China yesterday hailed the “great significance” of the weekend meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, and urged all sides to “seize the opportunity” to make progress towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

Taiwan’s leader will stop over in the United States during a visit to four Caribbean diplomatic allies in a move that could anger Beijing.

One person was killed in Nepal when police opened fire on protesters after a 12-year-old boy drowned to death in a sand mining pit, officials said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka yesterday afternoon for a five-day official visit to Dalian and Beijing to attend a meeting of World Economic Forum and hold talks with Chinese leaders.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is not afraid of the cancellation of hajj flights this year as the national airliner has already sold about 99 percent tickets of its 365 pilgrimage flights, starting from July 4.

Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, yesterday filed a petition with the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a corruption case.

Thirty leaders and activists of BNP-led alliance landed in jail yesterday for allegedly carrying out an attack on Sheikh Hasina in Pabna 25 years ago.

Crocodiles are sometimes described as living fossils for their close resemblance to their forebears who roamed the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.

The accused of raping a nine-month-old baby surrendered before a Chattogram court yesterday.

The United States on Saturday called for an end to a mobile internet shutdown in two strife-torn states in Myanmar, saying the cut-off undermines transparency amid clashes between the military and insurgents.

At least 43 containers loaded with imported goods yesterday fell off a cargo vessel into the Bay of Bengal due to rough sea condition.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised the best possible treatment for the teen who was beaten up by a group of unidentified criminals in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila on Friday.

Police yesterday arrested four more people, including two accused, in connection with the killing of Barguna’s Shah Newaj Rifat Sharif while the three key accused are still at large.

Entrepreneurs will not be required to pay Advance Tax on import of capital machinery and spare parts this fiscal year, as the government has backtracked on its move to levy the indirect tax on such import to facilitate industrialisation.

Donald Trump yesterday stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world’s last Cold War frontier.

Noting that 100 percent voter turnout in any polling station is not ‘normal’, the chief election commissioner yesterday said the Commission had nothing to do with it once the gazette of the election result was published.

Two Yemeni rebel drones targeting southern Saudi Arabia were intercepted on Saturday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in a series of assaults on the kingdom.

An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year’s Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps.

Canada is facing mounting pressure from senators, and members of the civil society and rights groups from across the country to take more international action in holding Myanmar accountable for the Rohingya genocide, reports The Canadian Press.

A mystery foreign buyer has snapped up a painting by Italian master Caravaggio that was discovered five years ago in a French attic before it could be sold at auction, the auction house said.