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.

A senior French cabinet minister and close ally of President Emmanuel Macron resigned on Tuesday after reports accused him of extravagant state-funded lobster dinners and misusing public housing in a blow to the centrist government.

Firefighters have located the bodies of two men in the rubble of a partially collapsed two-storey building in the capital’s Patuatuli area last night.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent yesterday joined her cabinet as defence minister, a high-profile job often called a poisoned chalice in Berlin’s fraught political landscape.

Children are fighting on both sides of Yemen’s five-year-old war, a human rights group said Tuesday as it urged Western powers to end arms sales to countries involved in the conflict.

For the last five years, girls have been doing better in terms of pass rate in the HSC exams than boys, but the boys have been getting more GPA-5s.

The United States said Tuesday it hoped to hold denuclearization talks with North Korea, after Pyongyang warned that US-South Korean military exercises could affect their planned resumption.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has a plan to introduce electric and high-speed trains in the country to make the railway services better and faster.

For more than a century, scientists have scoured the known universe for signs of extra-terrestrial life, an endeavour that has thus far proved fruitless -- unless you believe the US government is hiding aliens at a remote base in Nevada.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in an alleged gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh officials in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

A Barguna court yesterday granted police five days to question Aysha Siddiqa Minni in remand over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

The ruling party of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched another blistering attack on the press, linking critical coverage to potential “treason” in the latest broadside against the beleaguered media.

A peaking power plant in Hathazari has been ordered to suspend operation after officials found that it had been polluting the Halda river.

Health Minister Zahid Malik yesterday directed all deputy commissioners to control use of antibiotics in agro, poultry and cattle farms.