After six hours of blockade, law enforcers have managed to convince agitating students to step aside and resume traffic on the busy Airport Road.

India has stripped 40 lakh people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the north-eastern state.

Three journalists were assaulted by activists of Awami League and its student wing BCL yesterday and another one was allegedly beaten up by police, while they were covering the city corporation polls in Sylhet.

The ruling Awami League's mayoral candidates won big in two city corporations and the BNP contender was leading in one in yesterday's battle of ballots, marred by widespread electoral irregularities.

Two alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate incidents of “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion in Munshiganj and Rajshahi early yesterday.

During a mad race between two buses for passengers, one of the drivers slammed on the brakes near the ramp of the Airport Road flyover adjacent to the Armed Forces Medical College in Kurmitola.

Drug dealers are now smuggling yaba from Myanmar into Bangladesh through the Indian border with three districts in greater Sylhet using Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam as the conduit route.

Voting in Barisal, Sylhet and Rajshahi city corporations begins this morning with all the mayoral candidates except for the ones from the Awami League casting doubt about fair polls amid arrests and harassment of their supporters.

He has spent the last 30 years of his life at the wheel as a professional bus driver.

Buoyed by a century from Tamim Iqbal, some good bowling and work in the field coupled with the West Indies' struggles in the middle overs, Bangladesh secured a somewhat nervy 18-run win in the series-deciding ODI in Basseterre to seal a 2-1 win yesterday.

The government is considering importing coal to run Barapukuria coal-based power plant in Dinajpur as supply from the country's lone coal mine, Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL), has stopped.

A large part of Dhaka South City Corporation is at risk of a dengue outbreak as the carrier of the virus, Aedes mosquito, is present at over one-third of the houses and other structures in that zone, a survey has found.

Moments before being released by his abductors, an Awami League leader was threatened with death in “crossfire” and forced to sign two sets of blank papers and stamp papers each.

Defying a ban on their stay in the city corporation areas going to polls tomorrow, outsiders campaigned for the Awami League's mayoral candidates in the three cities on the last day of electioneering yesterday.

Three alleged criminals, including a "drug peddler", were killed in separate incidents of “shootouts” with law enforcers in Comilla, Satkhira and Barguna early yesterday.

A ruling Awami League leader was found hours after he was picked up in broad daylight in front of his house in the capital's Lalmatia yesterday allegedly by four unidentified people equipped with firearms and walkie-talkie sets.

The scene of the battle between two evenly matched teams moves to St Kitts as both West Indies and Bangladesh have a chance to win the three-match one-day international series by winning the third ODI today. Bangladesh had won the first match at the Providence Stadium in Guyana by 48 runs before the hosts struck back with a three-run victory in the second ODI at the same venue on Wednesday to level the series 1-1.

In his first reaction over Wednesday's elections, Nawaz Sharif, the incarcerated leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), alleged that the polls had been “stolen”.

Pakistan's main parties rejected the outcome of elections won by Imran Khan and announced protests demanding new polls yesterday, after the pivotal vote was criticised by foreign observers over allegations of rigging.

Two companies and two individuals were honoured yesterday at the 17th edition of the Bangladesh Business Awards for their extraordinary success and contribution to the economy.