A fugitive accused of drug peddling was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab at Shahidnagar area in Narayanganj yesterday.

China and the United States have agreed to halt additional tariffs as both nations engage in new trade negotiations with the goal of reaching an agreement within 90 days, the White House said on Saturday after President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held high-stakes talks in Argentina.

Malawi has passed a law that will ban politicians using cash payments and other incentives to buy support ahead of key polls due in May next year.

Former US president George HW Bush, who guided America through the end of the Cold War and launched the international campaign to drive Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, died yesterday at his home in Houston. He was 94.

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a "gunfight" in Teknaf yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court's order of halting conviction and sentence in a corruption case against BNP Jashore-2 nominee Sabira Sultana for a day.

An 11-month-old baby girl died early yesterday, hours after she was slapped allegedly by a neighbour in the district's Sadar upazila.

A large portion of the donations meant for the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh is being spent as operational cost of international NGOs, says a study.

At least six students and a journalist were injured when Chhatra League activists attacked a group of students protesting the screening of commercial film “Dohon” at Rajshahi University yesterday.

A textbook-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch in Tangail yesterday.

Renewed violence in Yemen's vital port city of Hodeida has left 10 fighters dead, despite a UN push for peace talks, an official and medical sources told AFP on Saturday.

With the number of electricity-run vehicles like easy-bikes and electric cars increasing gradually in the country, the government has decided to bring those under regulation.

G20 powers yesterday opened two days of summit talks after a stormy buildup dominated by tensions with Russia and US President Donald Trump's combative stance on trade and climate fears.

Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi escaped a gun attack unhurt in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar last night.

United States Congressman Jim Banks has placed a resolution in the House of Representatives expressing concern over the threat posed on democracy and the democratic process by theocratic groups operating in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Jatiya Party Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho yesterday urged the Election Commission to use electronic voting machines in Bhola-1, from where he is going to run in the December 30 polls.

Two youths were killed and at least 11 shops were gutted in a fire in Shariatpur yesterday.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma will return to court in May for a hearing on whether corruption charges against him should be dropped, a judge ruled yesterday.

China yesterday scolded the United States for sending naval vessels close to disputed islands in the South China Sea where Beijing has built military installations.

Former Bosnian military commander Naser Oric, hailed by supporters as the heroic "defender of Srebrenica", was acquitted yesterday by a local court of war crimes during the country's 1990s conflict.