At least 18 people were injured after an explosion caused a section of ceiling and walls of a restaurant to collapse on them in Gazipur’s Boardbazar area early Sunday.

The Jatiya Party is considering curtailing the special powers of its chairman mentioned in the party charter.

The Israeli army targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to a drone attack from the Palestinian enclave, the military said.

A man was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Mymensingh Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Former caretaker government adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday walked out of jail on bail four days after a Dhaka court sent him to jail in a case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti for defaming her in October last year.

Hong Kong police yesterday fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the upmarket Causeway Bay shopping district, after demonstrators had rallied at the US Consulate calling for help in bringing democracy to the Chinese-ruled city.

Chattogram’s road communication with nine districts was nearly cut off for about 10 hours due to a strike enforced by a group of transport owners, causing daylong suffering to thousands of people yesterday.

Tumpa (not her real name) grew up in her maternal grandfather’s house in a small village of Bogura’s Dhunat upazila and was a seventh-grade student at a nearby high school.

A fire broke out in the basement of the Election Commission building in the capital around 11:00pm last night.

The centre of Beijing was under lockdown early yesterday for a nighttime parade rehearsal by the Chinese military which is preparing for October 1 ceremonies to mark Communist China’s 70th anniversary.

When anti-corruption activist Yevgeny Kurakin went to make an official complaint about authorities destroying a park in his sleepy town near Moscow, he was arrested in the prosecutor’s office. Three months later, he is still behind bars.

A dozen international media organisations, including AFP, have signed up to a new initiative launched by the BBC to fight misinformation. AFP said in a statement on Saturday it has joined the BBC initiative, alongside organisations such as the European Broadcasting Union,

Italy has issued arrest warrants for 10 people, including an imam, suspected of financing terrorism, prosecutors said Saturday.

British lawmakers are preparing legal action in case Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to defy legislation compelling him to seek a further delay to Brexit, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.

India’s space programme suffered a huge setback yesterday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon.

The Election Commission has set up a separate server to store information and fingerprints of Rohingyas in order to prevent the refugees from obtaining National Identity Cards and becoming voters.

A man was stabbed to death allegedly by a group of muggers in Gazipur’s Tongi early yesterday.

Long-awaited talks between protesters and the Jahangirnagar University administration were postponed yesterday after a demonstrator was assaulted allegedly by a Chhatra League leader.

The headmaster of a government primary school and his son have allegedly taken photos of the half-nude body of a fourth-grader in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday urged parents to keep an eye in their children’s activities to keep them from getting involved in teen gangs.