A number of ministers yesterday demanded stricter monitoring of the activities of the local and international NGOs operating in Bangladesh. They also called for scrutinising the earnings and expenditures of the non-governmental organisations, alleging that some of those provoke workers to create chaos.

Thousands of expatriates, including Bangladeshis, have been detained in Saudi Arabia since Wednesday as the authorities have begun a campaign against the violators of residence, work and border security regulations.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed sedition charges against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and three others in a case filed over broadcasting a “provocative speech” of Tarique.

Attending a conference in Myanmar, foreign ministers from Asia and Europe have called for immediate cessation of hostilities, halting of outflow and early return of externally displaced Rohingyas.

The High Court yesterday ordered hospitals and clinics not to hold any deceased's body if his or her family fails to pay the medical bill.

The book importer, who was picked up by plainclothes men on November 8, is now claimed to have been arrested on Sunday night in a terror case.

Germany, Sweden and the European Union yesterday extended their strong support to Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue. They also highly appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her great humanitarian gesture of sheltering tens of thousands of forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh, reports BSS.

Alamgir jumped out of a human haulier inside Dhaka Cantonment and kept hollering at the top of his voice, "Jahangir Gate, Jahangir Gate".

The government will clarify its position on the controversial section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act while placing the proposed Digital Security Act before the parliament, Law Minister Anisul Huq said yesterday.

Businessman Aniruddha Kumar Roy, who returned home nearly three months after his abduction, yesterday alleged that one of his business partners might be behind the incident, an allegation his partner rejected outright.

A US delegation yesterday thanked Bangladesh for its generosity in hosting a huge number of Rohingya refugees despite resource constraints and assured the country of raising the issue at the US senate.

City residents suffered dreadful traffic snarl-ups yesterday afternoon as Nagorik Committee organised a huge rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Unesco's recognition of the March 7 speech of the Father of the Nation was history's revenge on those who tried to erase the name of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his contributions to Bangladesh.

The Paradise Papers leak has revealed that businessman and BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo had registered his energy company NFM Energy Ltd in tax haven Bermuda on August 9, 1999—just around the time when the American company Unocal had given him a small share to help “troubleshoot” its local business.

The names of several companies linked to Bangladesh have surfaced in the Paradise Papers, a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world's most powerful people and companies.

With the next national polls a year away, the ruling Awami League is scaling up its organisational activities while the BNP is focused on drumming up support for a non-partisan election-time government.

Running away from his burning village in Rakhine State and coming to Bangladesh, 12-year-old Hasan walked into an abandoned village to look for food and water. When he found a water reservoir and got closer, he saw about 50 bodies floating.

Police dug out the body of a college student from his friend's house in Ulat village of Pabna's Sujanagar yesterday.

A report of the US state department listed Bangladesh among the countries which are a major source, transit point or consumer of smuggled wildlife products and their derivatives.

If you visit Amin Bazar on the capital's outskirts in winter, you will find a foggy haze rolling in with brick kilns dotting the landscape as far as eyes can see.