At least 17 Bangladeshis died in Malaysia's immigration detention centres from various diseases and unknown causes in 2015 and 2016, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat yesterday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from seven years to life imprisonment as Hindu hardliners push for tougher protections for the holy animal.

While celebrities like John Travolta and Tom Cruise are known for piloting their own planes, few world leaders fly themselves on state business, but Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila is one.

Opposition parties in the Maldives accused the government yesterday of waging a revenge campaign against their leaders after they narrowly failed to seize control of parliament.

Rab Intelligence Wing Director Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad died as splinters pierced through his left eye and lodged in his brain, said doctors of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) after conducting his autopsy.

A huge potential of otherwise disadvantaged southern region would be unlocked in a post-Padma Bridge scenario.

Forty-four people were killed in “shootout” with police and Rab in the first three months of this year, up from 32 during the same period last year, said a report of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday.

A bomb apparently targeting a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Parachinar killed at least 22 people yesterday and wounded dozens in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

The death toll from Thursday's trawler capsize in the Meghna river in Sonargaon upazila rose to 10 as six more bodies of women were recovered yesterday.

The global impact of President Donald Trump's plan to unwind US climate change policies is "unclear" and will only emerge over time, the United Nation's top climate official said yesterday.

Gen Bipin Rawat, chief of Indian Army, arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a three-day visit.

France urged its citizens in China to be extra vigilant after a "violent" knife attack on a French national in Shanghai this week, the country's embassy said yesterday.

Six employees of the US embassy in Kabul have been dismissed for using or possessing drugs, an official said, in an embarrassment to Washington which has splurged billions on Afghan counter-narcotics efforts.

Hungary's combative Prime Minister Viktor Orban deepened his row with George Soros yesterday, saying a prestigious Budapest university founded by the US billionaire was cheating students by breaking rules.

Indian airlines will soon offer dirt-cheap fares to dozens of new, regional destinations -- some for the very first time -- as the world's fastest-growing aviation market tries to encourage millions more passengers to the skies.

The French artist who spent a week entombed inside a rock began an even more bizarre feat Wednesday -- sitting on a dozen eggs until they hatch.

Customs department has seized a consignment of clothes similar to the uniform of Myanmar Army along with other items at Teknaf land port in Cox's Bazar.

Six years ago we were camping at Hail Haor in Moulvibazar's Sreemangal to study migratory passerine birds. Although our work involved watching birds early in the morning,

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the tanners to shut down their factories in the city's Hazaribagh and inform it on April 9 about the progress of the closure process.

Transport workers in Tangail began a bus strike Thursday morning without any warning, demanding cancellation of the draft Road Transport Act-2017 approved by the cabinet on Monday.