A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed in a road accident in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The war that has ravaged Yemen has especially impacted the country’s estimated 4.5 million people living with disabilities, Amnesty International warned in a report yesterday.

The Human Rights Watch has called on the Bangladesh government to lift the restrictions which are “violating the right to education” of Rohingya children.

India wants three more transshipment points in Bangladesh for transporting goods to its north-eastern states, according to the agenda of a bilateral meeting that begins in Dhaka today.

Shelling by Myanmar’s military killed a woman and two infants, and wounded six others in Rakhine State on Monday, according to residents and a lawmaker in the town of Mrauk U, where security forces are fighting against an ethnic militant group.

A woman and her housemaid were found murdered in a flat in the city’s Mirpur area yesterday afternoon.

Iran yesterday rejected as “utter lies” unofficial casualty figures given for street violence that erupted last month during demonstrations against a shock decision to hike fuel prices.

Iraqi politicians and their regional allies gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss a way out of two months of protests that brought down the government, as violence hit shrine cities.

The World Health Organisation yesterday warned of a “slide back” in global efforts to eliminate measles, as the death toll from an outbreak that has killed dozens of children in Samoa continued to climb.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Islampur upazila of Jamalpur early yesterday.

The government has decided to phase out the use of bricks by 2025 in all its construction works to reduce the air pollution as brick kilns are one of the major sources of air pollution in Bangladesh.

Recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia “will take responsibilities” of the Bangladeshi female migrant workers as long as they remain employed in the Gulf country, as per a decision taken at a joint technical committee meeting recently.

Britain’s Apostrophe Protection Society is closing down, its founder has announced, saying it had sadly lost the fight against “ignorance and laziness”.

In an attempt to dodge the law enforcers, Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has opted for an online platform that allows anonymous communication for recruiting new members, police said.

The High Court yesterday came down heavily on Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) for not complying with its 2011 directives over sealing all sewerage lines to the Buriganga and for making an untrue statement about sewerage lines connected to the river.

A physician couple from the US has become the successors to late Dr Edric Sargission Baker, the New Zealander who established the Kailakuri Health Care Center in Madhupur upazila in 1996.

Police yesterday held a RAB personel with 800 yaba pills from his rented house at Domonpukur Thikadarpara in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila.

BJP President and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday set a 2024 deadline for implementing the controversial National Register of Citizens across India and said “each and every” infiltrator will be identified and expelled before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

One of China’s highest-ranking Uighur officials and the former head of the troubled northwest Xinjiang region was sentenced to life in prison over graft charges yesterday, a court said.

Japan said yesterday it had agreed to buy an uninhabited island off its southwest coast for $146 million, eyeing it for US military drills.