Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said 495 people have so far been arrested for illegal migration from neighbouring countries.

Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.

Authorities of Kalagasia Union High School in Narayanganj yesterday kept their students lined up on the campus stopping exams to welcome local lawmaker AKM Salim Osman.

The issue of Khaleda Zia’s bail and the oath-taking of the BNP lawmakers-elect are not linked, Awami League acting general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said yesterday.

Czech billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis yesterday said he would not resign if indicted for his alleged role in a two-million-euro EU subsidy fraud.

Police in southern Vietnam have seized more than a tonne of methamphetamine after uncovering a smuggling operation involving at least two Taiwanese nationals and a Vietnamese man, the third massive bust in a week in the communist state.

Clare Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, pleaded guilty Friday to her role in a secretive society of women sex slaves.

Israeli border police yesterday shot and wounded what they said was a Palestinian knife attacker near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

A blind Japanese sailor completed his non-stop Pacific voyage yesterday, local media reported, becoming the first sightless person on record to navigate a vessel across the vast ocean.

A seething President Donald Trump launched a tirade Friday against the “bullshit” Mueller report on how he tried to thwart the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, while a leading Democratic opponent urged his impeachment.

Two teenagers have been arrested over the killing of a journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland, police said yesterday, after a murder that has triggered international condemnation.

The traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police filed 4,729 cases and realised fines of Tk 23.23 lakh in separate drives against traffic rules violators in the capital on Friday.

A spokeswoman for India’s main opposition Congress party resigned yesterday and joined a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, complaining that misbehaviour towards her by male Congress members was ignored.

Congressional Democrats yesterday demanded to see all of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s evidence from his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, as they consider how to use the probe’s findings against President Donald Trump.

Two men were killed in separate “gunfights” in Gazipur and Bogura early yesterday.

A constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one of his associates were held with 990 yaba pills from Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on Thursday evening.

UAE State Minister for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

A ninth-grader attempted to die by suicide allegedly after being raped several times and publicly beaten up by the rapist in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon on Thursday.

An Awami League leader was held with a licensed gun and eight bullets in front of the party’s Bangabandhu Avenue headquarters yesterday afternoon, hours before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined a programme there.

Over 150 employees of Bagerhat sub-registrar and land record offices have been working in a tattered building for the last seven years despite serious risks.