The University Grants Commission (UGC) has said all the public universities should stop conducting evening courses as they harm the image and characteristics of the universities.

Protests paralysed major cities in India’s northeast states yesterday as BJP-led ruling Hindu nationalist government won parliamentary approval for a far-reaching citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution.

At least one worker was killed and 33 others were severely burnt in a fire at a plastic factory in Hijoltola of Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital yesterday afternoon.

The BSMMU yesterday sent a medical report of BNP Chairperson Khaleda to the Supreme Court.

Denial of citizenship to Rohingyas and their systematic deprivation and violation of basic rights by the Myanmar authorities over the decades were not mentioned by any of the lawyers at the ICJ -- making their arguments of genocidal intent weak, analysts said.

Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her government from accusations of genocide against the Rohingya community at the United Nation’s top court yesterday, calling the allegations “incomplete and misleading.”

The Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League kicked off with two contrasting matches on the opening day in Mirpur yesterday, with Chattogram Challengers edging past Sylhet Thunder in a competitive first game and Cumilla Warriors thrashing Rangpur Rangers in the second match under lights.

General Niazi from his safe Cantonment residence proudly says that the Pakistan army would fight for every single inch as long as a single troop lived.

Democrats yesterday unveiled two articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump after weeks of arguing there is overwhelming evidence that the US leader abused his office and deserves to be removed.

Protestors in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads yesterday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.

The 13th South Asian Games came to an end yesterday, bringing the curtain down on the largest multi-discipline sporting extravaganza of the region at the Dasarath Rangasala in Kathmandu.

The arguments presented by the Gambia’s lawyers at the top UN court yesterday were extremely strong to convince the judges to issue provisional measures against Myanmar to stop genocide against the Rohingyas, said a legal expert.

Mass rapes, the burning alive of Rohingya families in their homes and the killing of children were described by The Gambia’s legal team as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the highest UN court yesterday.

Rab yesterday pressed charges against Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, a former Jubo League leader and an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business, in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

Every four years, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council reviews Bangladesh’s human rights situation as part of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

The lower house of the Indian parliament last night passed a controversial bill which will grant citizenship to minorities, except Muslims, fleeing persecution in neighbouring countries.

Bangladesh’s archers swept all 10 gold medals of the 13th South Asian Games, cruising to the title in the four events decided yesterday and in doing so, set a few individual and collective records in Pokhara.

An Ekushey Padak winner and retired Dhaka University physics teacher, Prof Ajoy Roy breathed his last at the intensive care unit of the capital’s Birdem Hospital at 12:35pm yesterday.

By stripping the Rohingyas of citizenship in 1982 and sparking waves of violence since the 70s, Myanmar has created a crisis for which Bangladesh is having to deal with socio-economic burdens, security risks, and diplomatic challenges, analysts said.

A watershed legal battle will take place at the UN’s highest court today to hold Myanmar accountable over the alleged genocide against its Rohingya minorities.