At least four children were drowned and seven others went missing as a boat capsized after being hit by a storm at Kaliakuta haor at Derai upazila last night.

Beijing denied yesterday that a huge military parade planned for China’s 70th anniversary was a sign of the country “flexing its muscles”.

Ghana’s security forces have arrested at least three suspects over an alleged plot to destabilise the government, the information minister said.

On Sunday, locals in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila woke to what seemed to be an absurd sight: bank notes floating in a waterbody near the Khaowra bridge area.

At least 19 people were killed and 300 others wounded after a shallow earthquake rattled north-eastern Pakistan yesterday, a senior police officer said, with the tremor tearing car-sized cracks into roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.

A faction of Kushtia Islamic University (IU) Chhatra League has declared the president and the general secretary of the existing BCL committee unwanted on campus for allegedly securing their positions in exchange for money.

Casino facility is essential for tourism industry and it will be available for foreigners in exclusive tourist zones across the country.

Watermelons hanging from sheds is now a common sight in villages across Khulna’s Dumuria upazila, where over a hundred farmers are earning profit by growing the juicy fruit in the off season.

A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced four people to death for killing a fourth grader after rape in the district’s Singair upazila in July 2008.

It apparently wasn’t a case of a man speaking from beyond the grave, but one of utter carelessness. The investigation officer (IO) who took the deposition of former Biddyakut UP chairman Abdur Rouf over a murder case in Nabinagar of

Md Shah Nur Mia, ringleader of a syndicate which handed forged national identity cards to Rohingyas, has been arrested, CMP investigators said yesterday.

A woman was found dead in Sunamganj’s Jamalganj upazila yesterday, a day after her husband died from electrocution at a construction site.

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg yesterday opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong measures to combat climate change - “How dare you,” she said.

Around 15 Election Commission staffers were involved in providing forged National Identity (NID) cards to Rohingyas and most of them have been sacked for their involvement in different irregularities.

The Police Headquarters recently instructed its members not to talk to the media about any cases under investigation and special or sensitive drives to avoid controversy.

Nine Chhatra Dal activists were injured when they were attacked allegedly by Chhatra League men at Dhaka University yesterday.

A Rohingya man was killed in a suspected landmine blast along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, officials said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday resumed his re-election campaign with a promise to lower taxes, but once again had to apologize for a photo showing him in blackface makeup.

Five women went on trial yesterday in an alleged plot to detonate a car bomb in front of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral when France was battling a wave of Islamist attacks that have killed over 250 people since 2015.

Indonesian authorities have cited failures in the Boeing 737 MAX design and oversight as contributing to the 2018 Lion Air plane crash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.