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.

The High Court yesterday observed that the allegation against then OC of Rajshahi’s Puthia Police Station Shakil Uddin Ahamed of manipulating the FIR in labour leader Nurul Islam murder case is undoubtedly grave.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Madrid yesterday to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25).

Namibian president Hage Geingob on Saturday won the country’s presidential elections with a diminished majority of 56.3 percent, the worst performance of any ruling party candidate for nearly 30 years.

Angela Merkel faces a rocky political road ahead as she battles to hang on until 2021 as German chancellor, after her junior coalition partner SPD elected a left-leaning leadership duo.

Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will step down on January 18, party sources told AFP Saturday, following mounting criticism of his response to the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Several hundred mostly women protesters rallied in the Tunisian capital on Saturday against violence targeting women, urging authorities to act to ensure their rights.

A senior Iranian official has suggested in an interview with AFP that authorities may be more open than in the past in approving candidates for a looming parliamentary election.

A Dhaka Medical College Hospital staff was beaten to death allegedly by a schoolboy yesterday after the victim complained to the accused’s family about his smoking, said police.

Four men who raped a 26-year-old woman before strangling and setting her on fire in Indian state of Hyderabad on Wednesday night planned the gruesome assault in the evening when they saw her park her scooter near a toll booth, police documents accessed by NDTV have said.

The govern-ment is relentlessly spreading propaganda at home and abroad, saying that it has implemented 48 of the 72 clauses of Chattogram Hill Tracts Peace Accord, alleged Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity President Jyotirindra Bodhipriyo Larma yesterday.

Feni University, a privately owned institution in the district’s Sadar upazila, has been filling up a century-old waterbody disregarding several notices from Department of Environment.

Tens of thousands rallied in Florence in Italy on Saturday against the far-right League party, the latest in a series of demonstrations called by the new, youth-driven “Sardine Movement”.

Dozens of people in protest-swept Lebanon staged a candlelit vigil outside Iraq’s embassy on Saturday to denounce the excessive use of force against demonstrators there.

The nation is all set to celebrate the Month of Victory that starts today, through different festivities and programmes to be held throughout the month.

River transport workers yesterday started a nationwide indefinite strike, after what they called was the authorities’ failure to meet their demands in around seven months.

The Faraaz Hossain Courage Award-2019 will be given at a programme in the city’s Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel today.

Leaders of Bangladesh Petrol Pump O Tank Lorry Malik Shramik Oikya Parishad have called an indefinite strike starting today in three divisions.