Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained 11 Rohingya men with 100,000 yaba pills from a fishing trawler on the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

At least 59 "bandits" were killed by a civilian defence force when they attacked a village in northwest Nigeria, security officials and locals told AFP yesterday.

Barely a day after his birth, he found himself in the midst of rumbling bulldozers destroying the little world around him. The next day, the baby, who was yet to be named, and his mother Tanjila Begum, 24, were homeless.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia did not appear before the Special Judge Court-9 for hearing on charge framing in the Niko graft case yesterday.

Malaysia wants the perpetrators of atrocities against the Rohingyas be tried immediately at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation role in the 1971 Liberation war.

At least eight people were injured as a bus and a pick-up van caught fire from a leaking gas pipeline on Mirpur road in the capital's Dhanmondi area yesterday afternoon.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Indian leader Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to increase pressure on countries that fuel terrorism.

Two senior BNP leaders -- Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Moudud Ahmed -- came under fire by the party rank and file at a discussion programme in the capital yesterday for lack of action programmes to free its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

President Vladimir Putin promised Russians rapid improvements in their living conditions as he delivered his annual state of the nation address yesterday under pressure from falling approval ratings.

French President Emmanuel Macron will announce measures to fight a flare-up in anti-Semitism during a dinner with Jewish community leaders yesterday, a day after a spate of hate crimes brought thousands onto the streets in protest.

The radicalised IS teenager Shamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there is no question of allowing her to enter the country Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

A reporter of the Bangla daily Jugantor was arrested in Keraniganj on Tuesday, hours after a case was filed against him and four other reporters of the newspaper under the controversial Digital Security Act.

Three people were killed and seven others injured when a bus collided head-on with a three-wheeler in Lalmonirhat Sadar last night.

Two alleged robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila early yesterday.

A battery-run rickshaw driver was shot dead by unknown miscreants in Narankhia area in Khagrachhari yesterday evening.

Thousands of Muslims raise their hands seeking blessings for mankind as the second phase of Biswa Ijtema concludes with the Akheri Munajat -- on the bank of Turag river in Tongi.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday expressed discontent over the quality of roads as some of them get damaged even after a short spell of rain within two or three months of construction.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent war criminal Delowar Hossain Sayedee's son Masood Sayedee to jail in connection with a case filed under the explosives substances act.

The government cannot disclose the Farashuddin-led committee's investigation report on Bangladesh Bank reserve heist so that probe by the Criminal Investigation Department is not “influenced”, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told parliament last night.