Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the United Nations to play a role in sending back over one million Rohingyas from Bangladesh to their homeland Myanmar.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament yesterday said her government was considering the formation of a commission to identify the masterminds of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s murder.

Though Bangladesh pressed for extradition of a high-profile convict from London, the United Kingdom apparently kept mum, terming the issue “sensitive”.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its order on the government to take necessary steps to stop sale of antibiotic drugs to people without doctors’ prescriptions.

Unplanned urbanisation is now a recognised structural barrier to all middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, in becoming developed nations, said Centre for Policy Dialogue Distinguished Fellow Debapriya Bhattacharya.

Police yesterday arrested two madrasa teachers in Bandarban for beating up a woman and her three children as they denied paying for consuming the madrasa tubewell’s water.

Despite a government promise that price of essentials would not rise before Ramadan, a section of unscrupulous wholesalers and retailers have yet again begun charging people more for those.

A Rajshahi court yesterday awarded eight outlaws with life term -- 31 years of rigorous imprisonment -- for the murder of three policemen of Dhalar Char Police Outpost in Pabna’s Bera upazila nine years ago.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday called the end of oil sanction waivers by the United States a “hostile measure” that “won’t be left without a response”.

The family of a former zamindar, who was killed by Razakars after the country’s liberation, claims it received death threats from land grabbers in Barishal’s Shyampur village.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was looking forward to his first talks with President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in Russia yesterday seeking support in Pyongyang’s nuclear deadlock with the United States.

Three alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Bangladesh will observe the United Nations Global Road Safety Week this year for the first time aiming to raise awareness about road safety to prevent road accidents.

Communist guerillas killed six Philippine soldiers and wounded six others yesterday, the military said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks in the country’s 50-year-old Maoist insurgency.

The career diplomat who is a shoo-in to become only the second president of ex-Soviet Kazakhstan since its independence has always appeared to prize loyalty over political ambition.

Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, whose 2017 bid for the presidency was torpedoed by a fake job scandal involving his wife, will face trial over the allegations, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.

Two people were killed and at least 10 others injured as a bus hit two rickshaws, two private cars and another bus in the capital’s Shahbag yesterday.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday launched an investigation to find out whether any illegal transactions had taken place centring the Nusrat murder.

Two men were killed in separate “gunfights” with police and Border Guard Bangladesh men in Chattogram and Cumilla yesterday.

A bus driver was allegedly beaten to death by a group of plainclothes men who claimed to be detectives in Patiya upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.