Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she wanted a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis evading confrontation with anybody over the issue.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has doubled the entrance fee for Sadarghat and other major launch terminals in the country.

Iran said on Monday that it is on track to create a new oil terminal on the Sea of Oman that would open a new export route for its crude and allow tankers to bypass the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A Uighur scholar imprisoned in China since 2014 was jointly awarded a top European human rights prize on Monday, an accolade likely to draw the ire of Beijing.

Sarajevo journalists protested Monday outside a football club whose fans stormed a radio station and threatened to kill its reporters unless they removed an article from their website.

Britain’s Prince Harry on Monday paid tribute to a British soldier who was killed during an anti-poaching patrol operation in southeastern Malawi.

A former Bosnian Muslim army officer was jailed for 12 years on Monday over his role in the 1990s wartime killing of 27 Croat civilians, including women, children and elderly, a Sarajevo court ruled.

Spain’s Socialist premier Pedro Sanchez on Monday offered himself as the only candidate who could guarantee “stability” as the country heads into its fourth elections in as many years.

Cameroon launched a national dialogue on Monday to end a separatist conflict in the country’s anglophone provinces but hopes of a breakthrough were dimmed as key rebel leaders refused to participate.

Two suspected Rohingya drug dealers were killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince warned in an interview yesterday that oil prices could spike to “unimaginably high numbers” if the world doesn’t come together to deter Iran, but said he preferred a political solution to a military one.

The hillocks at the centuries-old Tarapur Tea Estate, a Debottor (endowed) property in Sylhet, are being razed and grabbed by some locals. After the estate remained illegally occupied by industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye for decades, it was returned to the shebait

Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating an extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using Nasa’s planet-hunting telescope.

India yesterday imposed a ban on export of onions, and the wholesale markets across Bangladesh witnessed an overall hike of Tk 20 per kg within hours.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday protested a report headlined “Road Transport Act: Amendment move cause for concern, says TIB” published by The Daily Star on September 29.

The free flow of information is being disrupted in Bangladesh, said British human rights body ARTICLE 19.

The authorities of Dhaka University last night fired two assistant professors for not joining work at the end of their study leaves.

Three Bangladeshi students won six medals, including a gold and a bronze, in the Robo Scholar Challenge Category of the International Robot D Challenge in South Korea.

Thirteen people, most of them students, were killed when a pick-up truck flipped over while trying to change lanes yesterday in the Thai capital, police said.