The Chattogram Development Authority has been filling up vast swaths of low-lying land, designated as water reservoirs, in the name of building residential areas.

Flood has disrupted road and rail communications across the country as roads, bridges and rail tracks in several districts have been damaged or inundat-ed, causing immense suffering to people.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday said the government would “hear and examine” the allegation made by Priya Saha, who works in a Bangladeshi NGO, to US President Donald Trump about oppression of minorities.

Boeing announced Thursday some $6.6 billion in additional costs because of the 737 MAX crisis, further pressuring profitability as the global grounding of the plane following two deadly crashes drags on.

Singapore is returning almost $40 million to Malaysia seized in connection with a massive financial scandal that played a major role in the toppling of the corruption-plagued government of Najib Razak, police said.

China and Australia yesterday clashed over the detention of an Australian-Chinese writer who is held in Beijing on national security grounds -- the latest source of tension between the two countries.

The local administration stopped three schoolgirls from being forced into marriages in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday.

The US has reiterated that it will stand strong on resolving the Rohingya issue, and also holding the perpetrators in Myanmar accountable for committing the crimes of atrocities against Rohingyas.

Eight schoolchildren were among nine people killed yesterday aboard a runaway truck that crashed in central Philippines while transporting them to a sports activity, the authorities said.

An Australian boy who discovered a message in a bottle on a remote beach may have a new penpal after the Englishman who dropped it from an Australia-bound ship 50 years ago was tracked down.

Amid rift over the top leadership, HM Ershad’s younger brother GM Quader took the helm of the Jatiya Party yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the lower court judges to take effective measures to complete trials of the cases filed over rape and murder after rape within 180 days maximum.

Factories in the key industrial belt of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram have been enduring water crisis for more than three years, which forced many of them to slow or even halt production.

The government has failed to fully introduce a uniform admission test for public universities even nine years after taking a decision in this regard to ease the hassle of admission seekers and their guardians.

Sanctions imposed this week by the United States on Myanmar’s military leaders over human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims do not go far enough, UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee said yesterday.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecution office yesterday said their planned investigation into the atroc-ities on Rohingyas would be completely impartial and non-political as their officials were now on a visit to Bangladesh to engage with stakeholders including the victims.

Fifteen illegal migrants were killed and more than 20 injured in a minibus crash in southeast Turkey yesterday, a local governor said.

Hundreds of Sudanese demonstrators yesterday marched in the capital towards a prominent square to honour comrades killed in the months-long protest movement that has rocked the northeast African country.

German captain Carola Rackete, who sparked international headlines by forcibly docking in an Italian port with rescued migrants, faces questioning by an Italian prosecutor over allegedly aiding illegal immigration.

Russia has sent special forces in recent days to fight alongside Syrian army troops in northwestern Syria where they have been struggling for more than two months to seize the last opposition bastion, senior rebel commanders said.