Criminals abducted an Awami League leader from Bandarban Sadar upazila on Wednesday night, said police.

The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the United States has been discovered in Alabama’s Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, a historical commission said on Wednesday.

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) once again tried to push a group of 10 Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh along the border of Kasba upazila yesterday, but the attempt was foiled by the Border Guard Bangladesh.

An upazila nirbahi officer yesterday sued seven Awami League men and 20 to 25 unnamed people for “threatening him with death” after he refused to include the people of their choice on the farmer’s list in Sirajganj.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf early yesterday, hours after his arrest. The dead was Mohammad Hanif, 38, of Natmora area in the upazila.

With Eid-ul-Fitr coming closer, sari makers in Tangail are now at the peak of rush, producing various hand-loomed saris. “Tangail saris”, produced by local handloom weavers, are famous across the country and are almost always in demand. For their various designs and price flexibility

Although BNP leaders yesterday collected nomination form on behalf of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia for the upcoming Bogura-6 by-polls, she said she won’t bid to contest the election, according to one of her aides.

Khalid Hussain, Ekushey Padak winner and one of the most prominent Nazrul exponents in the country, passed away while in hospital in the capital last night. He was 78. He breathed his last at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar at 10:15pm, Mahmud Hussain, his

Israel’s attorney general on Wednesday extended until October the deadline for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-trial hearing on corruption allegations, but rejected a request for a 12-month delay.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to stop sand extraction from the Sandhya river in Barishal to save the Birshreshtha Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir Smriti Museum and other structures from being devoured.

A Tangail court yesterday awarded four transport workers with life imprisonment for raping a garment worker in a moving bus in the district’s Dhanbari upazila in 2016.

The controversial 23-storey FR Tower in the capital’s Banani had no approval for floors above 18, said Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim yesterday, citing findings of a ministerial probe committee.

Two former Hong Kong independence activists have been granted refugee status in Germany in what is one of the first cases of dissenters from the semi-autonomous Chinese city receiving such protection.

Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky came under fire Wednesday, just days after taking office, for appointing a chief of staff with links to a controversial oligarch.

Smokers in Singapore will no longer have to sneak a drag on the street, with the launch of the city-state’s first air-conditioned “smoking cabin”, but the experience won few fans among cigarette puffers yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with the Detective Branch of police in Meherpur early yesterday.

China must prepare for difficult times as the international situation is increasingly complex, President Xi Jinping said in comments carried by state media yesterday, as the US-China trade war took a mounting toll on tech giant Huawei.

The Public Works Department (PWD) has withdrawn an executive engineer from Pabna over alleged irregularities in purchasing furniture and other household items for a housing project of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.

The High Court yesterday said it would take appropriate legal action against Green Line Paribahan if the transport company does not comply with its order for compensating Russel Sarkar who lost a leg after a bus of Green Line Paribahan ran him over in April last year.

Thousands of people tried to buy train tickets online yesterday, the first day of advance ticket sale for Eid, clogging up the servers.