workers in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

Cross the road, it's now or never. Or that's what residents in the German town of Friedberg may start humming when their traffic light jumps to green to reveal a hip-swivelling Elvis Presley.

An alleged drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” between two groups of drug traders at Dhalaghat village in Chattogram's Patiya upazila early yesterday.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday said a tougher stance against corruption by the young generation could prevent the menace.

When indigenous groups from around the world met in Alaska in October, they sounded the alarm on how their homelands, cultures and livelihoods were threatened by rising temperatures, loss of permafrost, higher sea levels and weather disasters.

The words uneducated, rowdy and lawbreaker are likely to pop up when anybody thinks of drivers in Bangladesh thanks to the existing indiscipline in the transport sector.

US prosecutors said on Friday President Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer to make illegal hush payments to two women ahead of the 2016 election, and also detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian to help the Trump campaign.

A 13-year-old girl was killed as a bus hit a motorcycle from behind in the capital's Gulshan area yesterday.

Taherul Islam, a retired primary teacher of Shara-Gopalpur village in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila, set up a free school for underprivileged children seven years ago.

A new resolution in the US House of Representatives, placed by a Democrat congressman, has urged Bangladeshi political leaders and judicial authorities to respect the will of voters and ensure their free participation in the December 30 polls.

Belgium's notorious Africa Museum reopens on Saturday after a five-year restoration that curators hope will bury its reputation as a colonialist holdover.