The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha is planning to complete the development works of Purbachal New Town project by the end of next year.

Two members of a National Human Rights Commission's fact-finding committee yesterday visited The Raintree Dhaka hotel in Banani where two university students were alleged to have been raped in March.

The director general of the National Academy for Primary Education (NAPE) was killed and five others were injured when their microbus collided head-on with a truck on the Chittagong-Khagrachhari highway in Fatikchhari yesterday.

Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that

More suspected human bones were recovered Saturday from South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry, officials said Saturday, part of a search

The European Union could end up paying a Brexit bill to Britain instead of the other way round, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud

The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner turned himself in Friday after Italy's highest court upheld his 16-year prison

A Tunis court has sentenced Ridha Grira, the last defence minister under ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to six years in jail for

At least 19 people were killed in a crash between a bus and two trucks early Saturday in Kenya, police said.

A bomb exploded next to a convoy of the deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate in the violence-plagued province of Baluchistan

Dewan Atiqur Rahman Ankhi, an alleged organiser of the hate attack on Hindus in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar last year, has been released on bail. He was in jail for about four months.

The cultural affairs ministry in a rejoinder to a report headlined “Brazilian Band: Nine artistes detained at airport”, published in The Daily Star on May 11, said it didn't give permission to the organiser to hold a programme in Dhaka featuring the musicians.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accepted the invitation of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud to a summit to be attended by US President Donald Trump and other world leaders in Riyadh on May 21.

Donald Trump warned his sacked FBI director not to talk to the press yesterday, in a morning Twitter tirade that painted a picture of a president under siege and lashing out.

The High Court directed the Supreme Court registrar general to form a cell to monitor whether trials of cases under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000 are finished in 180 days.

Police arrested seven alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in different parts of Chapainawabganj in the last three days.

A man and his son were beaten to death after a group of attackers swooped on their home with sticks in Thalipara area of Khagrachhari Sadar upazila on Thursday.

A group of Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League men hacked a local Swechchhasebok League leader to death and injured four others at Dulalmundia bazar in Kaliganj upazila Thursday night over establishing supremacy in the area.

The United Nations Committee against Torture y7esterday called on Bahrain to release prominent activist Nabeel Rajab from more than