At a time when the southern district of Bhola was trembling with fear after a bloody clash between police and religious zealots, a Muslim couple came forward to protect their Hindu neighbours from an attack carried out by a swarm of fanatics, putting their own lives at stake.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito yesterday completed his ascension to the Chrysanthemum throne in a ceremony steeped in the traditions and grandeur of a monarchy that claims 2,000 years of history.

A drone-like flying taxi whirred over Singapore’s waterfront yesterday, with the firm behind the test hoping the aircraft will revolutionise travel in traffic-choked Asian cities.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals held onto power after a closely fought election on Monday but were reduced to a minority government that will need the support in Parliament of a smaller left-leaning party.

A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped by a group of five men in Laxmipur’s Ramganj upazila on Monday. On information, police detained three accused -- Imon, 20, Rasel, 19, and Sharif, 22 -- in Bhadugram village of the upazila yesterday morning, said Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Ramganj Police Station.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Harunur Rashid, BNP lawmaker in Chapainawabganj-3, to five years’ imprisonment in a case filed for tax evasion during the import of a luxury car.

Thousands of commuters suffered immensely in Chattogram city yesterday as a section of bus owners and workers enforced a sudden strike, protesting the jailing of three of their fellows by a mobile court the day before.

Chinese authorities have detained a Japanese man in Beijing, Tokyo confirmed yesterday, following media reports that a university professor was being held on suspicion of spying.

Sattya Prashad Das spent his whole life teaching religious education and humanity to his students, irrespective of religions and caste in his locality in Bhola’s Borhanuddin upazila.

The National Board of Revenue yesterday asked banks to freeze all accounts of Jubo league presidium member Sheikh Fazlur Rahman Maruf and Awami Swechchasebak League President Molla Mohammad Abu Kawser.

The European Union has raised concerns over the human rights situation in Bangladesh, particularly focusing on the reports of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Teachers and students of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Muinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari Madrasa, saved a temple from vandalism when a group of people started throwing brick chunks at it on Sunday evening.

French investigators have wrapped up their probe into the jihadist attacks that killed 130 people on a single day in Paris four years ago, prosecutors said yesterday, paving the way for trial.

A man accused of raping an intellectually challenged woman in Netrakona’s Barhatta upazila was sent to jail yesterday.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain why seeking permission from the authorities concerned before arresting a government employee in criminal cases should not be declared illegal and contradictory to the constitution.

Afghans should not misconstrue America’s sudden and contentious withdrawal from parts of Syria as a precursor to a similar move in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said yesterday.

Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon’s sudden anti-government stance is nothing but his desperate attempt to prevent another split in the left-leaning political organisation, said party insiders.

Police yesterday recovered the beheaded body of a man from an abandoned luggage in Shambhuganj bridge area of Mymensingh city.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dealt another blow yesterday when the speaker of parliament denied him a second shot at winning MPs’ approval for his EU divorce deal, with Brexit looming in just 10 days’ time.

At least nine people were killed yesterday in firing along the de facto India-Pakistan border in Kashmir, officials said, adding to the spike in deaths in recent days as New Delhi eased a curfew in the disputed region.