Ducsu member Tanbir Hasan Shaikat yesterday said he, along with first-year students living in gono rooms in dormitories, would start residing in the vice-chancellor’s home from October 29.

The government move for out-of-court settlement of a dispute between the telecom regulator and two large mobile carriers over “dues” suffered at least a week’s delay yesterday.

The Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday sought explanation from its ally -- Workers Party of Bangladesh President Rashed Khan Menon -- for his recent statement on the 11th parliamentary election.

Appreciating Bangladesh for opening its borders to huge number of Rohingya refugees, the United States has urged the country to “postpone” its Rohingya relocation plan to Bhashan char.

A freedom fighter was buried without state honour in Dinajpur yesterday after his wife and children told officials that the 70-year-old had rejected the honour before his death.

A former top Australian intelligence official has been charged with mishandling classified documents, officials said yesterday, years after his home was raided during an investigation into Chinese influence operations.

Ice skaters on the two rinks in New York’s Central Park have long glided, or stumbled, past large red signs spelling “Trump.” Not this season, officials confirmed Wednesday.

A Moscow court yesterday ruled to keep US citizen Paul Whelan, who was arrested at the end of last year on espionage charges, in custody for another two months.

Tunisian Anis Amri, who drove a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market, took a selfie in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s apartment in the weeks before the attack, sources close to the investigation confirmed yesterday.

Over a year after it was enacted, the Road Transport Act-2018 will be enforced from November 1.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has asked the Special Branch (SB) of police to impose exit restrictions on 22 people -- most of them current or former leaders of Awami League and its front organisations -- who have allegedly amassed illegal wealth.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Buet student Mizanur Rahman on a five-day remand in Abrar Fahad murder case.

Teachers of government primary schools yesterday issued an ultimatum that they would boycott the upcoming Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) if their demand for better pay was not met by November 13.

The government has brought 2,730 new educational institutions from across the country under the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme.

The head of a UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned Tuesday that “there is a serious risk of genocide recurring” against the estimated 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority still living in the country.

Police arrested a young man on charge of raping a fourth grader of a madrasa in Laxmipur, while a court sent a man to jail allegedly for raping a seventh grader in Patuakhali yesterday.

An Italian couple survived a landslide that caused their house to collapse after being woken by their cats, giving them time to escape, media reported yesterday.

The prime suspect in the Saudi-returnee child specialist murder case and an alleged robber were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Hundreds of farmers rolled out tractors to stage protests at government offices across France on Tuesday, railing against measures they say are crimping revenues and contributing to a spike in suicides in the sector in recent years.

Shirin Akter Shela has become the first Miss Universe Bangladesh 2019.