Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has asked private helicopter operators “to be more cautious” after receiving information that choppers were being used for smuggling yaba pills.

Chittagong University has formed a three-member probe body to investigate the “abduction” of a zoology teacher aspirant before his viva voce exam.

Rights group Amnesty International yesterday accused four Nordic countries renowned as bastions of gender equality of having "shockingly high levels of rape" and of failing the victims.

The United States on Tuesday warned Beijing against the use of "force or coercion" on Taiwan after the self-ruling island said that two Chinese fighter jets crossed a traditionally respected maritime line dividing the two sides.

Canada is doing too little to combat climate change, a parliamentary report warned Tuesday, a day after government scientists warned the country was warming at twice the global rate.

The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX plane that crashed last month initially took the emergency steps outlined by the manufacturer but still could not regain control, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.

A South Korean ship has been detained for more than six months on suspicion of violating UN sanctions against the nuclear-armed North, Seoul's foreign ministry said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ousted from his Liberal Party on Tuesday two former ministers whose accusations of political meddling in a prosecution jeopardized his re-election bid.

The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization yesterday warned the US Congress of the threat posed by "a more assertive Russia" to the alliance, including its violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday accused the Congress and the TMC of being sympathisers of Pakistan who wanted to "break the morale" of India's security forces and make them "helpless" in the fight against terror.

The prime accused in the gang rape incident in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila surrendered before a court yesterday.

Two high officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were made officers on special duty (OSD) yesterday on charges of embezzling money and abusing their authority.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl in the district's Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

Lack of due diligence by the customs authorities in Chattogram has resulted in samples of imported goods allegedly being tampered with before testing to dodge taxes.

Workers of different state-owned jute mills yesterday were on their second consecutive day of work abstention in Chattogram and Khulna to press home their nine-point demand, including payment of their arrears.

The financial health of the banking sector is weakening due to rising non-performing loans, a lack of corporate governance and increasing capital shortfall, according to an Asian Development Bank report released yesterday.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha had intended to stage a judicial coup.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed tonight across the country with due respect and religious fervour.

Greece's prime minister yesterday landed in Skopje for a landmark visit to the newly renamed North Macedonia after a decades-long identity row between the two countries.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, just five days ahead of an April 9 Israeli general election, the premier's office said.