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

Wasa water in the capital’s four out of 10 zones are contaminated with arsenic and chlorine, according to a government report submitted to the attorney general’s office. The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development collected Wasa water

Three minor girls were allegedly raped in Bagerhat and Patuakhali on Tuesday. In Bagerhat, Hira Aktar, 12, a student of Gazirghat Dakhil Madrasa in Morrelganj upazila, was allegedly killed after rape.

Noting that Bangladesh has friendly relations with all, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh was marching forward and getting foreign investment as the country had no hostility to anyone.

Biman is hoping to fly to China’s Guangzhou from this September and two new destinations in Europe and Saudi Arabia by this year end.

A research team, for the first time in Bangladesh, is studying native snake species aim-ing at mass-scale production of effective antivenom for local patients.

Indian rescuers yesterday brought down on the bodies of four out of eight climbers killed in an avalanche almost six weeks ago on the country’s second-highest mountain.

The UN said yesterday that conflict had intensified in a region of South Sudan since a peace deal was signed, with hundreds of civilians raped or murdered by warring factions.

Two men were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

A new study has identified the United States -- the nation where the idea of mass production was born -- as the world’s top producer of waste while also being the worst among industrialised nations at managing it.

China yesterday warned Canada not to be “naive” and believe that US pressure could help resolve thorny issues plaguing relations between Ottawa and Beijing.

Fourteen Russian seamen have died in a fire on a deep-water research submersible, Russia’s defence ministry said yesterday, amid local media reports that the vessel was a secretive nuclear-powered mini-submarine.

At least 60 people including two teachers, two journalists and a policeman were injured in a factional clash of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Jahangirnagar Uni-versity campus yesterday.

Rahul Gandhi yesterday quit as head of India’s main opposition Congress party, taking the blame for a second-straight election humiliation by right-wing Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Six employees, including a textile engineer, of a spinning mill in Gazipur were killed in a factory fire on Tuesday.

A female doctor died of dengue fever at a city hospital yesterday. She is the third patient to have died of the disease in the country since January.

Indonesian police have arrested the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network linked to al-Qaeda, authorities said yesterday, on suspicion of recruiting members and sending them to Syria to train with extremist groups.

Rival Afghans will meet Sunday in Qatar, officials said, in a fresh attempt to make political headway as the United States seeks a peace deal with the Taliban within three months.

Turkish police yesterday launched nationwide raids to detain 122 individuals accused of ties to the group blamed for a 2016 coup attempt, state media reported.

Twenty-nine Bangladeshis, who remained stranded in the turbulent Libyan capital Tripoli and its suburbs, returned home early yesterday.