Twitter has suspended the account of Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Myanmar, over allegations of propagating hate speech against the Rohingya community. Although the general had not been active on the platform for about a year now, the suspension is being deemed as a “massive victory”

Workers of nine state-run jute mills in Khulna, who have been demonstrating for arrears and better pays since early this month, yesterday accused their leaders of failing to draw the attention of the higher authorities to their plights. Talking to The Daily Star, they said the “go-slow” strategy

Josu Ternera, one of the most influential leaders of former Basque separatist group ETA, was arrested in France yesterday after more than 16 years on the run, Spain’s interior ministry said.

Election officials in Afghanistan should do more to ensure delayed presidential polls can take place in September, the US embassy in Kabul said yesterday.

Three militants inspired by the Islamic State group have been arrested in Malaysia, accused of planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship in the country and neighbouring Indonesia, police said yesterday.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned disgraced British media mogul Conrad Black, who served more than three years in prison in the US for fraud and obstruction of justice.

Indian police yesterday said they are probing a suspected fresh case of a Muslim man being killed by so-called Hindu cow vigilantes.

An alleged drug peddler “died by suicide” in police custody in Patuakhali, while two others were killed in “gunfights” with police and BGB in Cumilla and Cox’s Bazar from Wednesday night until yesterday evening. In Patuakhali, the hanging body of a suspected drug peddler was recovered from Mohipur Police Station

A popular British talk show known for pitting guests against each other was cancelled yesterday after the reported suicide of a man one week after appearing on the programme.

San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies.

Students are voluntarily harvesting paddy in Tangail and Mymensingh to help farmers who are hit hard by low price. Lately, the farmers’ plight came to limelight as media reports of a farmer in Tangail’s Kalihati spraying kerosene on a part of his field and setting fire to ripe paddy had surfaced. The farmer

With sweet white scented flesh and crimson skin, lychees are almost ready to hit the market, according to farmers in Dinajpur, the northern district famous for production of the juicy summer fruit.

A 49-year-old sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for a 23rd time yesterday, creating a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, Nepali hiking officials said.

Soldiers patrolled the centre of Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal state, yesterday a day after rival political supporters clashed during campaigning for the country’s general election.

The Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) ministry has said Tk 75.61 lakh is needed for collecting and examining 1,065 samples of water supplied by the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) in its 11 zones.

A father in Feni filed a case on Tuesday accusing a young man of raping his daughter multiple times over the last one year.

The High Court yesterday issued a serious warning saying that the companies and individuals responsible for adulterating milk and curd, whoever they were, would not be spared and they must be punished.

Jute mill workers’ demonstration for arrears and better wages entered its 11th day yesterday, but no one from the authorities contacted them till last night to resolve the crisis.

A booklet promoted by the Palestinian education ministry hailing president Mahmud Abbas has received criticism and mockery online, prompting the government to stress it is not an official text.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) has urged the international community to cut off all financial and other support to Myanmar’s military.