India’s newly re-elected government yesterday promised an easing of foreign investment rules and more infrastructure spending in an effort to boost flagging growth rates and create jobs.

Google yesterday agreed to change how it publishes New Zealand news after top officials in Wellington lashed the US tech giant for breaching court suppression orders in a high-profile murder case.

Echoing a recent statement of the High Court, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government did not like extrajudicial killings.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Pabna’s Bera upazila early yesterday.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was placed on life support yesterday as his condition deteriorated at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday against making threats that can “come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before,” after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by a landmark 2015 nuclear accord.

Ancient bones excavated in Israel and analysed in Germany may have cracked the puzzle of the Philistines’ provenance and provided for the first time evidence of the biblical people’s European origins, researchers say.

Police recovered a body from an abandoned room of Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque in Dhaka’s Azimpur yesterday.

The High Court yesterday again directed the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) chairman to remove all illegal structures along the Karnaphuli river in the port area and submit a report after complying with the order within three weeks.

Rab yesterday detained a madrasa principal in Fatullah for his alleged involvement in raping around a dozen female students since 2018.

The prosecutor of International Criminal Court yesterday requested the judges to authorise an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity and persecution against the Rohingyas.

A case was filed against four unidentified men yesterday for allegedly gang-raping a 20-year-old ready-made garment worker in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila on Wednesday night.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California yesterday at 10:33am (17:33GMT) near the Searles Valley in San Bernardino County, the United States Geological Survey said.

The EU’s new president-elect Ursula von der Leyen yesterday made her first trip to Brussels since being nominated, as senior officials sought to shore up support for her appointment in the European Parliament.

The Unesco has postponed the decision of including the Sundarbans on the List of World Heritage in Danger until next year, urging the Bangladesh government again to halt a large-scale industrial construction around the mangrove forest.

At least four people have been killed and 21 still missing after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, officials said yesterday, with a rescue operation continuing as hopes for finding survivors fade.

The EU’s new president-elect Ursula von der Leyen yesterday made her first trip to Brussels since being nominated, as senior officials sought to shore up support for her appointment in the European Parliament.

Taiwan’s parliament has voted to tighten a law governing links with China, effectively barring many of its former top ministers and retired generals from attending Chinese government ceremonies.

Human Rights Watch slammed Iraq’s prison authorities yesterday for detaining several thousand men, women and children in overcrowded and “degrading” conditions that amount to ill treatment.

The Philippines burned 1.4 tonnes (over 3,000 pounds) of seized narcotics yesterday as police warned the nation still faces a “flood” of illegal drugs despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly crackdown.