It did not look like a factory or a workplace; rather, it looked like a large compound for confinement. The fire-ravaged plastic factory in Keraniganj, with around 15,000 sqft floor space, had a single gate for entry and exit and no emergency exits whatsoever. It had six large rooms inside, but everyone there had to use that one gate to get out.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan have cancelled their scheduled trips to India.

All of the matches played on the second day of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) were one-sided affairs as Rajshahi Royals and Khulna Tigers romped to easy wins in their respective fixtures at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

The Gambia yesterday said Aung San Suu Kyi’s “silence” over allegations of sexual violence and rape carried out against Rohingya people “says far more than” her words, a day after the Nobel peace laureate defended Myanmar against genocide charges at the UN’s top court.

Violent mobs in India’s northeastern state of Assam torched buildings and clashed with police yesterday, leaving two dead and 11 with bullet wounds, as protests grew over a new citizenship law for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday rejected BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s petition for bail in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.