Election watchdog Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday alleged that the December 30 national polls, won by the ruling Awami League, was marred by massive irregularities.

City dwellers yesterday suffered for the second consecutive day as several thousand rickshaw-pullers blocked sections of Rampura-Kuril road to protest the ban on rickshaws on three major streets in the capital.

Britain said Monday it had barred Russia’s RT and Sputnik news organisations from a global conference on media freedom in London because of their “active role in spreading disinformation”.

West Africa suffers the most inequalities on the continent but many governments prefer to ignore problems despite economic growth, a report by Oxfam and Development Finance International said yesterday.

The death toll from a fuel pipeline blast in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos has risen to 12, a senior official said, after ten victims died of their injuries from last week’s explosion.

Flamboyant French businessman Bernard Tapie was yesterday acquitted on charges of defrauding the state of more than 400 million euros ($450 million) with a massive 2008 arbitration award that has also ensnared IMF chief Christine Lagarde.

The High Court yesterday rejected the writ petition which sought a stay order on the government decision to hike the price of gas.

Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva will arrive in Dhaka today to attend a two-day international conference on climate change adaptation.

Harun Or Rashid, the lone accused in the case filed over the rape and murder of Wari schoolgirl Samia Afrin Saima, confessed that he had killed the seven-year-old girl after rape so that she cannot disclose his identity.

The UN rights office yesterday hammered India and Pakistan for failing to improve the situation in Kashmir, while renewing calls for an international probe into violations in the disputed Himalayan region.

Britain said yesterday it had contacted Washington to express regret for the leak of confidential memos in which its ambassador described US President Donald Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept”.

Researchers in Israel said yesterday they have pinpointed the site of an ancient Philistine town mentioned in the biblical tale of David seeking refuge from the Israelite king Saul.

Two people, including a child, were killed and five others injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall yesterday in KPM Kalabagan area of Rangamati’s Kaptai upazila.

Indian border guards shot dead a Bangladeshi national near Kironganj border of Chapainawabganj early yesterday.

More than 60 people were found stranded near a boat in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, an official said yesterday, as a trafficking route for persecuted Rohingya Muslims appears open for business despite a crackdown.

The Supreme Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction at Bangladesh Bank for issuing a circular that allows defaulters to reschedule their defaulted loans for a period of 10 years upon a down payment of just two percent of the total loan amount, and to get further loans.

Most low-lying areas in Chattogram city went under knee-to-waist-deep water yesterday due to incessant rain since Sunday night, causing immense sufferings to city dwellers.

Unidentified miscreants hacked a schoolboy to death in Gazipur city early yesterday.

Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum was yesterday set to begin a historic restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”, erecting a huge glass cage around the painting so the public can see the work carried out live.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that security measures implemented by his government would do away with the country’s long-running gang problem in four years.