Two masons died of suffocation after they got down into an under-construction water tank in the capital's Gabtoli yesterday, police said.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday criticised the media for what he said was exaggeration in reports on Bangladeshis' deposits in

Unidentified assailants swooped on cultural activists in Narayanganj last evening at Chashara Shaheed Minar after a rally against Rampal

The United States said yesterday it shot down a simulated, incoming intermediate-range ballistic missile similar the ones being

Three cases have been filed against two journalists including a local correspondent of daily Prothom Alo under section 57 of the

The government yesterday recognised 58 more artistes of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra as freedom fighters.

Twenty-one eminent citizens expressed concern over what they said was a vested quarter trying to distract from the incident of

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor yesterday said it had information from top Islamic State group leaders

The Gaza Strip may already be "unlivable", a United Nations official warned yesterday, after a decade of Hamas rule and a crippling Israeli blockade.

Police yesterday could not arrest any of the four Chhatra League leaders, accused of assaulting The Daily Star journalist Arafat

The United States has called on Myanmar to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of

Her parents had been waiting for their 12-year old daughter's death.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Jessore has decided to fell 2,700 trees, many of those century-old, for the widening of

Academic activities in nearly 580 education institutions are being seriously hampered in the northern and northeastern regions due to the ongoing spell of floods.

The High Court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to allow missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali's wife to go to the UK to attend her son's graduation ceremony.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to reinstate to service some of the 1,447 Ansar members who were dismissed following the Ansar mutiny in 1994.

A men-only island in Japan where women are banned and male visitors must bathe naked in the sea before visiting its shrine, has been declared a Unesco World Heritage site.

President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, agreed to meet with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 election campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing three advisers to the White House.

The decomposed bodies of 19 Egyptian migrants were found in the Libyan desert overnight after the truck in which they were smuggled into the country overturned, the Red Crescent said Sunday.

Masked men armed with tear gas robbed around 20 tourists who were waiting for shuttle buses outside a Paris airport hotel at the weekend, sources close to the investigation said yesterday.