An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery to bolster an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers already sent to the Gulf, ratcheting up pressure on archfoe Iran.

Three people, including bus driver Nuruzzaman and his helper Lalon, raped nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania inside the vehicle, hit her head with a blunt object and then threw her out so that the incident looks like a road accident, police said yesterday quoting the accused.

With empty plates and pots, hundreds of state-run jute mill workers yesterday took to the streets in the capital’s Demra, demanding arrears and fair wages. The workers said they had no money to buy food.

A couple of Bangladeshi origin, who ran a sweets-making business in New Zealand’s Auckland, have been jailed for their two-year exploitation of Bangladeshi migrant workers.

Performing umrah has become uncertain for almost 20,000 people amid a crisis of plane tickets.

After aborting the first landing attempt at the Yangon airport in bad weather, the ill-fated Biman plane on May 8 went up to 5,000 feet and circled near the airport for 15 minutes.

Sunil Ambris’s 126-ball 148 headlined West Indies’ five-wicket victory against Ireland in a tri-nation ODI series match in Dublin yesterday, with the tourists hunting down the target of 328 in 47.5 overs. Having lost two of their three matches so far, with one game abandoned, Ireland are out of contention to qualify for the final.

Migrants and activists want the visiting Bangladeshi officials in Malaysia to negotiate regularisation of undocumented Bangladeshis before starting any fresh recruitments.

At least 14 children became sicker at the paediatrics ward of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital last night after being given injections and a huge number of policemen had to be deployed to control the angry parents and relatives of the children.

South Africa’s ruling ANC yesterday geared for its sixth straight term in power in the post-apartheid era but its worst ever electoral showing could hamper efforts to revive the flagging economy and fight graft.

Two people, including a child, were burnt to death last night in Lighthouse area of Cox’s Bazar town.

Venezuela yesterday braced for another day of nationwide protests after President Nicolas Maduro clamped down further on opposition leader Juan Guaido, locking up his deputy in a military prison following a dramatic arrest.

Two more police officials have been suspended and attached to other police units for negligence in duty over the murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

Nearly 900 children held by a pro-government militia force fighting Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria were freed yesterday, the UN said.

Jeff Bezos, who heads both Amazon and space company Blue Origin, unveiled a lunar lander Thursday that he said would be used to transport equipment, and possibly human beings, to the south pole of the Moon by 2024.

US President Donald Trump rushed to his son’s defense on Thursday after a Senate panel ordered that Donald Trump Jr testify as part of its investigation into Russia election interference.

France opposes “repeated extensions” for Britain’s exit from the European Union, a presidential official said yesterday, keeping to the hard line of Paris on Brexit.

After a three-hour-long effort, police and firefighters rescued and arrested an alleged drug peddler who got trapped between two buildings while fleeing a police raid in Chandpur’s Shahrasti upazila on Thursday.

With the start of the Bangla month of Falgun, Nabidul Islam was over the moon to see his orchards adorned with mango buds. The grower in Kaliganj of Satkhira was expecting a bumper yield this year but there were unexpected rains coupled with hailstorms damaging a section of the buds in late February.