BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday showed their resentment over the comment of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chairman Amit Shah.

“Genocide” was used for the first time within a legal framework at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi officials after World War II over the deaths of six million Jews in the Holocaust unleashed by Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority yesterday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

A four-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Faridpur Sadar upazila on Sunday.

Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years yesterday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) yesterday launched an eviction drive to remove all structures of the illegal river port on the bank of Hurasagar river at Brishalikha in Pabna’s Bera upazila.

The government is going to publish the names of 11,000 Razakars who had been on Pakistan payroll and collaborated with the Pakistan occupation army in mass killings and carrying out atrocities against freedom fighters during the Liberation War.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said commercial courses were turning public universities into business organisations and this was disrupting the atmosphere on the campus.

About 28,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are still facing uncertainty over returning home within the December 31 amnesty deadline due to the high price of air tickets and a shortage of flights, said sources at the expatriates’ welfare ministry.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to remain alert to all forms of repression on women, saying that enacting laws was not enough to end the menace.

Fearing defeat, Lt Gen Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi tries to plot an escape but BBC leaks his plan. To conceal his weakness, he goes to Hotel Intercontinental and asks, “Where are the international journalists? I want them to know that I will never leave my army behind.”

Rohingyas demand Myanmar be held to account at the United Nations’ top court in The Hague, where Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is set to defend the country against charges of genocide of the minority community.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent two people to jail in connection with torturing two boys over alleged theft on Saturday.

Vibrant rows of neatly lined plants grow on a patch once trampled by the cattle of a large commercial farm run by a family of German descent in Namibia.

The son of a hijacking victim and his supporters on Sunday once more demanded North Korea return his father, five decades after Pyongyang diverted a plane carrying 50 South Koreans on board.

A three-month-old Malaysian infant has been diagnosed with polio, the first case reported in the country in nearly three decades, a top health official said yesterday.

He’s supposedly too old, too moderate, too prone to campaign stumbles.

The Saudi military student who carried out a deadly shooting spree at a US naval base showed videos of mass shootings at a dinner party the night before the attack, US media reported Saturday.

Air strikes by unidentified warplanes have killed five pro-Iran fighters in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based war monitor said yesterday.

A man in Lebanon tried to self-immolate during a protest in Beirut on Saturday, the Lebanese Red Cross said, before protesters extinguished the flames.