The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which gives citizenship to non-Muslims who came to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan until 2014, went into force yesterday, the Indian home ministry said.

A Singapore opposition party has mounted the first legal challenge against an online misinformation law that activists say is being used to silence criticism of the government ahead of elections.

A government official was detained in Dinajpur yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Commission recovered more than Tk 1.85 crore from his possession, said ACC officials.

Steve Bellchambers is digging pits to bury the carcasses of livestock killed by bushfires which swept through his farm in Batlow, New South Wales.

Swarms of barefoot believers thronged a revered icon of Jesus Christ on Thursday in Manila for a lumbering and raucous procession considered one of the world’s largest shows of Catholic fervour.

Bolivia’s interim government said Wednesday it would launch a corruption probe into nearly 600 officials of the former administration, including ex-president Evo Morales

Four Turkish soldiers were killed Wednesday in a car bombing in northeastern Syria, Turkey’s defence ministry said.

Iran yesterday spurned US President Donald Trump’s call for a new nuclear pact and a Iranian commander threatened more attacks after both sides appeared to back off from intensified conflict following the US killing of an Iranian general and Tehran’s retaliatory missile strikes.

Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast yesterday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities.

Criminals shot an indigenous man dead in Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her six-year-old son at their home in Manikganj’s Saturia upazila yesterday.

Surgeons at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), for the first time, have successfully replaced the aortic valve in an elderly woman’s heart using a minimally invasive procedure.

The government yesterday said that 164 people died of dengue last year.

Muslim devotees of home and abroad have started gathering on the bank of the Turag river in Tongi to attend the first phase of Biswa Ijtema set to start today.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged concerted efforts to build a national consensus regarding the fundamental issues of continuity of democracy, the rule of law, and the country’s uninterrupted socioeconomic development.

Border Guard Bangladesh has requested its Myanmar counterpart to remove landmines or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from the Bangladesh-Myanmar bordering areas.

Some 132 Bangladeshi migrant workers, including five females, were deported by the Saudi authorities in the last two days.

The intention of the massacre and atrocities at the BDR Pilkhana headquarters in 2009 was to depose the newly formed Awami League-led government, create a political crisis, and damage democracy, said the High Court in the full text of the BDR mutiny case verdict.

A man was held for allegedly raping his daughter in Bogura early yesterday.

The EU’s top official yesterday told Britain that it could lose its open access to the European market if it refused to extend post-Brexit partnership talks beyond 2020.