"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer,” Sir Alexander Fleming would later say famously, “But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”

All mobile phone users will have to re-register their numbers by the end of this year as the government has decided to prepare a new subscribers database to check criminal activities through cellular networks.

Yana (not her real name), 25, from Syria, is mother to two young children, a boy of 11 and a girl of 16 months. For days they have been sleeping in a tent

A Syrian father yesterday buried his wife and his two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while Hungary's leader told Europeans they risk becoming a minority on their own continent.

Shahriar, a SUST student found hanging at a student mess on Thursday night, had received repeated death threats, the last known one

A pir (a revered religious instructor) along with an attendant was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant inside his shrine in Bangla

The Bangladeshis in Libya are living in extreme uncertainty amid persisting violence in the war-torn country. Fearing for their life, many are returning home while some are embarking on risky boat journeys to Europe across the Mediterranean.

It began as a dream to become an independent woman for Shamsunnahar Begum who was frustrated with her life as a domestic help. Squeezing her monthly expenses every day, she managed to gather Tk 41,000 from her wages and bought a cow and a calf. She never had to look back since.

The torrents had just stopped and sunlight filtered through the bright green canopy above, forming columns of light spiraling down to the moist forest floor.

Harrowing pictures of a drowned Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach have sparked global outrage over the human cost of the escalating refugee crisis as Europe stood accused of letting the Mediterranean become a "cemetery" for migrants.

The great majority of Bangladeshis have faith in democracy despite its flaws, says a survey by International Republican Institute. A whopping 81 percent of the respondents agree that despite having problems, democracy is better than other forms of government. Of them, 53 percent strongly and 28 percent somewhat agree with it.

Doctor for the poor Edric Baker was laid to rest beside his hut on the premises of his healthcare centre at Kailakuri in Madhupur upazila of Tangail yesterday.

Heavy rain has deteriorated the flood situation inundating fresh areas in over a dozen districts of the North and the Northeast.

Mahtab Islam was relieved to hear from doctors that they had successfully operated on his 55-year-old mother, Alesa Begum, yesterday morning.

Over a dozen government agencies are involved in maintaining the storm drainage in the capital. Yet the entire system collapses every time it rains, even when moderately, leaving most parts of the city waterlogged and throwing life out of gear.

Just one hour of heavy rains led to the collapse of the capital's traffic system as most of the roads, lanes and bi-lanes were inundated with hundreds of vehicles stranded for hours yesterday, causing immense sufferings to tens of thousands of commuters. Waterlogging compelled many to walk miles after getting off buses stuck in nearly unending tailbacks in all major roads, including the Kazi Nazrul Islam avenue, Mirpur road, Manik Mia avenue, Pragati Sarani.

The mysterious wooden statue Shigir Idol is found to be 11,000 years old, or 1,500 years older than previously believed, according to new tests, making it the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world.

Despite repeated requests from Bangladesh to send him back, the United States granted political asylum to one of the six absconding killers of Bangabandhu a few years ago.

Accompanied by a dozen armed soldiers Major Dalim had stormed into the office of Gen Shafiullah, the then chief of army, in the morning of August 15, 1975.

Aug 15 Early in the morning, some disgruntled army officers lead the pre-planned attack to assassinate and overthrow President