Ramesh Raju has become a hero to the shell-shocked congregation of the Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa after he died stopping a suicide bomber who was bent on killing hundreds of people.

Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Gilber Caro has been arrested by intelligence agents “violating his parliamentary immunity,” the opposition-controlled legislature said on Friday.

Thousands of people representing the more than 300 tribes native to Brazil marched to government offices in Brasilia on Friday to protest the policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that threaten their reservation lands.

A female college student was burned with acid allegedly by a male classmate and his cohorts in Torgaoh Ferryghat area of Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila yesterday.

Sri Lanka has deported 11 Bangladeshis who used to work in a factory owned by Inshaf Ibrahim, a man involved in the Shangri-La hotel bombing in Colombo.

A stalker hacked and injured an eighth grader on her way home from school in Kulaura’s Ghaterbazar area yesterday afternoon for refusing to get into a relationship with him.

Forensic surgeons at Dhaka Medical College morgue found 11 packets of yaba pills while conducting autopsy on a body yesterday morning.

Senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah passed away at a hospital in Thailand yesterday morning. He was 69.

Only 13 percent people of Bangladesh prefer going to courts to get justice, and the rest, despite having faith in the judiciary, would rather have community leaders solve their issues, according to Justice Audit Bangladesh 2018.

Two alleged members of the outlawed Purbo Bangla Communist Party (PBCP) were killed in a “gunfight” between two rival groups in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila early yesterday, police said.

The country’s development cannot be sustained for long without establishing meaningful democracy, eminent citizens said at a roundtable yesterday.

Two pedestrians were killed when a lorry hit a rickshaw and then ran them over in the capital’s Jatrabari last night.

The government has fixed a list of foods for the students of secondary schools across the country and circulated it to all the educational institutes concerned to ensure proper physical and mental development of the young learners.

A Rohingya man was shot dead allegedly by a group of unidentified criminals while trying to save his younger brother from being kidnapped in Teknaf early yesterday.

The deaths of three ethnic Rakhine men in Myanmar military custody and the secret cremation of their bodies has provoked outrage, as fears over military impunity increase in the intensifying conflict with Rakhine rebels.

At least 1,300 mainly Cuban migrants escaped Thursday from a detention center in southern Mexico after threatening to set fire to the facility to protest against overcrowding.

Three people have died and 14 are missing following a coal mine blast in a separatist eastern region of Ukraine, news agencies reported yesterday.

Ukraine on Thursday appealed to the UN Security Council to take action to oppose a decision by President Vladimir Putin to grant Russian passports to Ukrainians living in eastern areas controlled by pro-Moscow separatists.

The low over equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining South Bay intensified into a depression over the same area since yesterday noon.

Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends.