“Living has been a curse to me. It would have been better if I died that day. I feel like death every moment.”

The last 14 days had been excruciating for the family members of Shakhawat Hossain Nijhum.

Safiur Rahman arrived at Kamalapur Railway Station from Keraniganj at 7:30am yesterday to catch a special train to go to his home in Kurigram for Eid holidays.

Ten Nobel laureates and 13 eminent personalities from across the world have urged immediate and unconditional release of acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam and the students arrested after the recent street protests in Bangladesh.

More than two million Muslims from around the globe started the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia yesterday, one of the world's largest annual gatherings in a country undergoing unprecedented change.

The government's handling of rumours on social media in times of crises, including the recent demonstrations for road safety, was not efficient, speakers told a roundtable yesterday.

Seven people, including three leaders of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), were killed and six injured in two gun attacks in Khagrachhari town yesterday.

Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad yesterday, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country.

Former UN chief and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan died yesterday at the age of 80, prompting a barrage of tributes and condolences from around the world for the "diplomatic rock star".

Amnesty International has called on Bangladesh to end the ongoing crackdown on the road safety protesters.

Stressing the need for a law amid growing concerns over the country's rapidly flourishing information technology sector, journalists, authors and rights activists yesterday said that if the proposed digital security bill was passed with its current content, it will severely curtail freedom of the press and expression.

Defending champions Bangladesh put up a below-par performance in the final of the SAFF U-15 Women's Championship as they suffered a 1-0 defeat to India at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu yesterday.

Hold meetings, make decisions and then forget all about them. This has been the practice of successive governments regarding road safety in the past three decades. Since the mid-80s, each government has undertaken numerous initiatives to reduce road crashes, but they are gathering dust at the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry.

Rab has arrested a woman entrepreneur in a case filed under the controversial section 57 of the ICT Act for “spreading rumours and sharing provocative posts” on social media over the recent student protest.

Pakistani lawmakers have endorsed Imran Khan as their next prime minister, ahead of a ceremony today that should see the World Cup cricket hero sworn in as leader of the nuclear-armed nation.

An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas were murdered and 19,000 Rohingya women and adolescents raped during the military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state since late August last year, according to a research report.

The Prime Minister's Office has issued a set of directives, asking the authorities to make sure that passengers are picked and dropped only at bus stops and the doors of running buses are kept shut, among other things, to ensure road safety in the capital.

Retired army officer Shafiqul Islam knocked on every possible door in the last one and a half months, hoping someone would help his son Tariqul Islam get bail.

Two million Muslims gather in Saudi Arabia this week for the hajj as the annual pilgrimage becomes increasingly hi-tech with apps to help the faithful navigate Islam's holiest sites.

With the Eid-ul-Azha only four days away, homebound people have already started leaving the capital. But like every year, most of them were caught up in tailbacks on highways, although the exit points were fairly clear yesterday.