Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday afternoon at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Jatiya Oikyafront leader Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday urged all, including the media, to stay alert about any move that could hamper an impartial and credible election.

In a new global index, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998.

A former general who fought with Bosnian Muslim forces during the country's 1990s conflict was arrested in Sarajevo yesterday on charges of committing war crimes against Serb civilians, a prosecutor said.

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending an unusual payload into space -- 64 satellites at the same time, a US record.

A Palestinian was killed during a clash with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, Palestinian official media and a medical source said.

An Indonesian soldier was killed while investigating reports that more than two dozen construction workers were shot dead by separatist rebels in restive Papua province, officials said yesterday.

Natore Bangladesh Chhatra League President Rakibul Islam Jems allegedly shot former secretary of Natore Nawab Siraj Ud Dullah College unit BCL Shahriar Hossain Rion in Barogacha area of Natore town yesterday at 03:00pm.

A boat carrying 20 Rohingya men landed in Indonesia yesterday, authorities said, the latest group of the vulnerable Myanmar minority to reach the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Election Commission that several Western countries, along with some reputed regional and international groups, expressed their interest in sending election observers for the December 30 polls.

At a crowded room of the capital's Jatiya Press Club yesterday, eight-year old Adiba Islam Hridi cried softly while sitting on her mother's lap.

Masked assailants stabbed to death an Awami League leader at his home in Naogaon's Patnitola upazila last night.

A faction of Tabligh Jamaat yesterday threatened to march towards Tongi Ijtema Maidan if the government does not lift restrictions on entry into the ground.

Two US organisations said they had found clear evidence that Myanmar military committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Rohingyas and urged the international community to set about a criminal investigation into the atrocities.

Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad was again admitted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) yesterday.

The Election Commission yesterday finalised a total of 40,199 polling centres nationwide for the December 30 polls.

Three people were killed and 24 injured yesterday when a powerful explosion rocked a shopping mall in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, but a fire official said it was not caused by a bomb.

Russia has begun allowing some ships to enter Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov, Kiev said Tuesday, in what could signal an easing of tensions in the flashpoint area.

Turkish police yesterday detained nearly 140 people in nationwide raids over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday started the trial of the sensational Holey Artisan Café terror attack case with recording the complainant's testimony.