Founder and Chair Emeritus of BRAC Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday in a letter said that after stepping down from his role as chairman of the non-government organisation, he would now focus on guiding the future strategy of BRAC.

A protester died and more than 100 people were arrested during a curfew in Kashmir’s main city after the region’s autonomy was scrapped by India, officials said yesterday.

A Chuadanga court has recorded statements of three juveniles in connection with a case filed over the murder of their fellow student Abir Hossain.

Eleven people have drowned and dozens are missing after a barge sank on a river in central Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said yesterday.

Indonesian leader Joko Widodo yesterday warned that officials would be sacked if they failed to stamp out rampant forest fires that are belching out toxic smog over Malaysia and Singapore.

The High Court yesterday ordered four BNP leaders, including its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, to surrender before a Dhaka court within six weeks in a case filed over issuing death threat to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The High Court yesterday deferred until tomorrow the hearing of Aysha Siddika Minni’s bail petition in the case filed over her husband Rifat Sharif’s murder.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the government would replace the capital’s old gas pipelines with new ones.

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement yesterday. She was 88.

Dhaka University’s disciplinary board has suspended 69 students on charge of committing forgery during admission tests.

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar said they launched air strikes early yesterday against an airbase in third city Misrata held by government loyalists.

Sushma Swaraj, former foreign minister of India and one of the BJP’s tallest leaders who was respected across party lines, is dead, Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences said yesterday evening.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab officials in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday.

Israel has advanced plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a surge of such approvals since US President Donald Trump took office, an NGO said yesterday.

Damascus and Russia resumed air strikes on Idlib in northwest Syria on Monday, a monitor said, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing the regime’s opponents of targeting a Russian air base.

An Indonesian man is walking 700 kilometres (435 miles) from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago’s quickly shrinking forests -- and he is doing it backwards.

Every year on the last day of hajj flight operation, a number of pilgrims would shed tears at the capital’s Ashkona Hajj Camp after failing to go to Saudi Arabia due to various irregularities and fraudulent activities of some hajj agencies.

Six people, including four alleged drug peddlers and a gang rape accused, were killed in “gunfights” with the police and the BGB in three districts early yesterday.

Aysha Siddika Minni yesterday filed a bail petition with the High Court in the case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.

Hong Kong riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters for a third straight day yesterday, as the city’s leader warned the global financial hub was nearing a “very dangerous situation” and a rare strike caused transport chaos.