Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison yesterday, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign -- and backroom diplomacy -- for their release.

Three people, including two suspected drug traders, died in “gunfights” with the police and the Rab in Dhaka, Munshiganj, and Rangpur yesterday.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has seen a sharp rise in ticket sales which the aviation ministry claims was due to a drive against corruption in ticketing.

The number of schools and madrasas with zero pass rates in the SSC exams has more than doubled since 2015, thanks to the lack of qualified teachers, adequate infrastructures and strict government action against the poor performing institutions.

There would be no respite from the heat wave in the next few days, the Met office forecast yesterday.

Water Supply and Sewerage Authority must shoulder the responsibility for supplying polluted water to city dwellers, a platform of people living in the capital’s Jurain, Shyampur and Kadamtali areas said yesterday at a mass hearing.

Pope Francis urged the Balkans to embrace its patchwork of faiths and ethnicities during a visit to North Macedonia yesterday, where he held an open-air mass in the capital Skopje, the proud birthplace of Mother Teresa.

Services at Narail Sadar Hospital have improved to some extent over the last one week with the attending doctors making sure that no one is absent there.

Social Democrat Laurentino Cortizo won Panama’s presidential election Sunday in a close race that saw a large number of voters turn out amid concerns over corruption scandals and the country’s image as a money-launderer’s paradise.

A former Goldman Sachs banker has been extradited from Malaysia to the United States to face charges linked to the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a source and reports said yesterday.

US officials pressed Turkey on Sunday against going forward with plans to start exploratory drilling for oil and gas off Cyprus, labeled as illegal by the European Union.

Although she was born without three limbs out of the four, her indomitable spirit to pursue education could not be hindered.

The High Court yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the failure to implement one of its directives from 2009 that committees must be formed at all educational institutions and workplaces across the country for the prevention of sexual harassment.

Health condition of national award-winning singer Subir Nandi deteriorated once again yesterday as he had suffered from multiple organ failure at Singapore General Hospital.

A madrasa teacher has been suspended for allegedly sexually harassing three minor girls of his institution in Dinajpur’s Parbatipur upazila.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, gave birth to a boy yesterday, the seventh-in-line to the throne and described by his proud father as “absolutely to die for”.

The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow’s busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing.

For the last couple of months, butchers have been increasing beef prices, claiming extortion on highways and poor supply of cattle.

After passing the civil service exam in 2015, young physician Nuzhat Islam* was excited about being posted at an upazila health complex in Tangail. The experiences that followed, however, were unpleasant enough to puncture the joy with which she joined work.

Dutch envoy in Dhaka Harry Verweij has said foreign companies find it extremely challenging to set up firms in Bangladesh.