Sumaiya woke up to see her parents at a police station yesterday, 24 days after she was kidnapped from her house in the capital's Kamrangichar.

A Chittagong court yesterday handed down jail sentences of four years to three suspended railway (east zone) officials, including General Manager Yusuf Ali Mridha, and fined them Tk 10,000 each in two cases over recruitment irregularities.

They are rarely seen during the day. As darkness falls, they come out of their nests, make a repetitious call which sounds like knocking on wood, flap their wings and try to catch insects.

A Russian naval spy ship yesterday sank in the Black Sea off Turkey's coast after hitting a Togo-flagged vessel packed with livestock but all of its 78 crew were rescued by Turkish coastguards.

Activists in the Maldives say tolerance for dissent is rapidly disappearing after a prominent blogger who denounced Islamist extremism and state corruption was killed on Sunday and the government cracks down on criticism.

A man with headphones pressed in his ears died as a train ran over him at a rail gate in the capital's Khilgaon yesterday.

The Saudi coast guard fired on an unmanned boat rigged with explosives, thwarting an attack on one of the kingdom's oil terminals that

Bangladesh has slipped two notches in the World Press Freedom Index 2017.

India's state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured the export order for setting up of the controversial 1,320MW

A madrasa student was brutally tortured and then threatened by a teacher in Bheramara upazila of the district with more punishment if

A Malaysian boy who was allegedly beaten so severely with a hosepipe at an Islamic school that his legs were amputated has died in

The US military started moving parts of an anti-missile defence system to a deployment site in South Korea yesterday, triggering

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested an improvised explosive device (IED) expert of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)

Acute food crisis prevails in different villages of the remote Sajek union under Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati for the last two to three months where one kilogramme of coarse rice is being sold at Tk 85-90, locals and their representatives say.

Two more persons succumbed to their injuries in the last 24 hours or so following a boiler explosion at a rice mill in Dinajpur sadar

In East and West Amkhawa villages in Jamalpur's Dewanganj upazila, the face of retail commerce is changing. Thanks initially to a

The Dhaka South City Corporation and the Dhaka Wasa are pointing the finger at each other about the waterlogging problem in the capital.

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A large team of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police conducted a block raid on some 350 houses in the city's Haragram Purbopara yesterday

In a rare verdict, the Marine Court in Dhaka yesterday punished a launch company and nine of its staff as it found them guilty of