The drivers and staff members of BRTC's Joar Sahara bus depot yesterday called off their strike after the authorities assured them of paying all their arrears by August.

Hundreds of people being held at an immigrant detention centre in Australia have gone on hunger strike in a protest against their living conditions, detainees and activists told AFP yesterday.

Hong Kong yesterday unveiled a proposed law to punish anyone who disrespects the Chinese national anthem with up to three years in jail, as Beijing ramps up pressure on the semi-autonomous city to fall into line.

An Israeli ex-minister charged with spying for the country's arch-foe Iran has reached a plea bargain with prosecutors that will see him serve 11 years in prison, the justice ministry said yesterday.

Britain's armed forces were yesterday supporting police at London's Heathrow Airport after a drone sighting led to the suspension of all departing flights for nearly an hour on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people yesterday gathered in Sudan's capital in a show of support for President Omar al-Bashir's embattled regime after deadly anti-government protests erupted across the country last month.

A teenager, who allegedly abducted and killed a fourth grader, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Jashore's Monirampur upazila early yesterday.

The national election of December 30 has turned the life of Mofiz Uddin upside down -- and all for supporting BNP.

Bangladesh has advanced four notches on the latest Democracy Index 2018 of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research and analysis division of The Economist Group.

The mangoes of Chapainawabganj, a delicacy of Bangladeshi summer, are now available amid the chills of winter.

BNP candidate Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan has been elected in Brahmanbaria-2 following yesterday's re-polling in three centres of the constituency.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government would take an initiative to amend the relevant law again to try and punish Jamaat-e-Islami as an organisation for committing war crimes during the Liberation War.

A Dhaka Court today sends 13 Rohingyas to the jail on charges of securing Bangladeshi passports through forgery.

A ninth grader, who allegedly abducted and killed a younger boy, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Jashore's Monirampur upazila early yesterday, hours after he was detained.

Dhaka is utterly disappointed and aggrieved at Myanmar's allegation of existence of Arakan Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) bases in Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly resigned on Monday, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, amid differences with the Trump administration over climate change and the need for more development resources.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday discussed an expected US-North Korea summit in talks in Beijing, Yonhap news agency said, days after Kim warned he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions.

After a walkout by the main opposition Congress Party, the contentious constitution amendment bill seeking to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan was passed by the Lok Sabha (LS) yesterday.

The president of Myanmar and the prime minister of Vietnam yesterday congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her party's landslide victory in the 11th parliamentary polls.

Dozens of Rohingyas have crossed the border into Bangladesh from India in recent days, officials said yesterday, as New Delhi faces censure for deporting the persecuted minority to Myanmar.