BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family members have applied to the home ministry for her “temporary” release, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters yesterday.

Opening duo Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney scored glittering half-centuries as a ruthless Australia crushed India by 85 runs to win a record-extending fifth Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in front of a heaving Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Malaysia’s palace yesterday denied allegations of a “royal coup” in appointing the country’s prime minister after veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad resigned, saying the king used his discretionary powers prescribed in the constitution.

A Khulna court sentenced five people to death in the case of killing kindergarten teacher Kazi Tasfin Hossain Toyon. Each of those convicted was also fined Tk 50,000.

Saudi authorities have detained three princes including King Salman’s brother and nephew on charges of plotting a coup, the US media reported Friday, signalling a further consolidation of power by the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

A speech-impaired seven-year-old girl was raped in the city’s Kamrangirchar area on Friday night.

Khaleda Zia’s younger sister Selima Islam yesterday expressed doubt whether they would be able to take the BNP chief out of hospital alive as the “government was delaying her release from jail”.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the Turkish coastguard to stop migrants from making risky Aegean sea crossings, as fresh clashes erupted yesterday pitting migrants against Greek border police.

Bangabandhu in a meeting with labour leaders says fresh elections to the trade unions using secret ballots will be held soon. He also assures them that the representatives elected by the workers will only be allowed to represent the trade unions.

Bodies of five more passengers, including three of a family, who drowned in the Rajshahi boat capsize on Friday were recovered yesterday, raising the death toll to six.

Go to the CNG-run autorickshaw stand in Gazipur’s Board Bazar area, you can’t miss a three-wheeler with stickers on its front, back, sides and roof, reading “free for the poor, helpless and the physically-challenged”.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the coronavirus outbreak might affect foreign guests’ presence at the celebrations of “Mujib Borsho”.

The world’s only known albino orangutan has been spotted alive and well in a Borneo rainforest, more than a year after she was released into the wild, conservationists say.

At least 20 people in Pakistan are dead and dozens more injured after torrential rainstorms collapsed several homes, officials said yesterday.

Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

European health ministers yesterday launched crisis talks on how to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the EU scrambles to gather protective medical supplies.

At least 27 people were killed in an attack on a political rally in Kabul yesterday, officials said, in the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban.

Six members of Border Guard Bangladesh were sued yesterday over opening fire during Tuesday’s clash with villagers at Gazinagar Bazar of Matiranga upazila.

Convicted yaba baron Amin Huda died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city yesterday.

Egypt on Thursday reopened Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the first pyramid ever built, after a 14-year restoration costing nearly $6.6 million.