Five foreign ministers from top Asian and European countries start arriving in Dhaka today for talks with the government high-ups on the ongoing Rohingya crisis.

Cases filed under section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act are piling up, as the government is "undecided" what to do with the controversial section.

UN member-states yesterday urged Myanmar authorities to end a military campaign against the Rohingya in a resolution adopted despite opposition from China, Russia and some regional neighbours.

Bangladesh has achieved a record economic growth of 7.28 percent in the last fiscal year despite a fall in rice production and also in industrial growth. The gross domestic product rose by 0.17 percentage points in fiscal 2016-17 from 7.11 percent in the previous fiscal year, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics data.

Rohingya refugees cannot return to Rakhine state until "real Myanmar citizens" are ready to accept them, the country's army chief said yesterday, casting doubt over government pledges to begin repatriating the persecuted Muslim minority.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday once again expressed doubt whether she would get justice in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Bangladesh earned nearly $800 million this year exporting locally made software, and providing ICT-related services like outsourced and freelance work, said State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said Bangladesh is faced with an unprecedented crisis over providing humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya refugees and sending them back home.

Two top leaders of the newly formed Bangladesh Janata Party who “went missing” from the city's Sutrapur area around three weeks ago are now in police custody. Police say they arrested the duo on Monday.

This has been a bad crop year so far with back-to-back floods inflicting losses on the agrarian economy and seriously affecting livelihood in half the country.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday claimed that he met the CBA leaders and activists of Bangladesh Bank at its headquarters in the capacity of a trade unionist, not as a minister.

The constitution does not stipulate any timeframe for the president to appoint a new chief justice following the retirement or resignation of a chief justice, Law Minister Anisul Huq said yesterday.

More than a year after the Chinese president's historic Dhaka visit, some of Bangladesh's key development projects have finally gained momentum.

The chief election commissioner and one of his colleagues have contradicted each other over the issue of army deployment during the next general election.

Social Islami Bank Limited has seen another dramatic turn in a space of two weeks, with nine directors resigning at once.

Home Minster Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said there might be a conspiracy behind the Thakurpara arson attack on the Hindu community.

Danielle de Rossi, Italy's long-serving midfielder and a 2006 World Cup winner, had a very animated and revealing moment at the dugout during the latter stages of Italy's 0-0 draw against Sweden in Milan on Monday night.

Scared, the Hindus of Thakurpara in Gangachara of Rangpur are staying put.

The army will be deployed in the next general election but the method behind the deployment has not been decided yet, said Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar.

Teams of Iranian rescuers dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors yesterday after a major earthquake struck the Iran-Iraq border, killing at least 415 people and injuring thousands. The 7.3-magnitude quake rocked a border area 30 kilometres southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan around 9:20 pm (1820 GMT) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said.