A group of Chhatra League men dragged the principal of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute and pushed him into a pond on the campus yesterday.

Iraqi security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the early hours of yesterday near the capital’s Tahrir Square, leaving one demonstrator dead and dozens more wounded, medical sources said.

Malaysia rejected a compensation offer of “less than $2 billion” from Goldman Sachs for the role of its subsidiaries in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, an aide to the country’s prime minister said yesterday.

Hollywood legend and activist Jane Fonda was arrested Friday in Washington protesting politicians’ failure to address climate change.

Iraqi security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the early hours of yesterday near the capital’s Tahrir Square, leaving one demonstrator dead and dozens more wounded, medical sources said.

Malaysia rejected a compensation offer of “less than $2 billion” from Goldman Sachs for the role of its subsidiaries in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, an aide to the country’s prime minister said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that a senior department official, Chad Wolf, would become the nation’s new acting homeland security chief, a role at the center of his crackdown on undocumented immigration.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that negotiations with North Korea were going too slowly after Pyongyang fired two more short-range projectiles.

A court in Rajshahi on Friday sent a student of the Medical Assistant Training School (MATS) to jail in a case filed over the gang rape of a woman.

Law enforcers are yet to unravel the mystery of Dhanmondi double murder and still looking for the new domestic help who visited the apartment for the first time on Friday.

No case will be filed under the new Road and Transport Act (RTA) for the next seven days when public awareness programmes on the matter will be conducted, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.

Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) was closed for an indefinite period yesterday after students of two dormitories clashed over a football match on Friday, which left six injured.

A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020.

The authorities of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi curbed passenger movements for a couple of hours as they recovered a bag full of suspected RDX content in the wee hours yesterday.

A differently-abled girl was raped by a neighbour in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila on multiple occasions. She is now four months pregnant.

Sadeque Hossain Khoka, two-time mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corpora-tion and vice-chairman of BNP, is in critical condition and fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.

Onion prices have gone beyond the general people’s reach as per kg of the cooking ingredient was selling for Tk 150 at kitchen markets in the capital on Thursday, despite government’s measures to pull the reins.

Bangladesh wants a strong and effective role of the Asean in the Rohingya repatriation as the regional bloc begins its four-day summit in Bangkok today.

A woman and a female domestic help were found murdered in a flat in the capital’s Dhanmondi area last night. Police have detained two people for interrogation.

Australia’s pro-coal government yesterday threatened harsh new penalties against “apocalyptic” activism as a global wave of climate protests has become increasingly disruptive for the country’s lucrative mining industry.