A group of unidentified criminals beat up a teenage driver of a battery-run auto-rickshaw and snatched his vehicle in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila on Friday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday hinted that BNP leaders deposited money in Swiss banks, which was collected through nomination business ahead of the December 30 national election.

A top Sudanese general yesterday warned he will not tolerate any vandalism at a planned mass protest, but insisted the ruling generals would hand power to a civilian administration.

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.

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping struck a trade war truce yesterday, as Washington vowed to hold off on further tariffs and declared trade negotiations with China “back on track.”

Police yesterday arrested three members of a family on charges of abducting and slaughtering a 32-month-old boy in Dinajpur’s Birampur upazila.

Warning against adulteration and fraudulence, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said businessmen involved in such practices would be punished.

Leader of a local gang was killed in what police said was a gunfight between two gangs in Meherpur’s Gangni upazila yesterday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police are making contradictory claims over the videographer who was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB men in Cumilla on early Friday.

Family members of the nine-month old baby who was raped in Fatickchhari upazila of Chattogram are being shunned by locals ever since some media houses published the family’s identity. The plaintiff of the case filed over the incident, a maternal uncle

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains since Wednesday inundated parts of Sylhet division yesterday, while the overflowing water from Teesta and Dharla rivers submerged char areas in Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha, disrupting the daily life of tens of thousands of people.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been urged to reach a trade deal or risk setting the global economy on a downward path as world leaders gathered in Japan for the G20 summit.

Five people, including three of a family, were killed in lightning strikes in Satkhira yesterday.

At least 41 students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University in Dinajpur were injured in a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Thursday.

The world’s second-most populous country is running out of water.

Dhaka and Beijing will sign an MoU on the establishment of an investment cooperation working group to boost investment ties between Bangladesh and China. The signing will take place during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s July 1-5 visit to China, officials in Dhaka said.

Washington is pressuring allies at the G20 to reject strong climate change language in the meeting’s final statement, despite furious opposition from EU countries, a French presidential source said yesterday.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for delaying the once-in-a-decade US census after the Supreme Court blocked his bid to add a question on citizenship -- a measure critics say would result in undercounting immigrants.