A 12-year-old boy died yesterday after bookshelves of his school library fell on him in Chittagong.

The White House yesterday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in Saturday's violent protest in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.

A schoolteacher was pounded with hammers allegedly by former students of the school in Rajbari's Pangsha on Saturday night.

Post graduation exam schedule for students of the seven Dhaka University affiliated colleges was declared yesterday.

People are gradually losing their trust and confidence in law enforcement agencies due to their “continued involvement in criminal activities,” including custodial deaths and disappearance of detainees, rights activists, academics and lawyers have said.

Irregularities are rife at Gabtoli cattle market as its lessee has been collecting additional charges from meat traders and renting out shops to small traders inside the market illegally.

A week after doctors found a tumour in an artery of her arm, Muktamoni yesterday underwent a successful surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

Abdul Samad Sheikh, the rickshaw-puller who made planting trees his life's mission, died of post-surgery complications in the early hours yesterday.

The Dalai Lama has cancelled a trip next week to Botswana because of "exhaustion" after Beijing expressed anger at the African country

The United States said Friday it holds Cuba responsible for investigating an apparent sonic attack that left several of its diplomats in need

Four soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were killed when their helicopter crashed during a mission in Yemen, the UAE military

A Palestinian woman stabbed and wounded an Israeli man near an east Jerusalem flashpoint on Saturday, before she was arrested,

Law enforcers arrested a convicted war criminal in Kishoreganj yesterday, 15 months after a special tribunal handed death penalty to him and three others for committing war crimes during the Liberation War.

Two villagers were killed and about fifty others injured in a clash over forming a committee to run a local mosque in Habiganj's Bahubal

Chinese leader Xi Jinping yesterday urged US President Donald Trump to avoid rhetoric that could inflame tensions with North Korea as an escalating war of words raised global alarm.

Scientific evidence shows that when a person loses their sense of sight, the other four senses are enhanced, allowing them to be more

Police yesterday arrested two female teachers of a madrasa in Gournadi for whipping an eight-year-old student 160 times and inserting needles under her nails allegedly for stealing Tk 100.

A senior assistant commissioner of the Detective Branch of police and two others were shot when unknown assailants opened fire to escape arrest in the capital's Jurain last night.

Injured Titumir college student Siddiqur Rahman wants the government to punish the policemen who would be found responsible for his eyesight loss.

Two men were arrested yesterday in connection with the alleged gang rape of a baul singer after she was invited to a musical event in Ashulia of Savar on Wednesday.